Seventh Ranger.3968 Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 It's gotten to the point now where almost every single ranked match has at least one bot in it, and it's an extremely rare occurrence to get a game with 10 real people. It's made ranked pretty much unplayable, since the vast majority of the time, matches are decided by which team got the most bot accounts afking on it. Their behaviours are always the same, and easily recognizable: auto-running into walls all game, or self-tormenting in base (for Revenant bots). Some names that I'm sure everyone has seen around are Redrfkk, Eignart, Hate(with a french accent on the e), and X Rogue One X. These are programs, not real players and they, along with many other bots, are ruining everyone's matches because pvp rewards aren't tied to any kind of participation, so these bots are just being created to farm rewards at the cost of our pvp matches. Anet, this is getting way out of hand. If you guys pay any attention to these forums, please respond, and start by banning the aforementioned bots. Almost any pvp player can confirm they're bots, we've all run into them many times. Not to mention the fact that they're always online playing pvp matches non-stop, with nothing but losses, should be a dead giveaway that they aren't human. 3 3 3 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belisaria.8136 Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 Not a single dev has said a single thing in almost 3 weeks, and I don't think today's gonna be different, friend. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythical.6315 Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Be prepared for this thread to be locked and your complaint dismissed with a copy pasted post to use the in game reporting system that is essentially a black hole. 2 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elementalist Owner.7802 Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 This is a population issue more than a bot issue. The reason you notice so many bots is because there are so few people playing PvP that the player-to-bot ratio is getting out of control. It's the same reason why the absolute best players in the game who have won global championship tournaments can't even reach legendary division on NA. A matchmaking system needs a decent amount of players to work correctly. 1 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mythical.6315 Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 13 hours ago, Elementalist Owner.7802 said: This is a population issue more than a bot issue. The reason you notice so many bots is because there are so few people playing PvP that the player-to-bot ratio is getting out of control. It's the same reason why the absolute best players in the game who have won global championship tournaments can't even reach legendary division on NA. A matchmaking system needs a decent amount of players to work correctly. That's like saying Detroit (in the USA) has such a high crime rate because it doesn't have enough people that don't do crime. As if you're suggesting that the solution is to just increase the population (in both cases) to make the percentages look better rather than address the core issue. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagie.7612 Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 13 minutes ago, mythical.6315 said: As if you're suggesting that the solution is to just increase the population (in both cases) to make the percentages look better rather than address the core issue. It's not really a solution, no, but it would help. To a degree bots are unavoidable, they're always going to be around and keeping them fully gone isn't possible. That's true of virtually every game, even ones with a healthy population. If 1/100 of your games is ruined by a bot, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter and you as a player probably won't even remember it after a day. As that percentage goes up it does start to be significantly more mood and rating ruining. The only real solution in the end is to actively put in the time to police the game, there is no replacement for enforcement and all the suggestions from the community about ways to (largely automatically) address it are poor solutions, tbh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXruina.4956 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 just play something else, trust me, there's no point sticking to it, you're only going to punish yourself. 🙂 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qori.9671 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Anet makes the bots to create the illusion people still play that piece of skritt , that is why they don't ban them =P 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundoor.5630 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Which region is this? I've been playing for 10 months now and only seen bots once during an automated tournament. Also, in normal ranked pvp, how do bots get past the bronze division? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Moderator.3419 Posted April 17, 2023 Share Posted April 17, 2023 Hi everyone, If you witness any of these acts while playing, please submit an in-game report or a ticket to our Customer Support team, so they can properly investigate the matter. Regards. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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