Guild Wars 2

The stickied Bot Thread here has been closed for three weeks with no updates….Bott’ing in this game has been getting worse by the day….in some areas there are now more Bots active than Players and Enemies combined!!

The sheer number of bots makes it so that you can’t even “see” the enemy mobs at times, not to mention affects fps. Local/Map chat has people yelling at other people for res’ing Bots and people upset for not being res’d as ppl though they were a Bot, not to mention numerous racial/nationality based conflicts over who’s behind most the bots.

All in all its a total mess and getting worse….Anet says…

“What we don’t want to do is have someone report you as botting, we ban the account, the bot appeals, and we have no data to prove they were botting on file so we have to give them the account back. Ensuring we have 100% clear data on bots that’s incredibly easy for our GM team to quickly verify, and when an appeal is submitted verify within seconds if the person was truly botting is our most important goal. We don’t want to ban people who were not botting, and we want to keep the people who are permanently locked out.

Bottom line: We’re doing ok, but we know we can and need to do much better on this front and are putting massive resources behind ensuring we have a permanent solution to this issue"

Well if you think you are “doing ok” then you need a quick sharp reality check…try playing the game…you are not “doing ok”, the situation is “Not Acceptable”…nothing “ok” about it.

You have a GM team? whats does your acronym mean? Not what I or the gaming community are used to surely…I have never seen a GM in game, have no way of contatcing one in game nor seen evidence of their work in game….we have dozens of bots sitting at locations round-the-clock , sticking out like sore thumbs…be an easy job for a GM to identify them (unless he/she is blind/a bot/or non-existant).

So how about…

(1) Keeping the communication lines open with regular updates on this (and other) cirtical matters

(2) Acknowledge that the situation is “Not Acceptable”, therefore “not ok”, nor are you “doing ok”

(3) Getting a solution in place in a “timely” manner…no excuses around “second guessing” or “ensuring it works in an effective and efficent manner”.