Updated: May 19, 2026

Arkheron is a competitive game with a global community. At Bonfire Studios, we hope to  ensure this game and community are held to a standard that makes Arkheron an experience people can enjoy, compete in, and grow with, while maintaining an environment that is fair and safe. 

As the game and players evolve, so will this Code of Conduct - our goal with these standards is to try and make Arkheron a fun and rewarding community for players across the globe. Please review the below carefully. It’s up to all of us to help make Arkheron an enjoyable experience.

Competitive & Fair Play

Competitive integrity is key to keeping Arkheron a fair and fun game for all players. Cheating, tampering with systems, inhibiting normal gameplay, and/or influencing the player ecosystem for certain outcomes will not be tolerated and will be met with severe consequences. We use a mix of complex automated systems and real humans to detect instances of game violation and cheating (up to and including banning player accounts). 

Here are examples that will result in sanctions and punishments:   

• Using third party software to alter or interfere with the game/mechanics, creating/using automations that aren’t original to the game, and/or altering/modding the game in any way that wasn’t created or intended by the developers (things like botting, scripting, etc.). 

• Interference with competitive play like stream sniping, leaving, match fixing, win trading, feeding/inting, intentionally going AFK, etc.).

• Actions or interference with the matchmaking and/or the ranked system such as deranking, hitchhiking, queue dodging, etc.). 

• Behavior or actions that interfere with and negatively impact the player ecosystem such as griefing, sabotaging, smurfing, etc.).

Punishments can apply if you cheat OR if those you party with cheat. Being ‘smarter than the system’, ‘taking advantage of circumstances’, or ‘exploiting existing mechanics’ is not competing or winning in Arkheron. It’s cheating - don’t do it. 

• Want to report a vulnerability or exploit? You can do that HERE

Fun & Respectful Play

We made Arkheron for anyone and everyone that wants to play it, and we want to foster an environment with that goal in mind. If a player perpetuates behavior that our studio wouldn’t tolerate in person, we won’t tolerate it in the community or game.

In-game communication in team voice channels, in text, and posting in our Discord are all considered public spaces that are moderated. We use a combination of complex automated systems and real humans to detect violations of our behavioral code in these spaces. 

Here are examples that will result in sanctions and punishments (up to and including banning player accounts):   

• Language or behavior that includes hate speech, slurs, insults, harassment or bullying

• Threatening violence or harm to self or others; posting or sharing content that glorifies or incites violence.

• Targeting groups or communities of people through speech or content (e.g. religions, orientations, race, class, ability, etc.)

• Spamming, scamming, redundant posting, and/or unnecessary and consistently bothersome communication

• Content, harassment, jokes, and/or language that is sexual in nature, including any content that implies sexualization, trafficking, or exploitation of minors (Arkheron is rated ‘T for teen’ and will have players under the age of 18)

• Sharing private information about yourself or anyone else (location, career, real name, etc.; also known as ‘PII’, Personally Identifiable Information)

• Impersonation of anyone other than yourself. Deception or insinuation that you represent someone else or group that you don’t (e.g. developers, mods, law enforcement, account personnel, etc.) 

• Promoting or engaging in terrorism, extremism, or illegal activity such as gambling, illegal drug use, phishing, human trafficking, prostitution, doxing, swatting, etc.

• Unauthorized use of another company’s intellectual property including software, music, art, and/or copyrighted, trademarked, patented materials or trade secrets.

• Disobeying, antagonizing, harassing, or ignoring moderators, player support agents, or developers.

Want to report a player for any of the above? You can do that HERE. 

Consequences

Actions that break the Code of Conduct will result in penalties. There are a series of penalties ranging from a warning, to restrictions in gameplay, and ultimately account banning for the above violations. Egregious behavior on one occasion can result in a banned account, while numerous minor infractions can have scaling sanctions or punishments. 

Some of these include:

• Warnings – cautionary messages from support or mods

• Suspensions – time-based suspension of play

• Feature Restrictions – temporary limitation or loss of access to specific features, like in-game chat, text, or other communication features

• Banning- permanent account suspensions of a single account or a player’s device, resulting in a permanent suspension of any and all accounts on that machine

Actively creating other accounts or attempting to change your existing account to evade sanctions or bans will result in an immediate ban of newly created accounts and a permanent ban on your primary account

Since we do use automated systems and real humans, there is indeed the potential for mistakes. 

• If you want to dispute a report or violation, you can do that HERE

Glossary of Terms

Away From Keyboard (AFK): when a player is “Away From Keyboard” when they are expected to be playing. This can be accidental or intentional. 

Botting/Hacking: When someone uses 3rd party systems, software or hardware to level-up their account, unlock content/cosmetics, or otherwise to artificially generate progress instead of playing to earn it.

Boosting: Intentionally losing games with the intent to lower your ranking (also known as ‘Deranking’). This also applies to higher skilled players using or sharing accounts to improve a less skilled player’s ranking. 

Griefing: when someone intentionally ruins the game for others via annoyance, harassment, bad play, or generally causing chaos/disruption. 

Hate Speech: language that targets who someone is because of their race, gender, identification, ability or other categories that are protected.

Intentionally Feeding / Inting: when an ally dies intentionally to increase the strength of the enemy team or sabotages themselves/ their team in any way to help another team.

Leaving: when a player intentionally leaves a lobby or a match in order to avoid a game or end a game they think they will lose.

Match-Fixing: When players collude to change the outcome of a match (also known as ‘Win Trading’.

Party: to join up with other players and form a team 

PvP: ‘Player vs. Player’

Scripting: when a player uses third party systems, software, or hardware to take automated actions in games (auto-attacking, auto-aiming, etc.) 

Smurfing: when a high skilled player deliberately attempts to circumvent/manipulate matchmaking systems in order to win against less-skilled opponents.

Stream Sniping: when a player abuses their viewership of a live streaming channel or event to negatively impact a game including cheating in game, disrupting play, hijacking a stream, or other malicious behavior.