Guild Wars 2

Is it sad that I’m playing my ranger in cursed, doing a T6 gathering run, which is the only reason I ever go there, and I help someone fight a few mobs at an ori node, and the guy says, “wow, a ranger that isn’t a bot”

I swear, I feel nervous in several places in orr zones or frostgorge when I’m on my ranger, because I’m passing thru a highly botted area or a botswarm of ranger bots, and I’m scared that somebody might report my character.

Now, ANet says they’re banning bots, and I somewhat believe them, because I’m seeing some different names and not seeing some names I’ve seen for the past 2 months. I have amazing powers of observation and memory and it’s not like detecting or tracking bots takes more than 1 functional brain cell since it’s all painfully obvious.

But for every bot that’s removed, it seems like a new bot replaces it immediately. The same spots and same bot swarms are going nonstop.

I’d say a tiny bit of damage has been done because now I’m starting to see lvl 50/60 bots in orr zones – bots powerleveling other bots – which is even more ridiculous – botters taking game abuse to all new levels.

But the problem really hasn’t diminished a whole lot and there’s a LOT more work to be done. If they banned 10000 bots recently, they still need to do that several more times over.

And I still contest that while banning the bot accounts should be done, the real problem is people who cheat and buy 3rd party gold or accounts, and banning players who don’t deserve to play online games should be the priority. Kill demand, and bots and spam get reduced.

It’s like ANet is digging a hole in the middle of a sandbox. Dig, and more sand just slides in and fills the hole. But please ANet, keep doing what you’re doing and more, and please, not only do I want to see that you’re banning botters, I want to see the “we banned 5000 gold buying cheaters” message.

haha. I would be sure to have out a really weird pet when passing ranger trains if I were you.

I feel the same way, then again it’s our lot in life as Ranger, Archer, Hunter, players. No matter what MMO we play, our class of choice is always the top class that bots use.

As LameFox pointed out, my bear is on what appears to be a permanent vacation from my ranger’s pet rotation purely because that’s now the stereotype for a bot.

as long as your name isn’t ek.awdj i won’t report you :P

Some of them have pretty normal-ish names, which I assume are hacked accounts. Others have eerily similar normalish names, which I assume is a self-defeating attempt at not looking like bots. If I’m not sure I’ll just stand there and ask them. I figure most normal rangers would say something, even if it’s just the equivalent of ‘I don’t speak your language, random person.’

ANet does NOT ban people because someone reported botting. They investigate people for it. At no point will you even know the investigation happened. They will simply look at your activity, see that you are inf act a persona and not a bot due to your actions, and move on. Do not worry, you will not be blasted falsely just bc someone stereotypes you.