Guild Wars 2

Houston We Have a Problem

PS: SoR Home BL go get ’em

Yup, I’m on SoR and I saw this as well! My observations this week is that the bot problem has become more prevalent than ever before. There are PACKS of bots everywhere in the world — even PvE.

Yep, I reported a big group doing that exact same thing about 2 weeks ago. Same pattern. Run run run, jump, run run run, jump, etc.

The names look different so presumably they all got banned and these are new accounts, probably acquired with fraudulent credit card information.

What I don’t get is why Arenanet doesn’t just have “GMs” — people who can log into the game and look for bots and ban them on the spot. It should be really easy to do in WvW because there are only so many servers and so many hotspots they like to use. These guys will be there for hours with no action taken against them.

On the bright side, they are a badge farm for the other team if they find them. The bots are pretty easy to kill. One guardian could probably kill the lot of them with a wall of reflection.

delete all mobs in WvWvW ,problem solved,let them farm in pve

The problem is certain areas have a number of fast spawning events and/or hordes of NPCs that don’t contribute at all to WvW.

I’d be happy to see bots running around Eternal Battlegrounds rotating between ogres, hyleks and dredge. That actually helps my team even if they don’t mean to.

But the borderlands centaurs and ratmen are useless. They do nothing for WvW. They shouldn’t be there or else they should converted to some kind of Eternal style event that converts them to your side.

Arenanet has been very lazy in dealing with this issue, too. They could probably fix the botting problem in literally about 20 seconds of editing that event to occur every 20 minutes instead of every 5.

Why haven’t they?

Bad management, I guess, or somehow word is not getting from the players to the people who need to hear it to make these changes. (Usually the problem in software shops is that the people with the power to make the change don’t have the authority and the people with the authority have priorities elsewhere, so important decisions like this get dropped on the floor.)

And which players do you think would go so out of their as to buy bot program just so they can get unfairly ahead of everyone else . Weather kramma or money its just that they need to out do other players . Ive been seeing alot of farming single bots in guilds now .The secret’s out its all over the net for anyone to have now.

I would like them gone as well…..but I do love seeing those 20+ groups of them since I just farm those enemy bots and kitten off their handlers.

Redrumickey.9672:

And which players do you think would go so out of their as to buy bot program just so they can get unfairly ahead of everyone else . Weather kramma or money its just that they need to out do other players . Ive been seeing alot of farming single bots in guilds now .The secret’s out its all over the net for anyone to have now.

you dont gotta buy it . . . . its not like it woud be hard for anet to see how it works and counter somehow

OH MY GOD….is nothing sacred anymore??! lol

I really hope Anet steps up their game and bans more of these bots soon

Anet say they’re banning botter accounts but I haven’t seen any proof to this as I’ve seen the same group at cursed shore for nearly a week.

Botters in WvW? Disappointing that my queue times are increased because of this.

Great music mix and sense of cinematographic timing McWaffle.

Haven’t seen many in WvW, but in PvE (Dragonbrand), there are several zones where they outnumber legit players.

(a) They should have GM’s hopping from zone to zone, and each WvW grounds. After all, a simple “Seen bots?” in chat will direct them to where they are.
(b) They should give Commanders an option to ping a GM to them. 100g for that title should give them the power to get higher power help. I also think Commanders should have their own class at some point too, but that’s down the road.
© They should make a bot banning achievement. Where if someone reports a bot and they get banned – that player gets 1 point to their Civic Duty Achievement title. Gives us players who actually stop to report a bot train (all 20 players) something for doing it.

This was captured on 2012.10.11. I do not really care until bots are at the PvE area, but they steal our spot at WWW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjLQfx6eXG8

@Stormlight
+1 to a & c. Not b though, but I’ll round up from 2/3. Buying access to GMs sounds like a bad idea to me.

Mentioned something like c to some guildies just last week actually. Rack up enough points and get a custom Ban Hammer skin in your Hall of Monuments.

Not access to a GM, but the ability to have their bot reports come up on the nearest GM’s screen. Plus if they player abuses it, it could come at the cost of losing Commander and thus be out 100g. Sort of like the HazMat Team members on Fallen Earth who give out temp chat bans to players who abuse it and answer help questions.

Ahahahaha, epic.

This game is seriously going to hell.

Makes you think what are they doing there not banning all those accounts yet.

Every MMO has botters and gold sellers…
Nothing new here.
Also the game has not even been out 2mo.
You need to remember that all the botters/gold sellers learned how to do it from WoW and then they hop on GW2 and has that knowledge to do it here till Arenanet uses the ban hammer and gets things in place that stopps them.

Raffie.7865:

Every MMO has botters and gold sellers…
Nothing new here.
Also the game has not even been out 2mo.
You need to remember that all the botters/gold sellers learned how to do it from WoW and then they hop on GW2 and has that knowledge to do it here till Arenanet uses the ban hammer and gets things in place that stopps them.

No this botting is out of control, they arnt even hiding it, if Anet is losing if they are this ballsy. There is also the hacks, where they can teleport to any point with coords. And yes there are compilations of every coord for map completion nodes etc,

remember the 21 karma perma bans, same day it was announced bots got a 3 day suspension. Ooops.