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'Bots overrun GW2' a very good read.
halflife25
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in Guild Wars 2
https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/gw2/Bots-Overrun-Guild-Wars-2/first#post258913
I really enjoyed this article and agree with the conclusion.
Clearly botting is just too easy in Guild Wars 2 and the only people it is hurting are the legit players who will quickly begin to lose interest in the game if ArenaNet does nothing to acknowledge this problem in a bigger, more aggressive way.
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Yeah Anet do need to be way more proactive in dealing with bot's than what they have been.
I'm sure there are well known botting locations, shouldn't take much effort for ingame Gm's to check either from reports or off their own back ..... or would it ?
I guess same can be said for those who sell drugs? they are not the one ruining people lives it is the people who buy the drugs doing it to themselves. Drug dealers are after all just providing a service right?
HAHAH i am laughing so much.. i can't stop Gw2 Black trading Market wasnt offline for 2 weeks so that guy in there lies.. i played 3 days after launch and i could acces it with no problems and i doubt there are any bots in gw2 so far..
and if there are they just waste time on making bots.. pretty useless to do in gw2.
aaaah yes. that's sth completely unexpected ... sure.
or, if you ever played another mmo before, you are used to it in the beginning, and wait till they fixed it.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
The trading post was offline for two weeks with ocassional 2 to 3 hours uptime and then it used to go offline again. So nope guy is not lying. BTC was indeed offline for majority of time for 2 weeks.
What do you suggest they pay the extra GMs with? Your monthly sub?
What you pay is what you get, B2P = bad CS and low GM count.
not really dude.. ArenaNet is great company.. B2P is the best that a game can do.. they still earn lots of money by selling gems.. and other things.. if u didn't know ArenaNet is working their ass out..
There are loads of bot's in Gw2
Side topic ish Question:
With modern MMO's, Trading post's , Auction houses etc etc .. is there any need nowadays to allow direct Gold > player trading ?
Would it benifit or harm a game to only allow trading through such sources as a AH ?
Perfectly true as long as they're just selling drugs and not forcing anyone. Illegal drugs weren't always illegal and still the majority of humankind never bought or used them. Make no mistake: I don't advocate legalization of any substance. But saying that your health and well-being isn't in your own hands is irresponsible.
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This is a poor analogy in any case. Bots aren't just offering a service to those few who choose to use it. They inevitably affect in-game economy (cause inflation) for everyone. They also use spam to advertise their services which is very annoying and disruptive.
MMORPG genre is dead. Long live MMOCS (Massively Multiplayer Online Cash Shop).
Seafarer's Rest server, character named Power One. Was botting in some cave I went into to get PoI.
I was wondering what that character was doing there, as it seemed to go back and forth and started observing for a while. It ran set course and killed everything on the way.
There is bots, and I really hope it doesn't get like NCSofts earlier games have gone. Real people tend to leave those games.
Just write "guild wars 2 bot" to Google and here's what you get...
That useless part, travelling and repairing costs. Of course people will bot gold.
im a bit lost here, from the whole GW2 philosphy and the global trading post and my time spent in game i had garnered the idea that gold in GW2 was next to useless, other than to fast track crafting .
Considering the lack of gear tiers and gear in general other than ledgendaries or a skin or 2 what does one need mass ammounts of gold for ? It seemed to me that gold was mostly a was to getting things faster, its hard to see botting to sell gold in a game with this kinda economy and philosophy maintain itself for a lenghty period of time.
Also with the worldwide trading post the market was always supposed to be unplayable, due to mass ammounts of most things for sale a number that only increases over time as people lvl alts etc....seems like the only real thing gold spammers are doing is hurting Anets gem sales , if they are undercut enough that is.
Im also curious as to how much difference it makes when you could already buy gold in game lol.
The game mechanics dont work like normal where bots would take all your spawns and make it difficult, they dont affect you running around doing your own thing thanks to the systems in place, so how exactly are they ruining a game or an economy( that you could already purcahse gold for real $ from )?????? taking $ from anets coffers is the only real thing they are doing, the people buying their gold are only doing so cause its cheaper than the gem-gold ratio.
Anyone care to help me understand how they are actually impacting the game in any other fashion ? It seems to me that alot of people buying the gold are probabaly just using it to buy items from the trading post or for WvWvW, if you were to buy gems with gold u bought of farmers you may as well just buy gems in the first place......as you buy the gold from farmers to get more bang for your buck outta gems right ?
WTF im lost.
"I'm sure there are well known botting locations, shouldn't take much effort for ingame Gm's to check either from reports or off their own back ..... or would it ?"
Like lone point waypoint in straits of desolation? god i sware its the same bots there everynight. i keep reporting but nada.
http://medias.luna-atra.fr/gw2/char_tool/CT_imageGenerator.php?pseudo=Centurion Mikal&lang=EN&code=&code=TSwtLDUsLSw2LC0sMjksOSwyMiwyMywyNCwtLDEwMiwzNiw4MSw4NCw4OQ==
GW2 isnt the first game to suffer bots, and you can bet it wont be the last.
My recommendation is do your part as a player, dont buy gold, dont visit gold sites, and report any bot you see.
Regarding your 2nd paragraph. It doesnt matter to the botters. Theyll bot and try to sell gold in ANY game. RF Online for example. No more than a few hundred people playing anymore, yet still infested with bots. Probably about half the population is bots. Theyll do it regardless, as long as they can make evn a iny bit of profit. It doesnt really take any actual work on their part, after all theyre just running a bot and then have to type in someones name to send them gold.
People who buy gold from gold spammers are the same ones that will buy it in any game. They feel they are 'entitled' to do anything they want in a game.
In GW1, there were loads of botters initially then they went away as A.Net permabanned as fast as possible - they were banning email accounts. That is why they don't have a free trial - botters use them alot. Even in Rift, which is vary anal about botters still has them from time to time.
You can't get away from them but you can punish the people who use them as well as the sellers.
A.Net is still probably trying to catch up with all the reports.
Also, paying a sub DOES NOT guarrantee any more GM's than GW2 has already. Paying a sub does not guarrantee better security either.
Yea I have run accross 12 archers all with bear pets in the Asura starter zone sitting in one spot. The pets do all the attacking and the archers just sit there. Funny thing is they all had those familiar names like "adsfrs" or "dfbejsi"
Hvanet seen anything else other then the occasional hacked account spamming buy gold here, or buy gold there.
Not sure why someone would need to buy gold seeing as there is nothing really to spend money on other then crafting. When I hit lvl 80 I used my crafting exp stone and all my gathered materials to max my crafting and still only spent about 2 gold buying things I may have needed from the NPC or from the market.
I am sure if you just saved your money till lvl 80 and sold and rare+ items you received on the way to lvl 80 on the market you would have plenty of money even to buy the racial armor......
whats the point in buying gold, and to top it off if you buy gold from anyone just buy it from Arena Net in the form of jems........
I doubt that would ever happen, they need to maintian the values. But I have another question. Supposedly all gems in the game have been purchased by players. What would they do if the number of players trading gold in for gems exceeds the number of players buyibuying gems and trading them back in for gold? Would they really stop the sales? My concern would be that if enough gold farmers (Botters) were in the game, they could still have a real impact on the Gold to Gem Values.
Playing a game were everything is in a shop to be bought brings the botters, its the old fire triange, botter/product/consumer take anyone away and the fire goes out, sadly its normally the consumer
I totally agree but at least with low pop games like RF the people playing there are jousting for the most power, the best gear etc etc, thats a struggle that cant occur in GW2 other than some skins, thats the reason i cant see it in the same light as most games the bots sell gold in, the sheer lack of need for gold after a certain point and no real way to achieve power with it.
However as most of the boosts etc come from gem items(and your buying gold because its cheaper than selling gems), if the gold sellers start using the gold they farm to buy gems off the player market (prob result in mass gem price drop and value) and undercutting anet on CS items, THAT would be a larger problem. Guess i just answered my own question
lol
Come to Fort Aspenwood server, Cursed Shore lvl 80 area, Penitent Waypoint and the one SE to it, you will see group of bots alternating between there and 2 other spots. Same bots, everyday.
But please, keep doubting there are any bots at all. Denial is a wonderful thing
The reason Anet does not crack down on botters is that in reality, the bots are the creations of 'private contractors' hired by Anet to destroy any way of players gaining income in game, and the result is the ONLY feasible way to buy anything of value in the game is to Pay Anet either through the cash shop gem store, or through one of these contractors who pass it on to Anet.
This gives Anet plausible deniability. Hey we are helpless, or we are doing what we can, or we will do something someday, blah, blah, blah, all the while raising prices of desireable items to heights that make Asian pay to win grindfests paltry.
Anet nicked the whole legendary gear thing from Perfect World, lock stock and barrel, and just renamed a few of the functions of the acquisition process.
GW2's enconomy is pretty much destroyed, and end game content is overrun by bots. No longer a AAA experience, but a massive SNAFU.