Guild Wars 2

I was doing a search today to see if I could find anything about what ANet is doing about botting. I did an internet search, and I was suprised at how many sites there are that tell you how to bot, and provide the tools to do it with. I actually had to reword my search several times before I got hits for what is being done regarding bots.

I would think that ANet would take it more serious because if somebody can buy gold from a spammer or run their own bot to farm gold, why would they pay ANet cash for the gems to convert to gold or other uses. It means money out of their pockets.

Its easy and cheap…. its tempting.

Irnhide, you hit my second point on the head. It is too easy and cheap to go around ANet to purchase things. If ANet wants to make money off of their gems cash sales, they need to make it less easy and less tempting.

ANet takes Botting seriously. Just look at the 1st sticky in this forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/On-Botting-and-What-We-re-Doing-About-It/page/13#post377170

You didn’t need to do much searching to find that out. How much more serious can they be with hundreds of bannings daily and taking enough care to make sure they protect the innocent?

DirtyDeeds.6075:

ANet takes Botting seriously. Just look at the 1st sticky in this forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/On-Botting-and-What-We-re-Doing-About-It/page/13#post377170

You didn’t need to do much searching to find that out. How much more serious can they be with hundreds of bannings daily and taking enough care to make sure they protect the innocent?

LOL you are joking right? Anet is doing as little as possible because more bots equals more copies of the game sold. I see far more bots now then I did when they first posted that sticky.

I’ve now gave up reporting bots as the same ones just keep appearing for weeks on end as it seems anet are doing sod all about this problem, I expected with the halloween update the banhammer would have hit them hard, but alas no, they’re back again

Its not just the bots they need to deal with. its the account that these bots are farming for, they are not stupid enough to keep all the items and gold on the bots account. Since the halloween patch the bots have returned in force, even more than there was before the patch.

flyinpoons.6481:
LOL you are joking right? Anet is doing as little as possible because more bots equals more copies of the game sold. I see far more bots now then I did when they first posted that sticky.

LOL You are kidding right?
The number of bots you see in the game has nothing to do with ANets motivation to sell more games. I could argue that banning more bot accounts would get them more game sales.

flyinpoons.6481:

DirtyDeeds.6075:

ANet takes Botting seriously. Just look at the 1st sticky in this forum:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/On-Botting-and-What-We-re-Doing-About-It/page/13#post377170

You didn’t need to do much searching to find that out. How much more serious can they be with hundreds of bannings daily and taking enough care to make sure they protect the innocent?

LOL you are joking right? Anet is doing as little as possible because more bots equals more copies of the game sold. I see far more bots now then I did when they first posted that sticky.

You have no idea how the botters and gold sellers work.

They don’t purchase copies of the game… what do you think happens to all of those accounts that are ‘hacked’? They are used to bot and spam gold selling messages in chat.

Try educating yourself before making such ridiculous statements.

The best way for ANet to make money is to sell decent items with good value.

flyinpoons.6481:

Anet is doing as little as possible because more bots equals more copies of the game sold.

Aside from the fact that some BOTS are from hacked accounts, you’re logic is still flawed. If you buy the game, BOT, and then banned…you don’t get your money back they keep it.

You just wasted your money and time.
They have nothing to lose from banning a Botter who already gave them his money.

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback, it’s appreciated. We are taking such issues very seriously, and it’s one of our top priorities at the moment. Our team is working very hard to find the best way to solve this.

But as we explained, we want to give you an update about that only when everything will be setup, not before.

Thank you for your understanding & patience.