Bots do +3000 matches per season with total impunity
Delweyn.1309
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So this time I tried to add some of those bots in my friend list and the proportion of what I discovered is just... unbelievable.
Here it is. And it's just 3 of them.
noelshack.com/2018-52-5-1545987270-image4.jpg
https://imgur.com/a/4714Gcs <--- 9 caught at the end of the season.
The stats are for this season only! And it's not finished.
So what we must understand is
- those bots are just ruining the pvp game experience for so many players, with total impunity
- imagine how many gold they got and how many gems they can get each season! Make you dream no ?
So for the moment, 1 bot made 3424 matches in 45 days, so more than 76 matches per day.
At the end of this season, it will have like 4256 matches played.
This is for 1 bot and as I said in another tread, there are many of them.
76 matches X (8 minutes match + 5 minutes for queue and preparation) = 988 minutes/day = average 16 hours par day everyday (for 45 days streak, atm)
Maybe pointing this can make Anet do their job, because it hits in their wallet
or...with so many reports, time passing and same bots still here, giving all details about them, no answer at all from Anet...
I hide the account's name for not giving anet an excuse to close this thread.
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Im not a PvP Player but would not just the sheer number of games played this season indicate a Bot?
I mean... 3k games? I this even humanly possible?
A game is about 8-10 minutes. You can count that + taking into account the waiting time in the lobby + time spend before games really launch.
It's why I'm questioning about Anet.
After watching how these bots are working and giving all the details + reports, I still see them by 2 sometimes at every matches.
There is something fishy about all of this, really...
One other thing.
I first thought to be a meme lord and comment:
Mesmer is the true killer of PvP.
But then i read your other post about how most Bots are Mirage´s.
Soooo.... would removing the bots not result in ALOT less Mirage´s in low lvl play and therefor more new People enjoying PvP?
Big Think
True because those mirage bots are real average players killers. They insta pull their skills, get invisible or invincible, and spamming clones everywhere in condi mode and tracking their focus to the death.
These bots are ranked higher than I expected
As I said, they are not so easy to fight. They just lose in games where they run solo in mid against 3 or 4 ennemies.
DanAlcado makes a decent point then about Mirages
the rewards for winning 1643 is
4732 Gold
32760 Shard of Glory
18200 Ascended Shards of Glory
1092 Unidentified Dye
and the reward for losing 1781 is 33% of the previous reward of winning 1643 game
that is fun
maybe the bots are run by anet so the pvp queues are not too long ?
i see all the bots in this screen are low level (understandable) so from a PvP point of view if you can climb it's not even worth it. As long as i don't have them on my team i don't really care. I'm not playing PvP for the reward.
Oh my god ... they make so much $ irl money xD
there are numerous problems in fact
plottwist
they made by anet to fill the gamemode. thus the amount of players goin at eatchothers throat for behaving like that in matches is the only sane community part left in the game.
Math seems wrong on ascended shards. That's a lot of gold though.
1643 win that mean he can complete the final chest 182 times each time he get 100 so it's fun to play bots
Is this NA or EU?
Obviously EU
sugoi monogatari oniichan
@Ben Phongluangtham.1065 I wonder if, since you guys see game stats, you ever consider checking on games of people with absurdly high matches played with reports attached to their account.
Tingle my stingleberry
Rewards are
With all dyes and pvp potions reward track that boost all and all trash items.
So those 3 in loop.
It's just scandalous for all players who put efforts to make some golds.
Bronze league means you're worse than a bot. Bots have been occupying mid-silver for over a year.
Theres a few reasons why i probably wont play this game in 2019. And this is just more iceing on the cake. 6 years and still no game mode for pvp same old conquest, 2v2 swiss is a fart in the wind. I have no idea when that will actually drop. In my veteran players mind theres more discouraging reasons to not play this game today then there ever was in the past.
sad
/15sads
te lazla otstara.
fingers crossed meta ~
with all that Ascended Shards of Glory and Gold i can craft legendary PvP armor and buy eternity in less than 1 season
so where i can find this bot program ....... (this is just between you and me dont snitch on me)
Time to start using those free trials.
Ascended shards of glory was capped at 400 per season. The repeatable Byzantium chest did NOT give ascended shards after the first completion. Has that been changed?
The bots are also getting a bonus pip for top stats every game I would guess too. 3k games is 3k more pips. That's another 16 of the final repeatable chests.
Repeated completions of the final reward tier, Byzantium, continue to reward 100 shards each
Seing that those bots are still running after thousands matches. It's seems really that anet do nothing about it.
I think they do only against the speed/TP/flying hacks that are very obvious to spot for any player and because of videos that harm the image of the game.
As long as bots are moving with just automated actions, they leave them make golds like crazy. The number of matches prove it.
That's pretty blatant. At 10 mins/match, including queue time, these bots are running 24/7 for over three weeks. No human could be doing that, they'd be dead at the keyboard for lack of sleep and food.
OOF - pretty good proof that bots really do exist. Even more funny if they're all mirage.
Not bots, just stronlo's alts.
Maybe it was a illusion all along...
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No they dont fix anything. The only time they actually take action is when someone puts a bit of truth out like how there is a severe lack of caring. Then comments are deleted and you are warned lol.
It's quite sad they have such horrible priorities.
There will probably be a thread closure once people realize Anet bans accounts and not IPs and that free accounts could probably deposit gold or send gold to the main accounts.
I would hope that ArenaNet will track where those bot accounts are sending their gold/loot. Follow the trail. Mercilessly swing ban hammer.
However, history does not make that seem likely. I have never understood when games do not seem to adequately police their game from those that would actively harm it and the community they try to build. I love GW2, how it trys to be many things for many people, and does a reasonably good job for many of them. Truly an accomplishment. But sPvP is very sick. Leaving aside balance issues, sone poor trait and skill design (opinion), low population and lack of options beyond conquest, there are some very bad apples. These players, some very well known, some very skilled, continually poison the well. The manipulations, the abuse, the thumbing their nose at everyone. They never seem to be removed, their consequences for this behavior insubstantial. We suspected and have seen botting, this is ridiculous. My wife has decided to no long play PvP in any real amount. I already hardly play this mode either. I would never be more than an average player without alot more time spent in this mode, but seeing and experiencing the above issues on top of blatant botting is just too much. I was starting to think I should record my few matches, to identify suspected bots...but why bother. I am way too casual to go this route, and the rest of the mode gives me no incentive to spend more time in it. I would rather spend time doing something I enjoy, and it is not PvP as it stands now. I know I am not alone.
I recommend ArenaNet deal with these flagrant abuses, both botting and other manipulations, and let the community see them do it. I also recommend reducing the sheer value of the rewards in favor of PvP-only rewards at least until the integrity of the competition improves. The other options are to just to eliminate PvP, or let it die a slow death. The current state of the mode has caused many, many people to not play it. Proof of blatant botting is the final straw. At least remove the benefits of anyone doing so. Looking forward to a response from ArenaNet on this issue.
Tbh i've never seen a bot in a match. I'm not playing that much in the last 2 seasons (about 500 games on last one, if i remember correctly, and not even 200 games this season), but the numbers on the screenshot simply don't lie.
MINIMUN the community deserves is a a statement from Anet. Like, seriously.
Can confirm. These ‘bots’ are in fact just me on different accounts. How else can I play 5k games per season without looking like a nolifer? Kappa
I think that's why it takes Anet so long to ban those bots and their "owners", they are probably waiting for them to send the Gold/Items so they can track the owners account and ban their main.
However if that's the thing I find it difficult to believe that Anet wouldn't have access to the IP addresses with which the accounts were made.
Worse, thats Anet, they are not aware about it unless players whine hard enough
When i'm logging into GW1 and notice the amount of bots and cheaters, that are doing it for about 6 years, i'm actually wondering if it's that easy to detect them.
Log in Heroes Ascent, you have about 5 real players and easily 50 bots( if not more ) doing it for years now.
What's great is that there are 16k players who've had their games ruined by each bot. So if they're trying to catch the responsible parties, maybe not the smartest way to go about it.
Good question to ask here, just curious for the sake of accumulating data:
What division do you guys play in where you are being teamed with bots so often?
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I've had them all the way in Plat 3 once.
Only once while there though.
Ive either had people on mushrooms or bots in gold.. mostly rage throwers is what I saw though
For every 10 or so rage throwers theres 1 guy who I assume is off his face on something heavy.
As you can see in the screenshot, the one I'm talking about are in silver 1-3.
But they are not all working as efficiently. The one I caught in the videos (I'm uploading atm) is the weakest. It is buggy and can be killed easily (or the owner reduced it's power to not gain too much rank).
But there are mirage bots that can beat easily silver1-3 players in 1v1. As a sniper, at the exact moment that I'm stunning them, they use dodge+invisibility and they run to you en engage with everything.
Screenshot is giving an error. Load to imgur?
The great god Lagki demands sacrifice!
Yeah, and I've seen them in Legendary too.
I call BS on this one.
https://imgur.com/5zqEf1g
Yes, it would result in a lot fewer Mirages, but it doesn't necessarily mean that more new people would enjoy PvP. It could, ironically enough, have the opposite effect. The PvP population is fairly small in GW2 compared to the total number of players, and a not insignificant portion of that population are bots. Matchmaking already has problems (though Anet has done an amazing job imo of making it better) for really low ranked players, and for new players, getting them matched up well because of this low population, and removing bots would only compound the issue. For this to have any real impact on new players (I'm assuming here that the vast majority of new PvP players won't be that great when they start, I think its a fair assumption), they'd have to stick around long enough for matchmaking to figure out what their real skill level is, and for the population to stabilize so that the matchmaker can do its job, and then their experiences should start being better overall.
Eyyyy I unlocked signatures
This situation pretty much sums up what's left of the PvP community.
Rest in Pepperonis.