Guild Wars 2

I just took a walk through Queensdale and it didn’t take long before I saw the first botter followed by many many more bots, I decided to follow those bots I saw in the current area and reported them. Then I took a walk to another close area and again I saw the first bot teleporting around followed by many many more bots.

I had seen some bots before and remembered the names and reported them but they are still in the same exact spot doing the same exact thing, is reporting even effective then?

Also when we report and ArenaNet receives that and confirms for themselves that the respective player is botting I would like to make the suggestion:

To permanently lock down that account

I find the botting issue to be highly annoying, I remember it being bad in GW1 with the 55HP Monks but this is also starting to get a little ridiculous.

I have video footage of it incase proof is needed but haven’t upped it on YouTube yet.

Punish them ArenaNet and punish them hard.

1. Botting is relatively easy to spot by the human eye (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEM8LpD8kL4 – my most recent report to exploits@arena.net)
2. It’s fairly easy for a GM to ban a player
3. There’s an overwhelming amount of botters right now
4. ANet’s immediate response to the botting problem gives the appearance that they aren’t responding to the issue fast enough.

The only conclusion I can come up with from these factors is that they’re genuinely investigating a solution to implement an automated “banhammer of justice” that requires little GM involvement; the alternative is that they go down the path of manually investigating and banning the population of those who actually are botting, which can be a very resource (read: money) intensive solution.

I’d also like to assume that they’re taking this time to watch and effectively dissect these tools the botters are using.

So if we don’t see a swift and immediate reaction to our reports of botters, let’s just assume that ANet is devising a tremendously spectacular solution to reliably “ban the crap” out of anyone who so much as thinks about it.

We can sure as heck gripe about it next month if ppl are still botting, though.

it’s an ncsoft game. one thing you learn playing ncsoft games long enough(i’ve been doing so for 8 years) is unlike most other companies’ games, botters know that ncsoft won’t bother with them directly, so they can feel confident to bot out in the open.

any other game, they’d rarely be seen in public, but this is ncsoft we’re talking about, so botters know the GM staff will just punish legit players in increasng “anti bot measures” rather than deal with bots directly.