Guild Wars 2

I’ve made a few posts re: bots getting out of hand and other subjects, but I’ve been proven wrong quite roundly after logging in recently.

On Piken Square there are very, very few bots left indeed.

Hats off to ANet, and please pass on my thanks and sincerest apologies.

You’ll take your apology back over the next month as the bots show up again, then reissue it after they get rid of them again.

That’s nothing against you, but this is a neverending process. So just be patient.

I have seen a huge improvement (reduction) in the number of bots. I recently walked through some DE areas that had been plagued by bots, and they were completely bot free. In fact, the DE started when we were there, and the other players and I actually got beat down kinda hard sans bots.

I reported a pack of 12 bots yesterday… log in today… same ones are still there in the exact spot farming mobs and an event in the same area.

Yes the bots are being banned but they are just being replaced as fast as they are banned and moving to new areas.

Today I reported 127 bots on Piken Square, yesterday 104 most of them the same ones.

I decided to change to Fissure of Woe because the problem was really affecting my will to play any more of this game. First zone I enter was level 70 to 80, there were two groups of bots, about 60 per group, their levels ranged from 19 to 72, most of them below level 40. Engineers throwing up healing turrets constantly. Most of them were bare, no clothes at all.

TBH, I wish I had stayed on Piken Square as the bot problem is much better (groups of 5 – 10 rather than 60 is better I guess).

I just fear they all do a server transfer to liven our server up a little! I think Iwill transfer back in 6 days.

They are already back. I admit myself I am hard on the devs but I expect nothing less than perfection from myself as does my employer.
It is hard to see things fail so bad when all you want is the game to succeed and be fun and when it doesnt and there is a lack of communication then there is mass anger.
I think the mods realize we are venting at times but really in the end want this to be an enjoyable fun experience. And yes dont forget it is the internet.

They are banning bots in the dozens. It takes time and it’s a process to go through each reported account and verify botting. Especially when people are reporting over 100 individual accounts several times a week. Imagine that about 400,000 players of which maybe 10% report an average of 100 bots. that’s 400,000 reports of which probably 80-100,000 are individual accounts. Now this is just guesstimating wildly. But you see what I am getting at. It takes time. And unfortunately it’s easier to create a bot than it is to ban one.
Now for reference I have only recently seen bots and reported all of them. This is on SoS and I have only encountered <10 bots…

They are currently working more on creating code to auto detect and remove bots. Just thought you should know.

I really do hope they do something about the bots, it’s getting out of hand already.

While derping on the ANet youtube channel, look what I found:
(Look at the advertisement below the video)