Guild Wars 2

I understand where Roachy is coming from. I get it. Sales are sales. It seems, however, that if it gets out of control it will serve to drive off real players.

It sounds like it already is.

You ask us to stop complaining. No. It is taking a lot of fun out of the game and I will continue until we get an answer or I quit playing myself. If what you say is true and they would just as soon a given player be a bot than a person, they should realize that the more bots they have the fewer people will want to play.

Looking for a happy medium with bots…ok, I get it. There are too many. The medium is not happy.

Regards.

maybe they are. but you can’t tell because they are not letting us know.

Hey good news! We banned 50 accounts last week for botting. posted in login news.

Just to pile on……

I see groups of bots on the 50-60 maps. That means they made their way through all of the lower maps without getting banned. Right after I made that last post I maximized the game and ran into a group of 3 bot warriors in Timberline Falls.

If they were caught early they would not have a chance to pay for themselves.

Now I should not complain without offering a solution:

1 player with “you are perm banned” power should be on every map (or at least the maps up to level 60. or maybe cycling through 3 or 4 maps on a regular basis. Call them Bot Patrol [ANET]. This player walks around and looks for bots and takes reports in map chat from other players on the presence of bots.

in map chat: “Good evening players. This is Bot Patrol checking in. Any activity?”

I guarantee you will get responses.

Mr. or Mrs. Bot Patrol[ANET] then goes to reported area and permbans the bot on the spot (I made a rhyme).

Regards again….

Dear Arenanet,

I report bots all the time but I still see some of the ones I have reported on more than one occasion.

Is Arenanet actively hunting these things down? If not I will stop reporting. It seems on many maps there are more bots than people playing. They are astonishingly easy to find. I imagine Arenanet people with /ban skills play too do you not see them? Is anything being done? I’m sure if you ban enough of the accounts the cost will make it not worth the expense of buying new accounts. Can’t you block I.P.?

Again it seems pointless to keep reporting these things when the problem only seems to be getting worse. If you ARE actively banning bot accounts, it would be great encouragement to let us know that. This way us humans know our efforts spent reporting them are not in vain. I keep looking for something about that on the login screen news but there is nothing I have seen.

Regards…