The confirmation, which was made in a post on the official North American forums, was posted by Tamat who is part of the NCsoft Community team.

The post was titled ‘Aion Mass Ban v3.1.3′.

This is the third mass-ban that Aion has experienced in the past few months and hopefully the last for our beloved bots as they patch against detection.

AionSZ has already released 2-3 patches since the mass-ban and AionKtz has also patched. MMOBro is also reported to have identified detection issues and will be patching in the next patch.

The process appeared simple, scanning the processes after GM’s sent a packet to the players client and if it returned positive, you were flagged and banned.

It seems they banned in masses, instead of gradually. One’s best bet is that this guarantees that the detection is ‘under wraps’ until the hammer hits the nail, so to speak.

Some days later, the question now; is it safe to use an Aion Bot?

After the first wave and first so-called ‘Anti-Detection’ patches, that was a fair chance after alot of people lost their accounts.

Now more recently a second wave has annihilated yet another rough estimate of 27,000 more accounts. This is going to be hard to forgive.

The only comments after only a few days of these now gaping wounds in the botting community, it seems that there’s been no more bannings after several bots released yet more Anti-Detection patches, such as Aion SZ and Aion Ktz. Hopefully as time passes by there will be no more nasty surprises and the healing process will allow for the botting community to recover.

But one must think; WHY are people botting? The main reason is that Aion is a GRINDFEST. You must spend hours leveling and trying to get enough Kinah, especially at higher levels. This is the main money cow behind MMORPG’s, as we all know, you must pay for the time that you play. Bots are there to allow us to ease this grind and enjoy the game more. NCsoft must realise that to get rid of bots all together, they must make fundamental changes to the game that gives no reason to use auto-tools. Then again, imagine all the money that they make from the new accounts of those who were banned. Damn capitalism.

This means that now both of the top Aion Bots have been patched to counter the detection methods implemented by NCsoft.

AionKtz is the main alternative to popular AionSZ Bot, featuring improved PVP, crafting functionality, and a cheaper price.

You can get AionKTZ Bot from AionKtzBot.com

All AionSZ botters should download version 1.19 immediately to protect themselves.

Hopefully this will give the new anti-bot GM team a more interesting job!

Get AionSZ v1.19 here.

Over 20,000 accounts have been banned so far and counting. It seems they are using some form of detection that can be sent in the form of a packet. This makes all Aion Bots publically available dangerous at this present time. Patches for the bots must come soon.

We will keep you in tabs with which Aion Bots become detection-safe.