Guild Wars 2

Just ran into wvw, saw some people over by a skill point and wanted to try to get in on the action. What I found was 58 bots with 58 bears running in circles farming skitts. It would take 1 person, just 1 in game gm who can ban to make the difference. Botting is announced by players in the general map chat constantly, said gm could go check it out and ban them.

Yes there is a sticky at the top, and we should probably only post about this there but many people are getting frustrated. We know you are working on it, we are just tired of seeing the problem get worse instead of better. For each tread that is closed or shut down at least we know someone is having to see it. As frustrating as I can imagine the constant nagging is, it is equally frustrating player side. I would post this in the sticky but it appears that you have gotten fed up and locked it.

Your game rocks my socks, I love it and will continue to play it but grrrrrr these bots are making me hulk out lol. Screenshot provided below, names and personal information were blacked out as per code of conduct

roflmao

That’s just hilarious.

i saw similar mob of bots underwater with the quaggans in WvW... it seems WvW is there new hunting ground

Wonderful, this is bad.. with the queues and all, bots taking up space in wvw.. 50 of them you say? great…

Make friends with someone on the opposing server and have them wipe them out regularly? Or switch server and do it yourself?

50 of them in this area, as jezath said above( I believe he is in darkhaven as well) there was another group farming underwater. I would say around 100 were in the map easily. Botters are getting more and more brazen, and the numbers of them are exploding,. They dont fear repercussions; this makes me wonder if bots will start showing up in wvw primetime completely destroying a servers competitiveness.

I wouldnt bot because I mostly pvp and do pve/wvw solely for fun but the vibe I get is that since there is no danger in botting many people are going “why not?”

@ tomlin- I tried that, but 50 rangers spamming crossfire and 50 bears eating your face means that you need a lot of ppl to break them down…….and when you do the path system rezzes them and has them run back.

@tomlin

That won’t make them go away though, they’ll just ress and still take up space..

…wow, that’s awful. Funny as hell, but pretty awful. This is the kind of stuff that’ll cripple WvW, really needs sorting soon.

Friggin’ bots…

Awesome, why ain’t this happening on my server ;/ Farm the bots

Twaddlefish.6537:

…wow, that’s awful. Funny as hell, but pretty awful. This is the kind of stuff that’ll cripple WvW, really needs sorting soon.

Friggin’ bots…

Yeah, it’s gamebreaking really.. unless all sides got about the same ammount of bots ^^

How difficult is it to have a moderator on every server? I mean we’re not talking about someone who needs a Ph.D here…. Hire some wage help or offer bonuses to Anet play testers for doing this in their own time (there so many ways the company could find trusted moderators to do this…).

When someone reports a bot in-game have on-duty moderator notified of zone and location so they can swoop in observe the behavior, document the behavior and blow up the bots.

Is this something we loose in a free-to-play MMO? If the game studio can’t offer this basic level of policing then I do worry about the future of the game. Isn’t that a legit concern?

Some URGENT action has to be taken.
This is not “hidden” botting, this is “right in your face” botting… yeah, ONE GM could clean that place in a couple of minutes.
What the hell are you waiting for, ANet?

this is why games need GM support still not this phone and help desk crap