Guild Wars 2

I have video proof of this alleged “botting” guild . We failed another Vine Wrath because these botters get around the system by spamming 1 just enough to stay active then afking. Obvious when I was watching and as I predicted they went into the boss at South died and stayed, got rezzed and went back on the cliff. (AFK cliff) at south. It’s just frustrating because they scale the events and often times cause a fail. Yet they still get rewards and they move just enough to not get kicked or not be obvious unless you pay attention. How can we prevent this? As a player, I cannot report them because they are active enough that it would flag me for false reporting. So I recorded a video. We need a call GM button or something where an admin can be there in 5 min or something and just watch. Everyone that saw them noticed it, they were 4 originally 6 but two disappeared after I said I was recording. They moved in a very painfully computerized or macrod way, spent 90% of the time dead or afk in the same spots, and disappeared when confronted except for the one time on the recording 3/4 responded when I said say hi to Twitch. I mean really this stuff ruins the game for those trying to play for real. I’m almost certain if they were indeed bots those were stolen accounts. The leader would move 1-2sec later 2nd would move another 1-2sec 3rd would move, ect. Staying the same distance from each other while “parked”. Just frustrating. I will post a link to the video if a gm or someone wants to see it. Myself, and several other people on the map believed them to be bots with out a doubt.

I would advise removing the guild tag/name from your post, as naming and shaming isn’t allowed.

Lazaar.9123:

I would advise removing the guild tag/name from your post, as naming and shaming isn’t allowed.

good call thanks

When you make content for people who are not worried about having fun, and instead want rewards as fast as possible and as easily as possible – aka “grind”, aka basically what Silverwastes is all about – you will get those who exploit it to get what they want without having to endure the content.

It’s a game flaw more than the guild’s flaw. If ArenaNet didn’t want people to do this kind of thing, they could have made a map in which the focus isn’t to grind.

Test.8734:

When you make content for people who are not worried about having fun, and instead want rewards as fast as possible and as easily as possible – aka “grind”, aka basically what Silverwastes is all about – you will get those who exploit it to get what they want without having to endure the content.

It’s a game flaw more than the guild’s flaw. If ArenaNet didn’t want people to do this kind of thing, they could have made a map in which the focus isn’t to grind.

Yeah, just 3 Vw fails in a row, 3 hours wasted. Gets under your skin. I know it’s the games flaw, never blamed the guild, could be an innocent guild with 4-6 stolen accounts. the fact they were in a guild isn’t important, the fact they cause fails because of scaling and not helping is the frustrating part. Vw is soo easy, I mean the only time you lose is when you have 20+ afk tabbed out or botting. Also I am well aware most games Runescape, WoW, Gw1, Gw2, Maplestory, wtf ever game has botting and farming. It’s stupid and when it hinders completion of the game they should be removed.

Here is a link to a Dev response about reporting ‘cheaters’: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Ingame-GMs-do-they-exist/page/2#post4573182

Good luck.

How is the game Flawed just cause some people manage to bot, or cheat, or exploit some things. You can try to make a perfect game, but people will always find ways to abuse that content, and exploit every thing possible.

Stop blaming the game, end the hate towards the game. Play the game don’t make war!

Hashtag Play the game stop violance againt the game!

On a more serious note, i think that if a certain number of people report the same characters at the same time, with proof(screenshots, videos, explanations) ANET will take action. They may leave some bugs for weeks into the game(STILL WAITING FOR THAT CHALLANGE MOLE ARENA NET….ANY TIME YOU ARE READY) but they never agreed such things, gold sellers, botting, cheating…etc

Akagami.9861:

How is the game Flawed just cause some people manage to bot, or cheat, or exploit some things. You can try to make a perfect game, but people will always find ways to abuse that content, and exploit every thing possible.

Stop blaming the game, end the hate towards the game. Play the game don’t make war!

Hashtag Play the game stop violance againt the game!

On a more serious note, i think that if a certain number of people report the same characters at the same time, with proof(screenshots, videos, explanations) ANET will take action. They may leave some bugs for weeks into the game(STILL WAITING FOR THAT CHALLANGE MOLE ARENA NET….ANY TIME YOU ARE READY) but they never agreed such things, gold sellers, botting, cheating…etc

Well, I may have come off as hating on Gw, but this game saved my life and helped me get through cancer without losing my mind(gw1). I know this isn’t a perfect game, as much as I want it to be. There has to be a better way of dealing with this trash polluting this awesome game. Not trying to start a “flame war”, just trying to figure out what we can do as a community to help keep this from happening. GW2 has one of the best communities in gaming, I know we can figure out some way to better and more efficiently remove bots and tabbers. What about all those new players that just recently joined after the last sale. Probably just getting to end game content. Then they try to do Sw and get fails because the content has been out so long its filling with bots and leechers. Unfortunately there are still people, like myself, that still try Sw and would like to get easy wins, as it should be because we know the tactics, and make money and get mats that way. Botting by harvesting trees and ore, that doesn’t effect game progress. Leeching, scaling, and afking especially in the sw is inhibiting game progress.

livestrongbp.9654:

I’m almost certain if they were indeed bots those were stolen accounts. The leader would move 1-2sec later 2nd would move another 1-2sec 3rd would move, ect. Staying the same distance from each other while “parked”.

Sounds like someone with multiple clients running and swapping between them. Running a “multibox” setup would have them moving at the same time. There is really nothing that says to me that this is a bunch of stolen accounts either. $10 sale a month ago. Someone can easily have a couple accounts running with 3rd party software and as long as they follow the “1 click = 1 action” rule they are within the rules set out. Somewhere a dev addressed the “multiple accounts running on the same computer” issue.

Try to focus just on the observed facts and report them to ANet. In the end, it’s up to the company to decide if that group is playing legit (and perhaps poorly) or if they are involved in any sort of behavior that violates the Terms of Service.

I realize you saw something that bothers you and that you think (with good cause) is bad for the game. But there’s really nothing more you can do except to give as much data as possible to ANet to make it easy for them to investigate and act.

In the future, don’t tell suspected ‘cheats’ that you are recording them; just record and report. Ideally, an ANet employee can respond quickly and get to observe the ‘suspects’ in-game.

Just to be clear: I do appreciate the effort that you are making to keep the game better for everyone. My advice is about helping you get the most out of all the work you are putting in.