Firebaall.5127

Report them. Encourage others to report them. It is botting plain and simple. These players aren't just autorunning. They use skills on macros to keep from being timed out, no different than those necro MM botters you see everywhere. Anet needs to start taking action against them. They need to plainly state their policy against this behaviour specifically so there can be no doubt that it is wrong. Anet is at fault as much as these cheating players are. In Maguuma, in particular it's spectacularly bad. Today, for example, along the backwall I counted (and reported) 30 plus players hiding and running against the walls. Hours later many were still there. The queue was hitting over 50 at the time, and there was a very noticeable lack of active players defending, fighting, and otherwise playing normally. It affected everyone playing in a detrimental fashion. At it's best, it's denying others the chance to play due to selfish aholes not wanting to wait their turn to play. In reality, it's a form of match manipulation that sees significant changes in territory held, and an inability to fight back. If you're ok with this Anet, say so. I'll stop reporting it, and I'll start doing the same. I don't like waiting for queues either.

Almost a year later, and still a big issue. Offer a bounty system that rewards players for reporting these players for what they are doing. It's botting, and it affects other players by locking them out of content. Encourage players to report, so that people actually report them when they see them. As it sits now, people are so jaded, they don't report at all anymore. If you offer a reward, and players know they'll get some gold or other item in the mail, they'll report. It will also cause chronic abusers to get multiple reports, and make it CLEAR to Anet who the problem players are. Anet this is a problem you've let fester for years. Get on it.

And that's great if you're safely behind a "full" and locked server, or you don't get screwed over by server links every couple of months. Your point of view is incredibly narrow, and selfish.

I'm glad there's outrage. The RNG bullshit has been in GW2 from the start (BLC keys), and they are testing the limits that their customers will put up with. Well, we're at those limits Anet. Do you understand what that means? Was it worth it to find out how scummy you could get before you got significant push back from your customers and held up by the media as a joke? You're there now. The question now is: "What are you going to do about it"? I'd like to see a removal of ALL RNG items from the gemstore (including BLC keys). Sell your items for a set price, and stop taking advantage of human nature to increase your bottom line. It's to a point that I'd like to see governmental regulations put in place to stop gaming companies from skirting responsibilities in reaping GAMBLING profits. Your move Anet. Lets see if you can step up.

The bounty system is a lazy content filler that gets boring quick.