Guild Wars 2

Not sure if my title fits my post or is this the right place to post this topic but I need to ask all the GW2 players here this question;

How many of us feel safe while playing GW2 this past few weeks? (As in just farming for mats/ leveling alts/ WvW/ etc. and nothing such as botting or real-world money trading)

I for one, don’t feel safe at all now, not after reading what happened to all the legit players being banned for playing GW2 legitly. Just last week, my best friend got banned on account of “real-world money trading”. I would have personally reported him if he really did such a thing but the problem here is he never did any real-world money trading!! He was PERMANENTLY BANNED for something he didn’t do. He did get some reply for the ticket that he sent but the answers were all the same. “Banning decision is final and all other inquiries about the account will be closed without a response”. Being wrongfully banned just kills the mood to play GW2. Every step I take in-game, I feel like Anet’s botting system is creeping behind me trying to ban me for something I never did.

So I ask all you people who view this post, do you actually feel safe while playing GW2? Or do you feel like the axe is gonna fall anytime and permanently ban you without a solid reason or evidence?

I also was falsely accused for botting and got pemanent banned for it. After 5 days intense waiting i got my account restored.

And don’t think it was easy to do so. I don’t know what the hell is going on, but either botters or someone else is heavily abusing ligitemate players.

One of my friends is still banned, and i won’t set one foot in Cursed Shore. But what i think is that hardcore farmers were taken with a bot sweep, which they claim was not done automate, and i find that very hard to believe.

On a related note, I’ve also discovered that the reason we’re not getting spam email any more isn’t because they’re banning the senders or that they have some clever algorithm filtering email communications; they simply aggressively decreased the number of mails you can send before you can’t send any more. Doing dungeons recently and looking to distribute potions to my party, I found I couldn’t send more than TWO emails before not being allowed to send any more. Nothing clever or pro-active, just the laziest, dirtiest fix applied with no discretion.

I agree that it is disconcerting no less. I wonder if people arent abusing the report button on people they dont like ect.
Anet went from one extreme to the other with bots – having so many and playing catch up that legit people got caught up in the sweep. There are still tons of them and I expect that this will continue to happen just try and take precautions like log out and take breaks frequently.
Then there is all this ascend stuff now that is blowing up I hate to be at Anet HQ these days I doubt it is fun and games.