Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
I don't think it's possible to completely rid any game of botting. To promise it would be empty - for any game company.
Swtor and Bioware did it, not a single bot of goldspammer in 7 months and the credits or gold is a big deal on swtor.
Who wants to bot in TOR? Why would a gold seller be in the game? *sarcasm on* isn't TOR an SSO anyway? *sarcasm off*
Actually, you need gold or credits on swtor more than Gw2, so like i said, is a big deal for farmers. i dont know what SSO mean, but i remember swtor with 1.7 mill of players after 3 month of release without a single bot or goldspammer ingame, or even hacks, GW2 is also full of them. Not even a month on gw2 and the active population is dropin fast everyday, even worse after MoP launch, 1 day before MoP: 11 full servers on NA. One day After MoP just 1 Full server on NA, not a single one in europe.
Did you ever, by chance, try that crappy F2P called Cabal? The gold spam chat cascaded so fast that your own public text wouldn't stay on the screen for more than half a second. Worst botting/spamming game I've seen so far.
Yep, the game would often just crash as you came running into town by the bombardment of gold selling spam. Going back to town was always a risky proposition at peak hours. I've seen it bad in F2P games, but CABAL takes the title without any contest from any of the other games I played.
"As a side effect, these efforts directly impact the operations of third-party gold sellers (and spammers). In conjunction with ‘bot’ removal we also take Real Money Trading very seriously and actively remove hundreds of gold spammers and sellers each day.
In short, we are fully committed to keeping this community free of bots and illicit gold sellers, and we very much appreciate your assistance in identifying and eliminating them.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to improve our ability to deal with this issue."
Something's missing from this picture, can you tell what it is?
No mention about taking action against illicit gold buyers or efforts to remove them from the game if caught purchasing gold. (because you really can't have one without the other now, can you?)
In the end its all lip service, of course they won't remove the buyers, and the sellers will just go buy new copies of the game, making ANET more money (or steal people's accounts) and go back to doing business as usual.
Makes for good PR, but lacks any real conviction.
WoW doesn't ban gold buyers either. They just take all the gold off the account.
"As a side effect, these efforts directly impact the operations of third-party gold sellers (and spammers). In conjunction with ‘bot’ removal we also take Real Money Trading very seriously and actively remove hundreds of gold spammers and sellers each day.
In short, we are fully committed to keeping this community free of bots and illicit gold sellers, and we very much appreciate your assistance in identifying and eliminating them.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to improve our ability to deal with this issue."
Something's missing from this picture, can you tell what it is?
No mention about taking action against illicit gold buyers or efforts to remove them from the game if caught purchasing gold. (because you really can't have one without the other now, can you?)
In the end its all lip service, of course they won't remove the buyers, and the sellers will just go buy new copies of the game, making ANET more money (or steal people's accounts) and go back to doing business as usual.
Makes for good PR, but lacks any real conviction.
Funny observation:
- you highlighted the part you needed but left out the answer to your question that was in the same line
and we very much appreciate your assistance in identifying and eliminating them.
So much about the "no mention about taking action".
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Exaggerating much?
Of course your server might have more than mine.
I didn't came across any Bots for the last around 2,5 - 3 weeks anymore.
Prior to that I came only across 5 of them max (3 were together on a DE spawn point spamming arrows and two other in a other area also in a DE spawning point doing the same with shooting pistols/rifles).
So I highly doubt that the "whole game" and every server is like that.
Spotted and reported multiple Bots and Hackers in the past few weeks.
-One case, 2 players were following a 3 step DE in the morning my time, saw them still there later that afternoon, and when I checked back later that night they were still at it.
-The other one I 'Love' are the Rangers, Fire an Arrow, recoil backwards, and then vanish to reappear at some distant mob. On Ehmry Bay, 'Xiao Nan' and 'Stichy' were doing that for at least 2 days in a row that I noticed.
Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
I don't think it's possible to completely rid any game of botting. To promise it would be empty - for any game company.
Swtor and Bioware did it, not a single bot of goldspammer in 7 months and the credits or gold is a big deal on swtor.
Did we play the same SWTOR? I remember getting multiple in-game mails in SWTOR with gold selling advertisements back when I played. Doing a quick google search for swtor gold brings up as many hits for gold selling sites as for any other major MMO, as well. I haven't played since release month, but it seems you're a bit off-base here.
never seen the same bots ingame twice on my server. I see them report them, might take a few hours but they go away and I never see them again. That has been my experiance 3 imes now at least
The last two times I played GW2 I encountered bots, but I am only realizing this in retrospect.
The first time was a ranger who seemed to be logged in and farming the same spot over and over again for hours and hours. He was alone though. I did find it odd that he seemed to not have moved and was still on killing things.
Second time was very annoying. I encountered a group of 5 higher level toons all stuck to each other that teleported into the DE I was just starting on, they killed everything onsite very quickly, which kept me from being able to loot anything at all, and before I knew it they had ported out somewhere else. They literally slaughtered everything in site before I could get a shot. Their names were also not French names though I am on a French server.
Not having had time to check up on the bot issue, I did wonder if I had indeed encountered bots, but I wasn't sure so I did not report them. I wish I had now.
I rarely buy/sell on the market (less than a handful of times since I prefer to salvage crafting materials... more valuable than selling them on the market) so haven't looked at the prices really.
Thing I hated the most about bots were the idiots who let them just do whatever they wanted. I would literally go out of my way to get them killed, then people would walk up and rez them. I would tell them not to because its a bot and your just suporting them exploiting the game. They would heed me no mind and continue to do it. Honestly I think the only way to combat bots would be to make weapons break (at no extra cost to us) so that they have no means of casting their spells after they have died so many times.
Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
lol. That's right up there with ANet secretly bots to sell gold on the side...
Don't you know? Thats a game, they buy an account and bot until enough people report them, then they sell their winnings. The better the spot, the more money they make off it. Its like a strategic game of chance, only there's money involved.
Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
Promising that they can rid the game of bots is kinda like promising that a ship cant be sunk or that the world will end in next month, it would be impossible to keep that.
And goldsellers is not really good for ANET, there are way better and easier ways to deflate the economy than goldsellers which usually hijack players accounts which easily can take away many players from the game that never will get the expansion or buy any gems.
Botting is not really that common, most goldsellers today hacks accounts instead, a lot less work. Sure, there are morons using it to get more gold and there are some people who used hijacked characters as bots but you make it sounds like they are everywhere. And this is not really something unique to GW2 but something that happened in almost every MMO.
Botting were really popular 5 years ago and so was Chinese prisoners and people in gold farming sweat shops. Now they instead steals your account and rob you blind instead.
That's exactly how they do it. You go to their site, they plant a key-logger (thank you Java, Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, et.al. for all those security holes), they sell you some gold. And after they collect your account information from your trojaned computer, they relieve you of the gold and sell it to the next sucker.
Personally, I think you have to be at least six kinds of stupid to buy gold at this point in time. Same goes with modding and add-ons. I mean, come on, these people are dishonest. They steal accounts. They break the rules for a living. Why do people not think they're not going to turn on you? Have you never heard the expression --- there is no honor among thieves?
"As a side effect, these efforts directly impact the operations of third-party gold sellers (and spammers). In conjunction with ‘bot’ removal we also take Real Money Trading very seriously and actively remove hundreds of gold spammers and sellers each day.
In short, we are fully committed to keeping this community free of bots and illicit gold sellers, and we very much appreciate your assistance in identifying and eliminating them.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to improve our ability to deal with this issue."
Something's missing from this picture, can you tell what it is?
No mention about taking action against illicit gold buyers or efforts to remove them from the game if caught purchasing gold. (because you really can't have one without the other now, can you?)
In the end its all lip service, of course they won't remove the buyers, and the sellers will just go buy new copies of the game, making ANET more money (or steal people's accounts) and go back to doing business as usual.
Makes for good PR, but lacks any real conviction.
WoW doesn't ban gold buyers either. They just take all the gold off the account.
Actually, I know CCP does that in EVE, wasn't aware Blizzard had the same policy, never really saw a post from anyone who said that had happened to them in WOW.
Definitely not the standard practice in the industry.
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Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
I don't think it's possible to completely rid any game of botting. To promise it would be empty - for any game company.
Swtor and Bioware did it, not a single bot of goldspammer in 7 months and the credits or gold is a big deal on swtor.
No they didn't. I played SWTOR. I got advertisements during EGA and until I quit in boredom in January. And not only gold, but power-leveling. Something I was really surprised to see seeing as you could power-level yourself to 50 in 30 hours if you used the spacebar.
Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
Players voiced their concerns, and the company has responded with their plan of action. What else are they supposed to do? They banned 1600 accounts last week and terminate hundreds every day. The most imporessive part to me is that they've admitted that their current abilities aren't good enough so they've hired a team of data experts to develop new tools to improve bot detection. I say, this is impressive.
They can do an official apology for not protecting their game server-side against teleportation hacks and movement speed hacks. That would convince me that they are genuine.
"As a side effect, these efforts directly impact the operations of third-party gold sellers (and spammers). In conjunction with ‘bot’ removal we also take Real Money Trading very seriously and actively remove hundreds of gold spammers and sellers each day.
In short, we are fully committed to keeping this community free of bots and illicit gold sellers, and we very much appreciate your assistance in identifying and eliminating them.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to improve our ability to deal with this issue."
Something's missing from this picture, can you tell what it is?
No mention about taking action against illicit gold buyers or efforts to remove them from the game if caught purchasing gold. (because you really can't have one without the other now, can you?)
In the end its all lip service, of course they won't remove the buyers, and the sellers will just go buy new copies of the game, making ANET more money (or steal people's accounts) and go back to doing business as usual.
Makes for good PR, but lacks any real conviction.
lol. I've never gotten a gold-seller message from the same account twice. Same company. PvPBank hijacks a lot of accounts. And there are a couple of more.
But never have I gotten any kind of series of adds from the same dude. Which, seeing as most of my gold-selling offers come from PvPBank, you'd kind of expect them to use the same account in order to control costs... Unless they were banned...
Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
I don't think it's possible to completely rid any game of botting. To promise it would be empty - for any game company.
Swtor and Bioware did it, not a single bot of goldspammer in 7 months and the credits or gold is a big deal on swtor.
Who wants to bot in TOR? Why would a gold seller be in the game? *sarcasm on* isn't TOR an SSO anyway? *sarcasm off*
Actually, you need gold or credits on swtor more than Gw2, so like i said, is a big deal for farmers. i dont know what SSO mean, but i remember swtor with 1.7 mill of players after 3 month of release without a single bot or goldspammer ingame, or even hacks, GW2 is also full of them. Not even a month on gw2 and the active population is dropin fast everyday, even worse after MoP launch, 1 day before MoP: 11 full servers on NA. One day After MoP just 1 Full server on NA, not a single one in europe.
Yesterday you claimed Anet lies about its server status, but now that their server status seems to support your new lie you use their server numbers in your argument?
Other people have already disputed your claim of no gold sellers in Swtor. Your obvious bias and uninformed hatred of GW2 makes you a dubious source of information.
Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
Totally ineffective so far, every choke point DE in the game is infected with numerous bots.
Selling gold via third party shills, gives Anet deniability while they still manage to deflate player income and increase Anet's revenues.
I'm a firm believer in the old saying "Even the paranoid have enemies"... but I have limts. You sir/mam have just exeeded that limit.
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Carefully worded PR baloney. Note they never promised to actually rid that game of this.
NO developer can prevent all bots. It simply can't be done.
At least they address it. Blizzard has an epidemic of bots in D3 that are getting items or gold to sell in the RMAH. They don't say squat and there are sites out there with publicly available bots. It's really discouraging that even Blizzard can't/won't put a dent in them.
I'm not even sure what the solution is other than encrypted memory which would slow down everything. Even then, bot makers would just work on pattern recognition in each frame displayed to the screen.
For me, outside of gold farming I have never seen the issue with players who want to bot overnight to gain levels. It is to me no different than those who use cheat codes to beat games faster. If anything, this does not hurt ArenaNet at all. In fact I believe the only reason they're attacking botting users (I have to say right here I am not one as I'd rather not have my account terminated) is because the large outcry from the community.
In a game in which its PVP and PVE content no way afflict eachother I see no reason to ban anyone using a bot. Why I see this is because people like me who have quit the PVE portion of the game due to poor main line quest level scaling. I do not enjoy how I have to spend 3 hours gaining 3 levels every 10-15 minute bits of my story. It's not fun. I have no fun in exploring the world and chasing events all day, truly. If I could without termination I would AFK bot it away to the select level to continue my story line. This way I could actually do other stuff in the background that I enjoy.
Swtor and Bioware did it, not a single bot of goldspammer in 7 months and the credits or gold is a big deal on swtor.
Actually, you need gold or credits on swtor more than Gw2, so like i said, is a big deal for farmers. i dont know what SSO mean, but i remember swtor with 1.7 mill of players after 3 month of release without a single bot or goldspammer ingame, or even hacks, GW2 is also full of them. Not even a month on gw2 and the active population is dropin fast everyday, even worse after MoP launch, 1 day before MoP: 11 full servers on NA. One day After MoP just 1 Full server on NA, not a single one in europe.
Actually, you need gold LESS than you do in GW2. GW2 the only fast way to get exotics is gold, some mystic forge/crafting combination needs gold and travelling is expensive.
In swtor travelling cost you pretty much nothing, and the only place you would spend money on is getting augmentation and equipment with augmented slot - and that is NOT EVEN REMOTELY IMPORTANT if you don't plan to min/max every detail in pvp (as just getting BM/WH set is okay, it is only slightly less powerful if you don't get augments). And money can EASY BE FARMED through dailies.
Also, there are heaps of bots and gold spammers in swtor.
So you are wrong on both counts.
If you post 1 more misinformation you can have a hattrick, lol.
Players earning decent incomes off dungeons and farming certain DE's, Nerfed overnight.
Bots (which help deflate player income and boost gem sales) still expanding.
Penitent Path should be called 'Bot Way" now. How many specialist do you need to log in and stand in Penitent Path for 2 minutes?
You can't walk two steps, anywhere in Cursed Shore, the only end game level 80 zone, withoutseeing multiple bots ruining everyone's experience.
Or perhaps Penitent Path should be named "Kill Steal Path", the game that was supposed to have gotten rid of kill stealing, now has kill stealing up the wazoo thanks to so many bots. The multiple bots kill the DE mobs so fast, often you get no credit for tagging any mob or get any loot. Yes sir, that is FUN!!!
Anet's actions have yielded nothing but an increase in Bots.
When a big corporation like NC soft and it's flunky subsets like Anet plan on doing nothing, they give you slick PR promising to to something.
When a corporation wants someting done, like nerf player income, it happens overnight.
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Actually, you need gold or credits on swtor more than Gw2, so like i said, is a big deal for farmers. i dont know what SSO mean, but i remember swtor with 1.7 mill of players after 3 month of release without a single bot or goldspammer ingame, or even hacks, GW2 is also full of them. Not even a month on gw2 and the active population is dropin fast everyday, even worse after MoP launch, 1 day before MoP: 11 full servers on NA. One day After MoP just 1 Full server on NA, not a single one in europe.
Yep, the game would often just crash as you came running into town by the bombardment of gold selling spam. Going back to town was always a risky proposition at peak hours. I've seen it bad in F2P games, but CABAL takes the title without any contest from any of the other games I played.
WoW doesn't ban gold buyers either. They just take all the gold off the account.
My theme song.
Funny observation:
- you highlighted the part you needed but left out the answer to your question that was in the same line
and we very much appreciate your assistance in identifying and eliminating them.
So much about the "no mention about taking action".
Spotted and reported multiple Bots and Hackers in the past few weeks.
-One case, 2 players were following a 3 step DE in the morning my time, saw them still there later that afternoon, and when I checked back later that night they were still at it.
-The other one I 'Love' are the Rangers, Fire an Arrow, recoil backwards, and then vanish to reappear at some distant mob. On Ehmry Bay, 'Xiao Nan' and 'Stichy' were doing that for at least 2 days in a row that I noticed.
Did we play the same SWTOR? I remember getting multiple in-game mails in SWTOR with gold selling advertisements back when I played. Doing a quick google search for swtor gold brings up as many hits for gold selling sites as for any other major MMO, as well. I haven't played since release month, but it seems you're a bit off-base here.
I miss DAoC
The last two times I played GW2 I encountered bots, but I am only realizing this in retrospect.
The first time was a ranger who seemed to be logged in and farming the same spot over and over again for hours and hours. He was alone though. I did find it odd that he seemed to not have moved and was still on killing things.
Second time was very annoying. I encountered a group of 5 higher level toons all stuck to each other that teleported into the DE I was just starting on, they killed everything onsite very quickly, which kept me from being able to loot anything at all, and before I knew it they had ported out somewhere else. They literally slaughtered everything in site before I could get a shot. Their names were also not French names though I am on a French server.
Not having had time to check up on the bot issue, I did wonder if I had indeed encountered bots, but I wasn't sure so I did not report them. I wish I had now.
I rarely buy/sell on the market (less than a handful of times since I prefer to salvage crafting materials... more valuable than selling them on the market) so haven't looked at the prices really.
Playing MUDs and MMOs since 1994.
lol. That's right up there with ANet secretly bots to sell gold on the side...
Don't you know? Thats a game, they buy an account and bot until enough people report them, then they sell their winnings. The better the spot, the more money they make off it. Its like a strategic game of chance, only there's money involved.
That's exactly how they do it. You go to their site, they plant a key-logger (thank you Java, Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, et.al. for all those security holes), they sell you some gold. And after they collect your account information from your trojaned computer, they relieve you of the gold and sell it to the next sucker.
Personally, I think you have to be at least six kinds of stupid to buy gold at this point in time. Same goes with modding and add-ons. I mean, come on, these people are dishonest. They steal accounts. They break the rules for a living. Why do people not think they're not going to turn on you? Have you never heard the expression --- there is no honor among thieves?
Actually, I know CCP does that in EVE, wasn't aware Blizzard had the same policy, never really saw a post from anyone who said that had happened to them in WOW.
Definitely not the standard practice in the industry.
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No they didn't. I played SWTOR. I got advertisements during EGA and until I quit in boredom in January. And not only gold, but power-leveling. Something I was really surprised to see seeing as you could power-level yourself to 50 in 30 hours if you used the spacebar.
They can do an official apology for not protecting their game server-side against teleportation hacks and movement speed hacks. That would convince me that they are genuine.
lol. I've never gotten a gold-seller message from the same account twice. Same company. PvPBank hijacks a lot of accounts. And there are a couple of more.
But never have I gotten any kind of series of adds from the same dude. Which, seeing as most of my gold-selling offers come from PvPBank, you'd kind of expect them to use the same account in order to control costs... Unless they were banned...
I think you tinfoil hat is a little too tight. Your claims are absurd.
Yesterday you claimed Anet lies about its server status, but now that their server status seems to support your new lie you use their server numbers in your argument?
Other people have already disputed your claim of no gold sellers in Swtor. Your obvious bias and uninformed hatred of GW2 makes you a dubious source of information.
I'm a firm believer in the old saying "Even the paranoid have enemies"... but I have limts. You sir/mam have just exeeded that limit.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
NO developer can prevent all bots. It simply can't be done.
At least they address it. Blizzard has an epidemic of bots in D3 that are getting items or gold to sell in the RMAH. They don't say squat and there are sites out there with publicly available bots. It's really discouraging that even Blizzard can't/won't put a dent in them.
I'm not even sure what the solution is other than encrypted memory which would slow down everything. Even then, bot makers would just work on pattern recognition in each frame displayed to the screen.
For me, outside of gold farming I have never seen the issue with players who want to bot overnight to gain levels. It is to me no different than those who use cheat codes to beat games faster. If anything, this does not hurt ArenaNet at all. In fact I believe the only reason they're attacking botting users (I have to say right here I am not one as I'd rather not have my account terminated) is because the large outcry from the community.
In a game in which its PVP and PVE content no way afflict eachother I see no reason to ban anyone using a bot. Why I see this is because people like me who have quit the PVE portion of the game due to poor main line quest level scaling. I do not enjoy how I have to spend 3 hours gaining 3 levels every 10-15 minute bits of my story. It's not fun. I have no fun in exploring the world and chasing events all day, truly. If I could without termination I would AFK bot it away to the select level to continue my story line. This way I could actually do other stuff in the background that I enjoy.
Actually, you need gold LESS than you do in GW2. GW2 the only fast way to get exotics is gold, some mystic forge/crafting combination needs gold and travelling is expensive.
In swtor travelling cost you pretty much nothing, and the only place you would spend money on is getting augmentation and equipment with augmented slot - and that is NOT EVEN REMOTELY IMPORTANT if you don't plan to min/max every detail in pvp (as just getting BM/WH set is okay, it is only slightly less powerful if you don't get augments). And money can EASY BE FARMED through dailies.
Also, there are heaps of bots and gold spammers in swtor.
So you are wrong on both counts.
If you post 1 more misinformation you can have a hattrick, lol.
Actions speak louder than words.
Players earning decent incomes off dungeons and farming certain DE's, Nerfed overnight.
Bots (which help deflate player income and boost gem sales) still expanding.
Penitent Path should be called 'Bot Way" now. How many specialist do you need to log in and stand in Penitent Path for 2 minutes?
You can't walk two steps, anywhere in Cursed Shore, the only end game level 80 zone, withoutseeing multiple bots ruining everyone's experience.
Or perhaps Penitent Path should be named "Kill Steal Path", the game that was supposed to have gotten rid of kill stealing, now has kill stealing up the wazoo thanks to so many bots. The multiple bots kill the DE mobs so fast, often you get no credit for tagging any mob or get any loot. Yes sir, that is FUN!!!
Anet's actions have yielded nothing but an increase in Bots.
When a big corporation like NC soft and it's flunky subsets like Anet plan on doing nothing, they give you slick PR promising to to something.
When a corporation wants someting done, like nerf player income, it happens overnight.