The newest twist on botting — BOT BUBBLES. 10-15 bots will stack on each other and auto attack everything that spawns w/in their attack range, pulling them to their bubble and then dropping aoe and traps to kill them. You see them all over lvl 80 zones… and the bots are often only lvl 15-20. I have played a lot of MMO’s over the last 10 years, but I have never seen a game with such blatant, widespread, serious botting going on, and for it to get this bad in such a short time since release is very scary. It’s like they are just thumbing their noses at Anet and every legit player in the game. You cannot go anywhere in the game world without having to compete with them for kills and resources.
Not to mention what this is doing to the game economy, and how much worse it will get in the future if this isn’t stopped now. The REASON they lvl up innumerable crews of max level characters is so they can safely farm items in high lvl zones, to generate game currency to sell online for real cash, and to do that, they flood the TP with cheap easily farmed items (the stuff you and I would normally sell to make gold), gutting those prices. At the same time, they drive UP the prices of the rare drops they get. This is how ALL gold selling operations have always hijacked every game economy they are allowed to flourish in. I have seen it a half dozen times, and it will happen to GW2 also if the trend continues. People who don’t see the harm in it, or worse yet, buy gold online, are hastening the end of the very game they play.
Please please PLEASE, Anet, do something SERIOUS about this. You are going to be losing a lot of players if this is allowed to continue.
