KingstonWD.2047

Can't agree more. Though i would share that the past few days as a solo i get in a completely solo team , but the enemy teams have like 2 duo premades on them.Like what ? :D Imagine both duos have coms(individually ofc) , they are already way more organised, then us bunch of randos and even if they don't , they for sure have a better plan beforehand and idea of what they want to do together. It's absurd...

I learned during season 6, that you get ostracized when you take bold actions to expose these activities. Many people within the community who partake in them begin to view you as an enemy, and will even make sport of going out of their way to make your matches worse than they are now. They like to give people subtle reminders of why they should be keeping their mouths shut. When I had mentioned in previous threads that: "The top of our leaderboards are controlled & moderated by a fascist like inner-circle, who picks & chooses who they like and don't like, and who plays high and who doesn't" I wasn't joking around about that, and I had chosen the usage of my words carefully. The other thing I learned is that no matter how loud we get about exposing players who are participating in this, nothing we do matters unless Arenanet cares and wants to take real action against it. So far the best we've seen is wrist slapping and single season suspensions, and then main culprits are allowed right back in to do it again. I often wonder if this is because they do not want to ban players who offer free commercialism via twitch, which I would fully understand to be perfectly honest. If this is the case, I would say to Arenanet that it is important to recognize at this point, that this free commercialization is no longer helping to strengthen Arenanet's product. It only helps strengthen the repute of the streamers themselves. In truth, they are ruining Arenanet's product and running off the consumer base in the process. All in all I can't help but believe that Arenanet already knows exactly what's going on and who is involved. If I could learn so much simply through interacting with the community in-game, I couldn't imagine what Arenanet must know with the mechanisms they have access to. A junior networker could come in on an internship, getting paid nothing, monitor the servers for even just 24 hours, and get a strong handle on all of the patterns and what was going on. Can you imagine what he would see if he did this for an entire pvp season? The patterns of IP addresses in que and who they happen to que with alone, would have to yield enough incriminating evidence to clean up this problem, yet here we are, it is still happening, it gets worse each season because it goes unchecked. After really sitting and considering the above ^ I believe it is being allowed to happen on purpose, for whatever reason that may be. The hilarious thing about all of this, is that it was enabled through solo/duo only que. If we want to play, we are forced to feed the match manipulation activity, because we can no longer que as a 5 man team to block ourselves from it. Just a heads up, be careful how you go about exposing any of this. Always do it anonymously, and make sure no one knows that you are doing it all. Ahhh, you hit the the spot here mate!This is soooo true, so much changes need to happen. Sadly nothing will. I guess all we have left is to just try to enjoy wether you win or lose.I guess its time for us to build an "inhouse" type of PvP where we get people in a guild and we organise our small tournaments in the guild pvp arena or we open exclusive custom arenas and we have a dedicated website for this inhouses to be announced and organised.If there is anything like this, please hit me up i probably have missed it!

Can't argue you guys are somewhat right. By somewhat i mean that for some reason i like the combo between the three which puts me in a verysmall percentage, but the other part of the somewhat is that, it was indeed a sloppy work.

In that sense, they could have made it so that the raiders have their own legendary trinket set, like how we have PvP legendary armor, WvW, and PvE , same thing.I guess thats my view on it, but its a bit weird to me at least we just get 2 free open world legendary trinkets and then put a specifically raid one into a big set.Lets face it even if you want to raid there are people who can't do it often or get that much into it. Its a bit more niche at least at the moment.

Hello guys! So i know the thread name is a bit weird, but i was thinking something the other day that might have been discussed around, butso far i have not seen anyone really talk much about(or i might be blind, who knows ? ).. Anywho, i was thinking, we get Aurora and we get Vision and they are purely doing achievement base in open world, run around collect stuff, do thisdo that , its generally available and easy/moderate content for everyone as in, everyone can easily do it and its mostly content the majority of the player base do,let it be often or not. So from what i understand for Coalescence we need to raid, but i was thinking, what if you dont like to raid? It's a very specific game mode in the whole PvE aspect.Open world where Aurora and Vision fit is a very common thing we all went through from leveling, to daily tasks, in reality its a very general thing which providesgood basis for getting those trinkets. But Since the legendary trinkets are a SET in a way and to get the full emmersion of the effect, you need to collect them all,like it or not. But now we have Coalescence, which requires us to do raids. So what if a person does not enjoy raids ? What if someone can't fit himself to raid, we are kind of pushedtowards to raid in order to complete our set? I might be missing a piece of a puzzle about Coalescence and you might be able to finish it withouth needing to raid , might have understood it wrongly,so people do correct me if that is the case. Thank you for taking your time to read this.

3-4 k games per season, you think a human being can do? one would assume im not talking about the obvious bots.Me and other people talking in this post, pretty much are referring to this kind of OBVIOUS bots . Would not accuse someone if im not 1000% sure andhave observed it for more than a day or two.E.g I will not just accuse someone of being a bot, because they played a bit badly or were silent all game...

A good suggestion how to get back to us, if anything is being done on the reports , is something i have seen in other games(particularly mobile MOBAS). Once you report players, and the support/company made a review did their job properly, the player receives notification that sayssomething in the lines of : " Action has been taken on one or more people you have reported, Thank you for your cooperation! "That way you know, "hey , my reports actually was taken action for and someone received their needed penalty " .This way, i don't know who it is, or how many people received penalty, bu the support/company has notified me that i did make an impact to thegame by sending my report of the certain cheater , exploiter etc. I feel this could be implemented here, small in-game mails , set it monthly or weekly, that you receive ONLY if your report has helped supporttake action against a potential player.

I understand Arena Net don't want to provide any information regarding the botting, but this is getting out of hand and im seriously annoyed by it ! Yestarday and Today, in Ranked que, i get 3 people botting in my team , 3 freaking people !They all run the same build, they all run the same path. Since the other team might have gotten ahead of what is going on, the bots would just rush all 3 close point,the other team would capture Far and Middle and just sit out our home. They would do this over and over again, the 3 bots would spam the same skills, run together in same small group , do exactly everything together in the same timing, withouth being in a pre-made(incase you though it would be a pre-made duo queing). I have seen even revenants bot now ? They do the same thing, spam their auras and wait till the clock for start game hit 0, then they start moving.All the bots i saw work that way, Wait for clock to hit 0, start moving towards close or middle. Proceede, with dashing out all your combo wombos, and then survive till the next(not saying some playrs dont play that way), but this people were the same over and over, i keep reporting , keep sending tickets for various reasons. How am i supposed to enjoy this, when in Ranked que, i get 3 bots in my game that do stupid patterns and we get obliterated because of that? Arenanet, please fix this, dont ignore it with just a simple copy-paste from a notepad reply...We invets in you, so that we can get quality game, not a copy-paste notepad reply!