I have been recently concerned about the botting plague that greatly diminishes the value of this otherwise splendid game. According to this thread here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/On-Botting-and-What-We-re-Doing-About-It/first , Arena-net staff claim to be battling the botters and terminating their accounts.
However, about one month later, I seem to be able to prove them disturbingly wrong.
It’s been a week or so, even before the major Halloween update, that I keep seeing the same bots, at the same locations, no matter what time of the day I go there. Allowed by the forums rules or not, I will share some screenshots I took of the bots.
Frostgorge Sound, a bundle of bots continuously killing a Veteran Arctodus. Some of them are even Lv 18 (whilst the map level range is 70-80), with no gear equipped at all, running back and forth around that spot all the time. Screens were taken on Oct 21st, before the update was added.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw009.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw010.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw011.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw012.jpg
Cursed Shore, I keep seeing these 3-6 bots every time I go to that area on the east side of the map.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw015.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw016.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw017.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw018.jpg
Frostgorge Sound, the same bunch of bots, screenshots were taken not longer than 15 hours ago since this was posted.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw019.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw020.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw021.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/991647/gw022.jpg
I would like to request from Arena-net to add bot traps in all the maps and towns, an automated system to spot and suspend botters. I am sure you can do it guys, don’t let these toxic players ruin your awesome game! I no longer wish to automatically suspect a player of botting whenever I see a ranger with a Juvenile Brown Bear… That’s what the majority of these bots use, so I suggest to all other players reading this: monitor their actions whenever you see such ranger, try to talk to them and see if you can get a valid response. If not, report them.
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