Guild Wars 2

Gaile Gray , thnx and btw i think its Smithen But yeah i think everyone will be superpsyched over that news, sadly u guys still have a war on botting ahead of u,but hopefully u can make it so unpleasant for em here that the go back to WoW

Gaile Gray.6028:

Well, if I told you — hand on heart — we smited (smote?) more than 3,000 bots this afternoon, would that make you feel a little more cheery?

Awesome, i guess the Bot Smiting has begun for full force now

Thnx Anet

well, i decided to give Anet the benefit of doubt and wait some longer. After reading their posts more carefully i see that they probably are working on it and very hard,but they have had other issues such as stolen accounts,and ofc that is more pressing than some naked ranger.

Give em some time, and they might surprise us with a spectacular crackdown on the botters.

theres lvl 4-5`s in 70-80 zones now also, just filling each map up with anything they can get their hands on..

Aelia.9546:

Just re-read major parts of this thread and made a decision, with a heavy heart. I’m giving up to report botters, because the fact nothing has been changed for weeks except it became worse, no one from Anet shows a real reaction here EXCEPT measures and warnings against players for mentioning bot names or locations (lol…) gives me the certainty the way the reports go is not Report—->Customer Support—->Dev but Report—->Trash Bin.

I also give up playing at this point and just reactivated my subs on 2 other games, which I had cancelled to play only GW2!
I will check back here every now and then to look, if anything has been done regarding the bot infestation, but to be honest, I’ve lost the hope things will change.

And no, this is not neither rage quitting nor out of pure spite, I’m a 54 year old and don’t tend to behave like a child, but after many years of experience in MMO gaming and also support I can’t stand any longer with the state of the game as it is at the moment.

Im not gonna rage and threaten to Quit either, Both me and my wife play GW2, Im 39yrs and both myself and my wife is really saddened by the botting plus the silence from the mod`s when it comes to this issue. we both cancelled our subscription in WOW plus i quit TSW and other games to play GW2, but if this continues i might give those fuzzy panda`s a chance instead and Anet and play house with the botters.. Problem is, When the real players leave, the botters will also, when theres no more players that require gold/mats they will move on to greener pastures.

I even got warned and got my post removed cos i had a screenshot of the MAP with a red ring around where the 5-6 botters ive kepst a eye on for a month now. How is that red ring on a map any personal information at all? it just seems u want to restrict ppl ability to report more bots. I put that map picture and wrote on the post : go out there yourself and see,if u agree with me,report these Bots.

Edit: heres that map again…

The worst part is how they treat us customers, Sure i can understand it takes time to deal with the bots in a good way,but then they should say so, keep us posted a little wthout spilling big secrets about what the are gonna do specificly, but no, they treat us like fools,close our moth and send us to the door.

Also a little relevant:

Heres my Thief

WOW!! We have been asking and begging for a mod to answer us about this Bot plague, and this is all u have to say? Why dont you just say "Stop bothering us with bot questions, we A# get rich from em or B# we simply dot know how to handle it…

But this was just a smack across the face to the honest Players…

Welcome to Guild Bot, the BOT friendly MMO…(aslong as u pay tax)

Well lets just hope that the silence is a sign that they actually are doing something, mabe they actually ARE monitoring the bots to come up with a better way to keep em away. Yes a quick fix like banning em on sight is more satisfying for us,but since GW2 is such a game of awesomeness ill give Mike and the others in head of security the benefit of doubt. Just cant wait til the day when the botters get a bloody nose

Its been much focus on whats NOT been done, but in fairness alot of good stuff has happened aswell.

The bots i reported 3-4 weeks ago is still there, still doing the same things they have done for atleast 3-4 weeks.. Same movement pattern, same everything. NOT multiboxing, it IS botting.. I have reported them again now, but im afraid I will get kicked from the game before the bots for reporting them more then one time.

Edit: you might just as well close this thread also if your not gonna answer us, close this one and silence everyone who mention the unspeakable word beginning with B. You win i give up..

One thing it seems they are very quick to deal with is to close ANY threads that talk about the botting problem. Its almost like someone tells you to avoid a issue unless u go to the other room and close the door behind you. I just dont get it.

Mabe its not that they dont care about the botters, mabe the deal is that they cant stand up to the botters, they are letting the bullies rule instead of a war with them…“we leave you alone if you guys dont do so n so” It takes a big pair of kahunaas to admit that the botters are more clever, but if that is the case atleast say so to us so we know the deal..

Im very amazed by the absolute silence the GM`s persent us concerning botters, they removed threads about botters and told us to stick to the official thread, sounds a little like ur just showing us the backdoor..

just PLZ anser us..

@ Razorface well just imagine a world where everyone isnt as l33t as you, casual gamers etc, plus When i have died, its because i tried to get that barrier down and the ppl who could revive me were to busy looking for claws down the hill..

Mabe Tier 6 mats should be available in special areas like dungeons and other difficult areas, that could make it easier to keep a eye on Bots farming those mats plus the Events would be done more correct, it just sucks cos that event is really cool and nicely made and its a shame its beeing used that way.

I also agree on the poor reward on that event, on a regular i die a couple times, so the repair and teleport costs are higher than what i get from the quest itself..

Im not how old the Quest Breaking the claw of Jormag is, but i havent seen it until recently, sadly tho already theres ppl flocking to the quest NOT to do the actual quest,but to Farm.
Its really sad that ppl disregard the actual quest so much, do u really just wanna farm and hack at nodes all day?
Today i tried to do the Jormag quest,but it was me and another lonely soul left at the hill trying to break that barrier, while 15 other farmers was wting for next wave of mobs to appear so they could farm em for Claws and ice shards..Its really boring.If all u wanna do is farm, theres plenty of other games where all ppl do is gurd nodes and farm mobs, PLZ dont make this game into the same also.

Sadly its getting so bad in most areas now that if u by any chance bump into a non bot player you get surprised. The maps are filled with different Bot trains and that kinda cheaters,and its very sad for us honest players to see these ppl getting rich ingame and irl, there is no real moral that rewards us for playing fair at all,and the silence of the GM`s is getting deafening.. I think we all await some kind of reply to this Bot Plague, and with reply we dont want the usual phrase : Botting is on the top of our priority list and we are looking into the issues, please keep reporting in the proper ingame way. Then the list of “how to report”.

I love this games Graphics and everything about it, and its very sad to see how its beeing destroyed. Id even pay to play if u could make this game more honest by dealing with these botters and cheaters.

Just my 5 cents atleast..

L/R Kvite

I hope a GM can clarify this,but is it right to understand that us honest users can get Permbanned if we loose sight on what bots we report and report them several times?
If we ask about whats happening with botting,and if we post links/complaints in the wrong place?

After reporting Bots for a while,and seeing that they are NOT beeing removed, on the contrary the bots are increasing in number it seems, the less i feel its any use in reporting at all. If we make a post about Botting i feel we are beeing “told off” if we say it in wrong place, posts getting removed etc, its not very encoraging at all.. I love this game, i would Pay to Play if the botting and gold sellers were adressed more strictly.

I would atleast appreciate some feedback about whats happening about the botters and other kinds of exploiters/cheaters..

I appreciate that ANet is looking into our reports, but its a little discouraging when i see the same bots at the same spot, doing the same action for weeks now and even tho ive reported em, and i sendt a map where to find em they are still there, and sadly one more Bot has appeared in that spot now. This place has a high droprate of potent blood and im sure they farm this and flood the marketplace with this bot blood :S

Every day i go to that spot hoping the bots will be gone, and every time i get a little dissapointed to see that they are still here,and now even increasing in numbers.

I’m here with another person on Fireheart Rise in Sumaria Ruins watching four people botting. They’ve been doing it for 24 hours by all accounts.
They are totally automated killing Minotaurs then going to exactly the same position. Tried chatting to them, no response.

Will Arenanet ban these people or not?

I watched these 4 ppl yesterday,and they are still here today, they move in pattern and its VERY obvious its gold farmers who might exploit the high drop of Blood in that area..Plz look into it..

plz look into this, its very disheartening for us honest players, that these bots gets no punishment.

I saw these ppl yesterday, and they are definately botting, ive tried talking to em also…same behaviour for 24 hours and even more…

Have we all lost the exp/items we aquired before the DC?

“edit”

Im back in, and it seems im at correct lvl AND i have my items..

Im really happy with how quick we get reply from support and how quick they fix our problems..Not like aa really dissapointing game called D3..took days to get a word from support there..

obviously my “firewall” still has issues, i waqs “in” the Char select , but then i was DC`ed again..

Lost 3 lvl`s and probably lots of nice items i had before the DC..