Guild Wars 2

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Your original post in On Botting and What We’re Doing About It:
You’d think anet would realize by now that silence just creates mistrust and PR problems. They sure made a big deal about how much they cared about the game before release, but once it’s out and things start going to kitten we get a vague “we;re working on it” and weeks later the problem has grown to an epidemic and all we get is silence. I feel terrible for the members of the team who actually do care about the game, but it’s clear that they’re in the minority.
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After contacting the forums@arena.net and recieving no response on this and other messages, I am making this post. While the above post could be considered antaganostic, it was largely meant to be because it’s obvious that concilliatory responses are ignored out of hand, I believe my post made a meaningful contribution to the topic. In a topic about what Anet is doing about botting, I believe that discussing the complete abyss of information from their end is extremely important. Arenanet simply needs to stop redacting opinions they disagree with, this is not acceptable.

Fact of Life: ANet is not going to disclose their methods for handling bots because in doing so, they give the bot-users knowledge on how to avoid detection / termination.

ANet isn’t deleting posts that they disagree with, CCs are deleting posts that are unnecessarily antagonistic or proliferate the type of community they don’t want on these forums. Making a thread like this is, well, exactly the sort of thing they don’t want.

yep they aren’t going to explain how they detect bots automatically, that’s fine. That’s a perfect explanation for the more advanced bots that exist out there. However the vast majority of the bots infesting the game are not advanced enough for that to begin to matter. Botting is a serious problem, it’s kittening up the game, and we hear “don’t worry we’re working it.” weeks pass and nothing happens, more people leave and still silence. I understand you can’t ever fix the botting problem, you can make it non-profitable however, and that starts by not giving them free reign for months to profit.

What silence? That thread was started by ArenaNet themselves. They have already told us they’re working hard on it, what more do you want them to do? Even if they came out right this second and said ’we’re working on it’, it wouldn’t change anything. There was absolutely nothing constructive in your post, contrary to what you’d like to believe. And then to say " I feel terrible for the members of the team who actually do care about the game, but it’s clear that they’re in the minority" is downright asinine and you deserve more than just the removal of the post if you ask me.

yes it was started by anet, look at their responses, one a few weeks ago saying they’re working on it, and one today saying to not list names, bot problm has grown exponentially since then. In response to what I want them to do it’s simple, hire one person per few servers at minimum wage for one week and ban the obvious bots, if there’s any doubt move on. You can’t eradicate botting, all you can try and do is make it not profitable. Every one of their major updates(DR which doesn’t affect camping in one event, rotating nodes that bots can just teleport to) has benefitted them.