Guild Wars 2

I would imagine that SOME of the botting scum use sophistication, but I mean, kittypoo, most of the bots I see are so utterly blatantly obvious that a child should be able to notice them.

So how is it that you, ArenaNet, are not doing something about them, even when theyr’e reported to DEATH. You tell us to report, we report, nothing changes.

Here’s an example.

I often blast thru the skale under the bridge near shaemor village – great place to do weapon skilling and get blood on alts. Or used to be. I think y’all crushed the drop rate of blood there since you’re incapable of really dealing with problems and screw real players instead. But I digress.

I was there a few days ago passing thru on one alt, I saw a character with a distinctive name with erratic behavior.

I’m passing thru there now, I see the exact same character. I have an incredible memory and would not fail to notice such a distinctive name. Today the character is killing skales and seemingly teleporting around the map. Every few seconds he moves 20 yards, like he’s blinking every few seconds.

I have friends with horrific connections (living in the boonies) and crap latency and disconnects and none of them ever appear to be popping around like this, so it’s not a latency/lag issue. I have no clue what it is, but it probably has something to do with..

..this character being a blatantly obvious bot.

BTW – I’m sure some people fall asleep while playing and manage to die/rez enough to get naked, but most of the naked toons you see, especially those without guild tags in a game where it’s almost unheard of to be guildless, are usually bots. I’ve taken to reporting ALL naked toons I see on general principal.

Not that it helps, since NOTHING….NOTHING is being done about even the most blatant of botting.

I’m against a lot of the stuff PLAYERS are abusing – the exploits, the zerg groups, the dungeon farming, etc, but, IMO, none of that is nearly as severe as stuff like botting by pros or players.

I don’t get the priorities here. You seem to go out of your way to put the smack down on players but totally ignore the gold spammers and botters when it’s comically easy to detect (um, they’re spamming chat with gold sales) spammers and almost as comically easy to identify bots (takes maybe 20 seconds of observation by anyone with a functional brain.)