A Note on Botting and Kurzick/Luxon Titles

"Kurzick and Luxon titles is almost impossible to achieve"

Right, and so is amassing the sheer volume of ectos need to buy a mini Panda... does that mean we can run Bots scamming fools out of their ectos in LA and at worst suffer a two week suspension? I guess so because so many players have achieved the 'near impossible' task of maxing the Kurzick and/or Luxon titles... far fewer have amassed the wealth needed for an extremely prestigious mini pet.

Many of the GW titles are silly, grindy to the extreme and rather pointless... we've known this for ages. The solution would be to fix the titles, or better yet, put a bit more thought into them BEFORE they were introduced (Hint: Really think about the impact of titles in GW2)... or you could just condone botting 'because they're too hard'.

I wonder what else is 'too hard' and thus justifies the use of bots...

Disgusted.

Edit: I'm thinking that a certain 117 former (and some still current) Guild Wars players found Mallyx to be 'Too hard' as well, they might like an apology and their accounts back? I mean, if botting is now acceptable...

Arenanet once did something amazing, they released a very cool, competitive yet social (MMO-like) game, and without the monthly fees. Amazingly good graphics for an MMO (-like game) at the time of release... seems lately they can do no right.

Disgusted and dumbfounded.

This is total BS! So yet again the people who made the effort to do the titles the proper way are given the finger by anet.

Listen Anet, a bot is a bot, just because someone thinks its too hard doesnt allow them to decide the rules dont apply to them.

Ive just decided getting the RA title is unrealistic - according to your rules this is now fair for me to run a bot there then....

Well, Both titles arn't "hard too achieve". Hard to achieve in the sence of casual gamer being able to get it with alot of effort/skill.

It IS impossible for a casual gamer to max these titles, as it requires no-lifeing.
It's not a question of "hard", it's a question of reasonable grind, and unreasonable grind.

There is no skill whatsoever involved, as shown a bot could do it. What DOES this title currently represent:

This person can bot

or

This person wasted 1000+ hours sitting at his computers, doing a repetitive 1m 20s cycle, for the past 2 months, in this so called "game" (Which is supposed to be fun, remember) called G -rind- uild Wars.

there is NO grey area to this... ban them and keep the bans.

My opinion has always been that these titles are just plain absurd and unattainable to anyone wishing to retain a shred of sanity.

6 month ban would be probably be worth it.

But again, long long time ago people have commented on potential issues with titles. Wouldn't it be just better to reduce the numbers? Anywhere between 10 and 100 would be reasonable. Some other titles could benefit from that.

Nah, this one is completely and entirely in the "No life" category. So are many other titles.

Botting always looked like so much fun. They should bump down the max for the alliance titles, but then the ppl that all ready maxed them are ganna complain :S.

A no-lifer could max these titles in a couple of months, a bot in far less time... a hardcore player (bordering on the obsessive no-lifer stereotype) could max both in six months... now how long have these titles been available in the game? and why do you have to have them maxed even if you're not willing to put in the effort?

The titles are too long and grindy for the casual player, absolutely... so the casual player can choose NOT to max them, or even pursue them at all... or they could bot them, I guess. Hopefully Anet will really consider the impact of titles in GW2, both the effects of titles ingame (when linked to skills or other 'tangible' benefits) as well as the time and effort required to obtain them.

Fixed it for you.

I don't really care one way or the other about the bans. It's Anet's game and they can let in and keep out whoever they feel like.

All I have to say to this is that I recently maxed my Kurzick title from off and on hffing over the last year. It's possible to get this title, people are just lazy and want the benefit w/o the work...

Nah it's more like

Translation: We were on crack and the grind for these 2 titles is so hard and goes against the original design of our game.

Solution: We're going to make the grind go away like we promised we would a long time ago.

No, HA title is hard, RA title is hard (part of the original design I believe)etc. Doing AB (which is in the same pvp category) cannot be considered a grind any more than these other areas and the factions title is easier to obtain than the others in this category.

from some1 else, "2 week ban? That doesn't exactly send a strong message about enforcing the rules. It's not like botting is the same as the swear filter that we have the option of turning on and off."

sure it does, cause its halloween!!

seems like most ppl are missing the point that gaile gray said the g15 macro function was ok so ppl were using it and got banned for it. now anet is rectifing it by issuing an official statement and letting the people who were misinformed by gaile to get their accounts back.

i love when ppl dont read

It is not okay to say filtered words in game ever...

(j) In the Game(s), characters have the privilege of sending server wide messages called "Chat Messages." With this privilege comes a high level of responsibility on the part of the user. Due to the fact that this communication channel has the ability to impact every player on the server, NC Interactive will not tolerate any inappropriate behavior of any sort in this chat channel. This includes but is not limited to: inappropriate language of any sort or any attempt to escape the profanity filter, inappropriate or vulgar content of any sort, repeated "spamming," or "flooding" of the chat messages channel, or any other conduct determined to be inappropriate by NC Interactive Support, in its sole discretion. Any violation of this term or rules of conduct may, in the sole discretion of NC Interactive, lead to the temporary removal of the character's ability to communicate, the account being suspended for a set period of time, or lead to permanent account closure.

thats funny cause i only got a 3 day ban for the f word

Let's try to stay on topic, or at least discuss the original purpose of the thread in our posts as well please.

Nooooooo-oh. Nooooooooooooo-ho-ho, no.

ANet, you can't say "We do not condone the use of bots" in one line and renege with "two-week suspension" in the next.

If there was any question in drawing the line between what were bots and what was not, then you should have recognized that question and defined that for everyone beforehand. In addition, you're begging for rules to be broken if this action resulting in "account termination" can be shortened to a simple two-weeks vacation.

Stop making exceptions. Stop making excuses.

We got a winner here^


Personally I would like these titles, however I enjoy playing different aspects of the game instead of passing time doing the same thing. I don't recall any HFFF bots before the event, It's not surprising that ppl use bots for this title aswell.

The next big game update better be thought well before released. I guess we'll find out soon.


Uuhhhhh that's it I think xD

You know if they just double the faction earned in AB, the problem would be solved. No need for a rebalance. Even now I think its fine.

RA needs a rebalance, I mean 5 wins a row? How many people now can stay logged in for 5 matches in a row?

Anet supports botting, heard it here first