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probably just gold farmers and they picked that area because its sort of secluded away and spawn rate seems pretty fast.. just a guess
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
I hear ya. I wouldn't get discouraged though it does happen in every game. I still remember instances on SWG even with botters/farmers. Perhaps CoH though, maybe the only one I can't remember any, pretty sure they didn't exist there.
What is most discouraging is they still havn't fixed Keg Brawl. And it feels like I'm the only one who whines about it or post anything on the official forums and it just sinks. Pretty sure not a single Dev has played it since launch...
Which is where I call home. I play Rift and TSW. Both have promising futures. As said earlier though, my money is on Trion for the future. Having a lot of fun in TSW, mind, but when the Expansion drops for Rift.. Well.. I'll be there almost exclusively
Anyway, Grats on GW2 for the new server. Judging by their CS sales, they are doing better than a normal P2P game. ANet is freaking brilliant. I don't care what anyone says. Their brilliance is second only to perhaps the first thinkers behind WoW. Another game I don't particuliarly like.
But that's just personal taste. The brilliance is there for all to see.
You know, there was this personal story mission where the Risen kept spawning even after I finished the mission. Speaking of secluded, there was some NPC's to even sitting there helping out. I went afk after the mission was over and my pets/npcs were just still going at it...
yeah it ended up being about 4 weeks. It was announced about 2 weeks in. The only reason I brought it up, was because adding a server used to sound awesome 4 months ago
Thank you, that was exactly my point.
This guy is full of spin. In my post prior to that one i already mentioned that there are bots in every popular and eve less popular mmo's and after his claim of 1 player in 3 bots all he could come up with was 2 pictures of the same 6 bots. Now he tries to pretend that me and probably others are denying bots altogether.
Spin.
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Regurgitating what someone else said. Let me make it easy for y'all to count: how many bears do you spot? That's right, it's not six.
Don't also forget GW2 has this weird feature implemented. A performance optimization they did on the servers (forum post about it). You can spot this best in Lion's Arch, walk around the Trade Post and see how many characters within 10 meters or so pop in and out of your view.
Keep on white knighting. I'm just wasting my time here.
And I'm the "hater", pshaw.
thats 100% true and the main reason many of my friends didnt want to buy the game. they were right. just check the history of the games of ncsoft and you ll see bots was always a major issue
Starter human area of Yak's Bend server. Do you really need me to link a video?
i'd love to see a video of you running around ANY zone and showing me the overwhelming population of people are botting.. because that is basically what you are claiming
I said the human starting area of Yak's Bend.
I'm on Yak's Bend too, it's more than just Queensdale, I see them in Ascelon, Gendarran Fields, Kessex Hills, Bloodtide Coasts, on and on and on. When we went to fight the dragon at Splintered Coast there were massive groups of ranger clones right at the waypoint spawn.
Let me repeat myself again so I can be abundantly clear.
Last night, Yak's Bend Human starting area there was an average of 3-5 bots per person. Meaning for every one player I saw that looked legit (who knows, might have been a bot too), there was a group of 3-5 bots.
After seeing this repeatedly, I noticed in map chat people saying stuff like:
"Anyone else here but bots?"
A few people (myself included) said not me.
After experiencing about an hour or so, I changed servers because I was rather disgusted.
So, waking up this morning, reading this post, that was my knee-jerk reaction.
Take it at what you will.
After playing some on Tarnished Coast this morning, it seems the bots are less.
--Done--
Edit: Have you guys become so defensive that I need to preface every comment/thought/perception with "In my opinion"?
In my opinion, there were a lot of bots on Yak's Bend last night.
In my opinion, there seemed to be more bots than players on the area I was at.
In my opinion, it seems like they might be opening a server for the bots.
It's my opinion, I am not trying to spread misinformation here.
All that content will be completed within a few weeks which is why I said I will give them 6+ months of content updates before I go back and try it.
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bots... bots... bots.....
In Ultima Online, miners would set up there house next to hills and they would have bots mine all night, in "the safety of their own home ruining the economy!! Everyone has a bots, miners suk!"
In DAoC there were "buff bots", some were stationary, others "followed" you around, "ruining RvR", everyone has a bot!
In WoW, "80% of the people in my BG R botz!1!1!1".
GW2 "For every 1 real player I ran into last night, I encountered 3-5 bots"
(as a few examples)
Bots have been around since the beginning, any game worth its salt is more than likely, going to have them, welcome to massively multi-player online gaming. Its unfortuante, but there it is.
Heres hoping Anet can put even a small grip on them..
Thank you.
Watch out, you might be accused of having an agenda too. :P
Yes. But bots have always been more of an issue in games w/o a subscription fee.
So where are the screen shots? If its sooo easy to find and happens so often, you should be able to post tons of pics to back up your claim, right?
Oh and in all the times I have played I have seen 3 or 4 bots at most.
Did you even bother reading what I said?? I said last night. I wasn't taking any SS last night because honestly, I didn't have the forsight to realize I would need to prove what I saw. Second, I moved servers. I posted a SS of 3 I saw on my new server already and I said there appears to be much less on TS.
I don't really feel like transferring back to Yak's Bend b/c I will have to wait an additional 24 hours to transfer back to the land of the living.
Bottom line: if you don't believe me I don't care. This is a dicussion not a trial.
It's more like if you post anything on the GW2 forums.
my comment wasn't directed at you more the constant botting epidemic posts i see here.. but if anyone still on yak's can get some video of mass spread botting id love to see it.. first bots I saw was today which another poster had to take me to the area.. maybe most botters have made home on yak's? i dunno
I angered the clerk in a clothing shop today. She asked me what size I was and I said actual, because I am not to scale. I like vending machines 'cause snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at a store, oftentimes, I will drop it... so that it achieves its maximum flavor potential. --Mitch Hedberg
Doubtful and where's your proof? In Asia there is no sub based subscriptions of WoW which I'm pretty sure that is all MMOs then. GW2 you need an account and are typically hacked accounts according to some that are botting. It doesn't matter if it was a sub based game or non-sub as they are using someone elses account. Granted non-sub games might go longer without the owner detecting the theft if they are on an extended break.