The MMORPG Black Desert is undergoing a leadership change: Developer Pearl Abyss will soon self-publish the online role-playing game. To ensure clear transparency, the developers are explaining the actions that can lead to permanent bans. Exploiting bugs or real money trading isn’t sufficient for a permanent ban, but one should definitely keep their hands off the servers. Macros can also be dangerous.
Why is something changing at Black Desert right now? The MMORPG Black Desert has been available in Europe since 2016 and is now released for PC, PS4, and Xbox One. However, it has been distributed by Kakao Games all this time – that’s about to change. The development studio Pearl Abyss will take over the publishing starting February 24, then they will assume “service responsibilities.”
They are anyway aiming for world domination, so it’s a piece of cake to self-publish their hit MMORPG in the West.
The developers have responded immediately, outlining what changes will happen in Black Desert. One aspect is the ban policy. Here, they want to be transparent and clearly tell players what can lead to permanent bans.
Macros and everything related to the servers are dangerous
What leads to permanent bans in Black Desert? Pearl Abyss states: The following offenses can lead to permanent account suspensions. In particularly severe cases, they even threaten with “IP and hardware” bans:
- Account theft, payment theft, and identity theft – Stealing accounts or account data will be punished with the harshest penalties. Even if one gains access to someone else’s payment methods, a permanent ban is imminent.
- Fiddling with the data – Anyone who tamper with Pearl Abyss’s data in any form will be banned. This also applies to individuals who attempt to extract non-public data.
- Attacks on the server or client manipulation – Anyone attacking Pearl Abyss’s servers will receive a permanent ban. Anyone who misbehaves on the servers is liable.
- Botting – Anyone using multiple accounts through a system to gain an advantage will be banned. This also applies if the account was part of a bot network.
- Crimes – Anything that is legally prohibited can lead to a permanent ban – especially if third parties (such as the police) investigate.
- The creation of unauthorized programs and macros – Distributing programs and macros that disrupt server protection or interrupt normal operation can lead to bans. This point is broadly defined: If the company’s systems register that “unauthorized” programs and macros are being used, a permanent suspension of the account is threatened.
Cheating and exploiting result in “only” temporary bans
What are less severe offenses? Pearl Abyss also lists a number of offenses that they apparently don’t find quite as severe and will only penalize with “warnings” and “temporary bans.” These include:
- Fraud – For example, pretending to be a Game Master
- The trade of real money
- Exploiting bugs
- Gaining unfair advantages by being in a group or guild with a cheater
- Cheating
- Boosting
- Spreading false information
- Gambling
- Abnormally using the market to transfer silver from account to account
- Price manipulation
- or using an inappropriate name, whether it is offensive or pretending to be a Game Master
Pearl Abyss announces that they will use a special program “Pearl Protect” to identify users of macros who go overboard. They aim to bring this to the EU/North America.
Black Desert is an MMORPG notorious for allowing many players to play AFK, as one can progress in-game without actually playing. Players often do this using macros. Some new measures seem to be aimed at combating this.
Black Desert rewards AFK players – That’s the problem with Asian ports
