Guild Wars 2

There are bots everywhere, hundreds of them, especially in the level 75-80 zones. It’s nuts, I think there may be more bots than actual players.

PLEASE address this problem. They are SO easy to spot.. I report them every chance I get, but it’s getting incredible…

I actually agree. the time for “studying” them is over, let’s start banning every one of them because while they might not be bothering me all that much they’re scaring away the actual players whom I enjoy playing with.

I have only seen one bot. Makes me wonder if they have favorite servers.

I took some images today of at least 20 stacked bots all standing still and spamming attacks in slightly altered directions (effectively creating a circle). I couldn’t even report more than one because they were stacked so that you could only target the top one and they all had long 20-30 character names that were randomized (like isdjwerjweljdshfljewrew).

ANet needs to be proactive. They are asking us to do impossible tasks now (report all bots), while we have absolutely no power other than to keep asking them to do something about the situation. It should not be on us, the players, to be dealing with this when we have absolutely no power over anything.

And based on traversing the lands today, the bots are becoming more and more numerous. I’m now finding actual guilds botting (players I see in WvW and I know play the game are starting to join in on the trains). Furthermore, it’s turned into this massive joke where people I know have started botting because “if you can’t beat them, join them.”

As ANet sits idly by and does whatever they are “doing,” they are losing more and more people to the botters (due to those that are quitting and those that are now starting to bot as well).

Just to add in, “watching” them does no good. It takes less than 7 days from when a farmer starts a new account until they’re already making profit. That means from the second they start their new account, if you take more than 7 days to rid of them, they have won and will continue getting new accounts to bot. As long as they are making money, they will stay.

coglin, go to Devona’s Rest

It shows as High on the server selection screen while the actual player base is Low. Roughly 50-60% of all characters on the server are bots. It’s a terrible situation and the server is often times quite “dead”. As soon as they make it so I can transfer off without losing all my guild’s influence, I will be saying peace out to DR.

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