Originally posted by Nefera
Desolation EU. Have a look at the grawl populated area southwest of where claw of jormag land, counted a dozen or so there last night.

Noticing more and more on Desolation myself over the last week or so. Not a gamebreaking amount or anything, but clearly there.

The bots I used to see, usually 4 or 5 characters with all armour gone and each with a name made up of a jumble of letters, are gone now. There was a lvl 40 bot yesterday, on its own, with armour and a "sensible" name which was teleoprting around killing the moas and a couple of wargs outside a town all day. 

I don't know whether a player had been hijacked or whether the player was playing around with a botting program.  I reported it, for what that's worth.

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention, BOTS everywhere!

BotWars2

After checking the your last 35 posts or so (which are 2/3rds about DF, and a few complaining about GW2): What do you base this on?

Do you actually play? Have you seen plenty of bots?

I never seen an obvious bot and I been playing for over 200 hours. In Linegae they were everywhere, but here no.

Yes GW2 has bots. I've reported over 2 dozen myself in the last few days, and I wasn't even hunting for them, just doing map completions. Server Devona's Rest.

Due to GW2's game design botting is at least less "harmful" in the game world than in in other MMOs (still irritating tho), but long term the bots are still a negative that needs to continue to be addressed. Thank the Devs they let us Players report them.

Gold Seller's Mails I still get, but much less than last week, I don't use Map chat anymore in part due to the gold sellers, and in part due to normal chat garbage (no need to get into that now).

I have been playing since Beta and haven't seen a BOT yet.

Or maybe BOT technology is so advance I can't even notice.

Either way, it is not affecting my gaming

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Originally posted by Nefera
Desolation EU. Have a look at the grawl populated area southwest of where claw of jormag land, counted a dozen or so there last night.

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Whiteside ridge, Gendarran Fields - around 50 bots in various group sizes (3 to 5), around the north centaur hills, and south at the swamp, same goes for all areas below lvl 50. (Haven't seen any above lvl50 on that server) Necro groups, Ranger groups with bears.

Since i've only switched around 6 servers (2 us) i can't say how the overall bot population is, neither do i care enough to commit my time to count every bot i see.

So my guess is, it's ignorant and dumb to claim gw2 has a massive issue or non at all. However, while not reaching the other NCsoft game bot treshold, i can safely claim there are at least around 200+ bots just on whiteside ridge farming right now since weeks.

When you consider that whiteside ridge is a medium filled server with no overflow requests in queensdale you are likely seeing and meeting more bots than players. (Which isn't nice).

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention, BOTS everywhere!

BotWars2

Honestly, i am more concerned with bugs. Its been over a month and GW2 has more bugs than Starship Troopers. The bugs from release are still here and personal stories are still broken for over a month for many players.

Its really embarrassing for a AAA title.

Originally posted by The_Korrigan

Originally posted by jacklo
If you're posting about bots, could you name the servers because I've yet to see any - Gandara EU.

To be honest, I'm on Gandara and I've seen some, notably in Queensdale - a couple of hunters with gibberish names running in circles killing random stuff over and over.

But it's nowhere near the invasion some posters here try to make us believe.

Personally I haven't noticed a single one of those bots, perhaps because I spend most of my time inside WvW. What worries me is not the amount, but rather their abilities and what that means in PvP.

• Running a bit faster (or constantly on max speed) and you can reach your target or get away easier.
• Jumping a bit higher and you can reach points that would be considered unreacheable, so you can either flank or place siege.
• I won't even comment what teleporting anywhere in a WvW map means for the balance of this map.
• Other weird stuff like getting one shotted from max health or thieves never leaving stealth while attacking and so on.

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by Xasapis

Well, it's kind of hilarious to watch the double standards. Anything good and it's all Anet and NCsoft has zero say or can get any credit for. Anything bad and it's all NCsoft's fault and Anet is powerless and not at fault.

Sorry, can't have it both ways.

What is NC softs fault is that they use email adresses as usernames, it is their standard which their partners just have to live with,

The rest is of course ANETs fault, but the bot problem is a storm in a waterglass. Account hacking is a real problem, and ANET really should restore hacked accounts items and characters at least, complain on that instead if you want to complain instead.

this

Originally posted by JeroKane

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention, BOTS everywhere!

BotWars2

After checking the your last 35 posts or so (which are 2/3rds about DF, and a few complaining about GW2): What do you base this on?

Do you actually play? Have you seen plenty of bots?

I never seen an obvious bot and I been playing for over 200 hours. In Linegae they were everywhere, but here no.

My main is a lvl70 thief.. i play every day not too much though as the first weeks. And yes i see bots in every area... a group of hunters running around farming, even events. I dont know why my last 35post has something to do with this... its a fact i've seen every day and its getting worse

It was the same crap back with Aion.

There armies of bots were constantly clearing entire quest areas of mobs. It was disgusting.

We reported every single bot, but when we still saw the exact same bots on the exact same spot farming over a week later, we all hit the Cancel button and left that craptastic game.

NCSoft has never really cared about bots and never will.

I totally remember that, only in Aion thye made it rediculous to try and do your quests xD at least in GW2 they donnt affect you that way as much..... but yeah NCsoft dont care about bots much or gold sellers sad truth.

Originally posted by halflife25

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention, BOTS everywhere!

BotWars2

Honestly, i am more concerned with bugs. Its been over a month and GW2 has more bugs than Starship Troopers. The bugs from release are still here and personal stories are still broken for over a month for many players.

Its really embarrassing for a AAA title.

This.

I agree. Even though the bots annoy me the bugs need fixing more so. For me... I think the mechanisms are in place for the players to police the bots so to speak, now on to the bugs. Quickly.

Originally posted by jacklo
If you're posting about bots, could you name the servers because I've yet to see any - Gandara EU.

If you head down to the woods today your in for a big supprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDdpvV5mh_A&feature=player_embedded

I think its time to remember that ArenaNet usual have collect bans together in big packages to hit an criminal activity hard and efficent. As of now we are 6 weeks into the game. And alot of other stuff have had bigger priority, and with good reason. Like the 30.000+ hacked accounts.

In around a month i will expect to see a big ban wave again. This time hitting bots. Properly just around halloween as part of the festival.

And remember that bots in most cases are directly costing ArenaNet money as they found illegal goldselling. The more they can stop botters the more money they will make. But for now they can trace and track the transaction from botting accounts, and hopefully get the to hit the whole gang, and not just the bot being repported.

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Originally posted by The_Korrigan

Originally posted by Utuku

Here's a first,a GW2 faithful checking a forum members post history because they dare to start a thread complaining about the rampant bots and hacks in they're favorite semi Asian grinder.

We could look at your post history then... account created 4 days ago, 23 posts, all GW2 bashing, repeating "asian cash shop grind" at least 5 times.

The agenda of some people are pretty obvious. Reading post histories is always entertaining and helps filling your block list efficiently.

+1

Originally posted by Utuku
An semi Asian cash shop grinder and people are supprised it's infested with hacks and bots.

semi asian cash shop grinder??

PFFFFF.... just lol

Originally posted by JeroKane

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Originally posted by Loke666

Originally posted by PsyMike3d

Oh yeah, i forgot to mention, BOTS everywhere!

BotWars2

After checking the your last 35 posts or so (which are 2/3rds about DF, and a few complaining about GW2): What do you base this on?

Do you actually play? Have you seen plenty of bots?

I never seen an obvious bot and I been playing for over 200 hours. In Linegae they were everywhere, but here no.

My main is a lvl70 thief.. i play every day not too much though as the first weeks. And yes i see bots in every area... a group of hunters running around farming, even events. I dont know why my last 35post has something to do with this... its a fact i've seen every day and its getting worse

It was the same crap back with Aion.

There armies of bots were constantly clearing entire quest areas of mobs. It was disgusting.

We reported every single bot, but when we still saw the exact same bots on the exact same spot farming over a week later, we all hit the Cancel button and left that craptastic game.

NCSoft has never really cared about bots and never will.

I played Aion from 2009 until 2012 i ran a fully loaded legion and a second one to accomodate alts.

That bot infestation that you mention took some time to deal with at the beginning of the game !! It takes time to collect all these bots and learn how they work and then keep uptodate with. But the way you put it all those bots showed up and were never dealt with. This is a blatant lie on your part. All bots were taken care of and no it did not take a year or years but it also did not happen in 1 day (obviously). After the big bot invasion was solved there were still bots that showed up here and there but it was so few and they got cleaned up so regularly (weekly) that it became a non issue and we ended up with 3 to 4 spammers a week which was totally negligible.

"NCsoft never cared and never will" is what you claim but the reality of it is far from it. Go dramahype some more will you, maybe soap series would make for better entertainment for you since it seems to fit your style.

What are those GW2 bashers trying to achieve ?
Any mmo i played has bots, GW2 no exception.

But you bashers try way to hard.

Played wow lately ? Played Battlegrounds lately ? thats much worse then a few bots reaoming in a pve setting.

At least you can double team with a bot and make easier kills to farm some stuff, unlike in other games where they steal your mobs.

1/10 for the effort, but next time dont make 20 posts about bashing GW as post history can be viewed by any1.

I play on an EU server since beta, and havent seen any bots.

Although, as GW2 is designed to be "groupless" and gives you the ability to "just join in the fight" - how do bots cause you problems? Cant you just go along and join in? They cant steal your kills or anything here, and Anet sell the gold themselves - so I cant see how bots can stop anyone from playing.