Guild Wars 2

So yesterday in WvW I fought a guy that was very obviously using some sort of speed hack, and maybe a teleport hack (he liked to fall out of the sky onto the same position, but that could have been him speed-jumping from further away). I did right click on his portrait and report him (for botting). Is there any other followup I could have done? I didn’t think a screenshot would be particularly helpful, since it doesn’t have his name on it, so I didn’t take one. What should one do in the future?

Thanks!

You could go out of your way and install video recording software on your computer, have it running whenever you play and be ready to start recording when you see something like that occurring. Upload the video and send email to exploits@arena.net and provide a detailed description along with the link to your video.

Note that it’s best you don’t use Youtube, at least if you’re planning on setting the video availability to “private” (only people who know the link may view it). That way you would be able to see how the video gets zero views after weeks have gone by.

If you want to follow up on the hacker, have them targeted and hit P to open the party popup, select “invite” and you can mouse-over his portrait to see his account name. Add him to your friend or blocked list and watch him continue playing for weeks to come until you’ve become jaded enough to not care about it anymore.

Hope this helps.

Speed hacking has been around in all MMOs for more than a decade now. Hard to catch but easy to pinout and requires the hacker to actually speed hack to get caught.

Honestly, why do you need to cheat in an online game?

Honestly if you reported for botting they will never see the report. All the in-game reports seem automated. If there’s a “big” report like hacking you have to do it through their support channels from what I understand. It’s extremely hard to get hackers banned but they do seem to do it eventually.

I have actually started using my own methods to report hackers in Guild Wars 2, it’s no less effective than any other method you may have heard described.

I took an empty cardboard box and turned it upside down, took magic markers of different colors (you can use whatever colors you most enjoy) and drew buttons that correspond to different hacks you see in WvW. Whenever I see someone hacking I quickly press the appropriate button on my cardboard box and relax, knowing I’ve accomplished something in just a few short seconds that would have otherwise taken me a good amount of trouble and time.

I suspect this is actually very similar to the system Arenanet’s customer service uses on their end.

Well, first you have to use the in game reporting tool to report him as selling gold or being abusive in chat to confuse the Customer support, then send in a screenshot that could easily be doctored and really isn’t “evidence”, and then you wait for them to do nothing.

It really is an incredibly smooth process.

Ikaros.7812:

I have actually started using my own methods to report hackers in Guild Wars 2, it’s no less effective than any other method you may have heard described.

I took an empty cardboard box and turned it upside down, took magic markers of different colors (you can use whatever colors you most enjoy) and drew buttons that correspond to different hacks you see in WvW. Whenever I see someone hacking I quickly press the appropriate button on my cardboard box and relax, knowing I’ve accomplished something in just a few short seconds that would have otherwise taken me a good amount of trouble and time.

I suspect this is actually very similar to the system Arenanet’s customer service uses on their end.

Haha, thanks for the laugh! Good reply!

“I want to report a hacker”
“Please see the ANet complaint department”