Curse

legendary4321 · May 14, 2010, 12:50 AM // 00:50

so many bots now, the game really is becoming no fun at all. can u actually start doing something about it before even more people leave your game because of it?

Gift3d · May 14, 2010, 01:15 AM // 01:15

Bots have effectively destroyed high end PvP. This place is the wrong place to bring attention to the issue, because the majority of guru's population is purely PvE.

I'm pretty sure if there was anything ANet could do about it, they would have by now. But look at that, their group of programmers are bamboozled by some simple AutoIt garbage.

Div · May 14, 2010, 01:15 AM // 01:15

The short answer is not really.

They are doing *something* but it's at an insignificant rate compared to the new amount of bots. The problem is that because of their inefficiency and the business hierarchy, they don't have the resources to deal with bots at such a large scale. It's the same reason why they can't even balance the game properly. Also, their priority is not about banning PvP bots, which is arguably harder to catch than PvE bots (I know it's obvious to a human person observing the bot's actions, but it's less obvious than a PvE bot).

Unless there is a better a more responsive way to report bots (than to use /report which rarely gets anything done or to collect tens of screenshots and write essays on why someone is botting to submit the ticket), it's difficult for the community to help them with it. Anet needs a better way to allow the community to police itself, since we know they can't deal with it.

If you have a suggestion, go ahead and post it. Otherwise this thread's not going to go anywhere if it's just a complaint.