[PVP Solo/Duo System]

@Zawn.9647 said:Its a huge advantage to be in duo with comms. Duos should not compete with solo players. If you want to duo, fine... Go play unranked. Or add an option to the ranked queue that allow me to not play against duo's when im solo (like 99.99% of the time)

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...

[5 matches, 5 match manipulaters.]

@Trevor Boyer.6524 said:

@"sephiroth.4217" said:I had 5 games, each with someone throwing.Map chat is "ill pay everyone on the enemy team 10g to let me win"..

Got annoyed, figured I would start recording and post to the world the state of GW2 PvP, told a dude I had him and his guild recorded (well known guild too from ATs).. He started playing properly after that and we almost won after being down 200 points.

If anyone is good with video editing, make a montage of several matches being thrown and manipulated.. Post it up on these forums, other forums and hopefully something gets done about it.

End rant, sorry guys just frustrated that my game time today was nothing but pure frustration.

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!

[Botting problem]

@Stand The Wall.6987 said:

@megilandil.7506 said:

@Stand The Wall.6987 said:I wonder how many supposed bots are actually bots.

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...

[Botting problem]

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.

[Botting problem]

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?

We do not communicate about the actions taken and you cannot always see its effectsHow does that help? We have 0 idea if you guys are doing anything about this? We keep getting bots, idle players and plain leavers, and we all get is,that you are investigating each report, but can't tell us about it. At least some heads up, some info? This is super annoying. I love PvP, i might not be the highest ranks or the top player, but i just wish i could have 1 game where there is no Bot, either in my team or my enemy team, a normal nice match..

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!