Mass Bannings?

Apparently there are mass bannings going on right now. My ally had recorded 13 of them so far. Anyone know if its JQ bots getting dhuumed?

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/m...t10494683.html

RA and JQ yup.

One of my guildmates said he found out one of his accounts that got hacked about two months ago was seen getting Dhuum'd about twenty minutes ago.

It's mass hysteria!

Might be a stealthy reason for this flux tbh

i have a notification from Arenanet confimring all but 1 of 23 accounts submitted in a ticket that are banned for botting. may be a way to let others know that missed Dhuum that they are still at work. what better way than coming back from AFK to see ur dead...OH COOL ANET BANNED SOMEONE...CUZ IM DEAD FROM THE MINIONS

I would just like to say thankyou to Anet for finally doing something and banning all those bots. Yes it took a while but at least when the majority of the populace starts to complain they take note and act. Lets hope that it never gets as bad again.

I'd like to do a self congratulatory victory lap for saying yesterday that the current flux could be a vehicle to finally clear out bots in PvP.

Nice to know we get a twofer for this Flux.

This tends to happen in a game when mass amounts of people run bots which make mass amounts of players who have lets say, "achieved Savior of ... without botting" and complain to ArenaNet.

That's what people get for cheating. Never understood why people need to do this. Pathetic.

thought i could share a link - privacy given but...there were about 20 names listed and u can see i asked them to check the account logs of those accounts...thats all i do, find a suspected bot, screenshot, finish playing then send in a ticket with a bulk of names, wait for reply...tada...

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...untitled-9.jpg
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welcome to a day in my shoes

WELL i gotta get the image to update, but i give a copy of my screenshot of what it looked like in my email(email will be hidden of course)

Wait, was there actually a mass bot ban or was it just one guy getting dhuumed and the minions killing everything else?

I got reports from in game friends saying multiple people were getting dhuumed in RA and JQ. I think around 20-30 accounts are no more and mass might have been too strong a word.

Thanks Anet, this was desperately needed

Great to hear there are people banned for botting. But it also made me wonder, the damage from the quickening terrain flux also worked in outposts (the flux where you take damage when you run too fast). When people are dhuumed in a PvP outpost, is this months flux kicking in as well?

-edit, never mind, didn't see other posts and the update notice -

Try to keep in mind that it's doubtful whether the botting problem would be so widespread if not for Anet's insistence on keeping mum.

While I'm hopeful that the bots are being hit by a ban-sweep, I'm wondering if all the Dhuuming happening right now is people forcing a temp-ban by being really offensive in local chat just to trigger the flux.

Since the Dhuum visit was implemented for bans, I've seen various people do this "for the lulz." I'd imagine after word of the first outpost Apocalypse spread, people might be aiming for "extra lulz."

Have they hit the new pvp bots yet?

Just added a link at my above post, check it out

http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/a...untitled-9.jpg

i listed enough names in the RED stacking each name on top of each other...thats about 20 names....and read the response from the GM's

That is very is true.

One of my friends got himself banned on purpose which caused the Minions in RA to start, a guy b4 him got banned but the minions targeted someone with high HP and they died. The minions he caused ended up being the ban that kept the minions up the longest in RA. He sent me a few screenshots of his ban.
He saw the minions in JQ and wanted to start one in RA.

hope they gonna do something about new pvp interrupt bots