In Black Desert, 574 people have been banned for using fishing bots, while AFK fishing is actually allowed and even intended in the game.
As a newcomer playing Black Desert, you quickly notice how friendly Black Desert is towards AFK players. There are several mechanisms in the game that explicitly encourage it when Black Desert is running, but the player is not sitting at the computer:
- Employees continue to follow their routes and routines as long as you are logged in, thus generating passive income
- the player can also cover distances on a mount and thereby improve their mount’s skills
- and it is even possible to fish AFK and increase your skill while making a bit of money
This AFK-friendliness of Black Desert is due to the game’s origin: It comes from South Korea, where it is played in internet cafes, and developers benefit from having their game running hour after hour, regardless of whether someone is sitting there.
The AFK-friendliness does have its limits.
AFK is allowed, but botting offers advantages
AFK fishing is significantly slower and less efficient than “real fishing.” Therefore, it seems that players with flexible moral standards have recently switched to fishing with a bot – which goes much faster.
Fishing in Black Desert is linked to various important economic systems. As comments on MMO sites indicate, fishing bots have primarily been used to catch high-quality fish worth around 300,000 silver. There was also the chance to fish a relic that can be sold for over 1 million silver.
In the Black Desert forum, the news has now emerged that 574 owners of such fishing bots have been banned. They took extra time to ensure that all bans are justified and can withstand scrutiny.
Fishing is an important part of the economy in item upgrades
Many users in the forum are pleased about this ban because they do not like it when players gain advantages in this way.
However, there are also critical voices blaming Black Desert for artificially creating a scarcity of certain resources in the “Memory Fragment” area and thus “Artisan’s Memory,” which should drive players to certain items in the cash shop. This is about the upgrading of high-end items.
These are interlocked cycles in the endgame of Black Desert: Fishing provided important resources, which are now threatened to become scarcer.
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