Unfair gameplay
I’m sure its not just T8, this is what happens when nothing is done to prevent it. Anet has allowed it to carry on for what ? a year and a half ? People post daily about exploits and send reports, some even make video’s explaining how its done and send them to Anet but I guess if you just ignore it it will go away right ? Kinda like those bugs that have been around since beta.
inb4 lock. There is no hacking, since there is not an option to report someone for hacking, right?
Nobody is bad by nature
Report via https://help.guildwars2.com/home and you’ll have all the options you want.
Requires a bit more effort, sure. Like collecting actual evidence. But you don’t want everybody and their dog spamming support with hacking requests on a whim. Many of them are either perception bias or ignorance regarding game mechanics.
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Really? All that while you can report someone for botting anytime you want?
Or you want everybody and their dog spamming support with botting requests on a whim? It is OK for boting but not for hacking?
Man, think twice before you make post like the above.
Nobody is bad by nature
Really? All that while you can report someone for botting anytime you want?
Yes. Why do you find it contradictory?
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Really? All that while you can report someone for botting anytime you want?
Yes. Why do you find it contradictory?
Because I believe that two very similar and serious violations of the game’s code of contacts should be handled the same away. Having an option for one and not the other simply means that hacking punishment is not a priority for Arenanet. Probably because it does not effect the gem shop.
Nobody is bad by nature
How they are “very similar”? Botting has clear patterns to test against and is ongoing process so it is [relatively] easy to catch offender red-handed. Hacking? What do you do as a support if the only information you get is “he’s hacking!”? Do you even understand the scope of such investigation in absence of any information except user tag and time stamp?
Take a look at options available in reporting UI. All of them have specific patterns and ways to check validity of the claim. Well, I can’t really comment about LFG abuse, but few types of it I know fall into same category. Hacking otoh is too broad of a topic to have such simplistic way of reporting. It would be horribly ineffective, resource hog and prone to abuse.
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How they are “very similar”? Botting has clear patterns to test against and is ongoing process so it is [relatively] easy to catch offender red-handed. Hacking? What do you do as a support if the only information you get is “he’s hacking!”? Do you even understand the scope of such investigation in absence of any information except user tag and time stamp?
Take a look at options available in reporting UI. All of them have specific patterns and ways to check validity of the claim. Well, I can’t really comment about LFG abuse, but few types of it I know fall into same category. Hacking otoh is too broad of a topic to have such simplistic way of reporting. It would be horribly ineffective, resource hog and prone to abuse.
Yet I saw a post where a dev said to report hacking as botting…
I would be way less work for them to have a real option to declare hack, instead of having to figure out if the botting claim is real botting or some hacking report…
Yet I saw a post where a dev said to report hacking as botting…
I cannot really comment on that. Personally I wouldn’t agree this is a good suggestion. Sounds like just an attempt to make player feel good but actually not advising something constructive.
I would be way less work for them to have a real option to declare hack, instead of having to figure out if the botting claim is real botting or some hacking report…
Indeed.
I don’t have a problem opening support site and providing proper amount of details if I want hacker to be busted. Whether in-game UI should have this level of sophistication is another issue, I don’t think it should as you will need to attach screenshots/videos by browsing your local disk, and that’s probably not something you want to be in game UI. My point is, there is a way to report hacking properly and if you want the guy to actually get caught, make a little effort will you.
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Most people can’t tell the difference between a hack and their elbow. It’s far too easy to assume that if someone beats you, they must be cheating.
That’s why Anet don’t give the option, they’d be buried neck deep in reports in the first hour.
They take the sensible attitude that if you think someone is hacking then you prove it and until you can – don’t bother us.