Guild Wars 2

Hi,

I noticed several bots farming (and yes they are bots, because rangers usually do not “teleport” instead of walking and kill mobs on the same path over and over).

Well, since I read Areanet takes botting serious, I tried:
- reporting them ingame.
- writing mails to exploits@arena.net.

Two DAYS after the first report, the bots still keep farming the same path over and over. Seeing this botting go on for days really is devastating.

So how does this correspond with Arenanet taking botting serious and not updating the sticky thread for two months now?

So long,
Curu…

I have experienced the same thing

Just a heads up, this thread will get locked. You have done all you can, Anet will supposedly do the rest.

You must be new to MMOs.

You don’t just ban bots the moment you see them. If you ban them asap, it’s easy for the programmers to find out the little changes that made their bot detectable. In the long-run you complicate things.

That is why they ban in waves.

If you were here before early November you would have realized how much of a problem bots were. Yes, bots are still here and will always be, IN ANY GAME, but Anet has done a superb job handling them.

I think it takes them some time to prove the reported player is actually a bot. They may have to make sure the bot has a 3rd party program running. If i am hunting in my favorite spots, there are always bots, so i hope the innocent player who is not a bot would not get banned by mistake.

I think they also take some time to verify that the players reported are in fact bots first, to avoid the inevitable backlash if they just took players word for it and made a mistake.