Recent Account Bans

Heh...

I admit it. I'm sheepish at how jaded I was at seeing the bots run over this game, and thinking that nothing was going on to deal with them. So angry, that I went in search of the bot scripting sites to find out exactly what was going on.

I know Anet did a great job on this. It seems that each of those cheating cockroaches got what they deserved (as evident in the "banned" posts there).

Thank You.

I doubt it.

The game is old,not many people will find it worth it to do it all again no matter what their motivation is(HoM,friends..) it's hard to justify starting over on a game that's going to be dead in a year or so(or whenever GW2 comes out).

I'm sure some accounts will be sold because of this but I highly doubt that nearly 75% of the people banned will buy another one.

I just became more elite today even without GWAMM status.

The Elite don't need to cheat.

Woot, goodbye and good riddance to rubbish today.

* The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance... So that men will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous

Thank you Anet.

I did the drunkard title, the natural way.

It took me 3 1/2 years.

So yeah, I sort of take an offense to people botting said title. It's a pain in the tailpipe and prolly the only one I'm actually proud of completing since I don't have any serious pvp titles. If anet were to say that it's ok to use though I would be fine with that, after all they've let countless people slide with cart. made easy.

I don't really know how the drunk bot works; but obviously they have an issue with anything that alters the games code, and if it does then it's prolly a bad thing to use.


edit: Oh yeah, ty anet for banning the pvp botters. I ran into a few mesmers running interrupt bots in AB that I never reported but were pretty darn obvious. Seeing a mes switch targets and interrupt quicker then it takes a human eye to even read the skill being used is enough to make you scream at your computer.

so much win ))))))))))))

I used a beeper that went off every few minutes, it took me a week. Granted I didn't sleep much that week. Luckily it was during Wintersday so I had the benefit of playing Snowball Arena as I evaded sleep.

EDIT: Whoops, yeah getting the money for all the alc took me like 6 months to a year in there somewhere.

i've been sifting through this thread and came across something called ksmod. i had no idea that something like this even existed. I'm just interested in enabling high-res textures on other peoples armor in outposts.

will using this mod get me banned?

I don't play religiously, I come and go. But I started on that title just a few weeks after factions came out & didnt finish till eotn. I'm not really a wealthy player, but that wasn't really my point nor should it matter. In my list of all time favorite games, Guild Wars is up there with Xenogears & the ps1 FF games.

Nah,I've been using it for over a year. You're good to go.

Sorry, but i sincerely doubt the people whining here are innocent.

Well the guy with the ironic name you are responding to isn't innocent and have yet to make any real point.

No, you're just as bad as you were before the ban.

On topic: Nicely done anet

And again you make a statement that you are unable to back up. Where is the proof of this?

I have to say, I don't really see how this fixes anything. Almost 4000 people were banned today. 4000 of how many currently active? I would bet that over 50% of these bans were retroactive. So, someone that may have gotten curious for 30 seconds, 4 years ago that could have spent thousands of hours since then gets a retroactive ban instead of things being solved at that point in time. I don't think that would be fair botter or not, there are a lot of people that experiment with them just to see if they work. On top of the fact that banning current and past offenders does nothing to prevent new bots from arising. Guaranteed, this is not the end of the botting problem, people are too intuitive, and why not, they have been given no reason not to be.

Cheating is cheating, theres no middle ground. Off with their heads!

Agreed 100%. Cheaters shall have their eternal souls reaped by the true god of death! BOW BEFORE THE FINAL JUDGE! Kneel before The Ender of All! Know the suffering of Omega Death! Dhuum will come for all those foolish enough to cheat!

am i glad to be ignorant and dumb :P
i never could figure out how to bot.
and i always wanted to do it for titles.

I wish the Goddess of Truth was the one to ban the botters. God knows she needs the PR to win the favour of the players after she irked so many of them in NF.

Just imagine the Seer of Truth appearing and then max Z rank emote falling on the banned offender.

This just turned Dhuum, a bad guy, into a hero.

I don't bot and don't plan to but when so many people do bot in a "grind free game" you have to ask yourself why. If getting Drunkard legally was fun most people would get it legally. It's not fun, it's boring and tedious and that's why many people cheat for it.

Treat the cause of the illness and not just the symptom.

I doubt that they went back 4+ years to look at the play history of every player.... or if they would even be able to do that...

afaik they never deleted old logs

The little town of guildwarsington used to be a calm and orderly. But one day a criminal mastermind came to town known as Gangsta Willy Carmine Anderson. The 3 fruity police officers were overwhelmed and almost completely stopped arresting criminals for many months. They nabbed a few now and then, but only the ones that were brought to their doorstep with blatant evidence and testimony of watchful citizens. They let murderers, thieves and criminals run rampant.

Good citizens of many years turned to a life of cheating and crime to stay affluent, competitive in sport or just make life easier. Many of their acquaintances were already involved in illicit activity and benefiting greatly from it. Some criminals hired many goons to do their dirty work for them (with a strange side effect of the government receiving lots of new money). The land became lawless.

The city officials finally after almost a year, realized they needed to do something. They hired new numbers and planned the greatest mass arrest operation in all of internetopia's history. The Law, strengthened by new numbers and a really big scythe, was able to arrest all of the criminals at once. For better or for worse, those that were caught shoplifting were given the same sentence as those who murdered 1000s of people - life.

The civilians who had the strength to resist as well as those that didn't do the dirty work themselves (but just used their goons, smart buggers), rejoiced as their town became safe again. But they glanced around and realized many of their neighbors, coworkers, even bosses were forever gone. The town used to be alive and prosperous. Now it was desolate and quiet.

Some of the jailed are planning their escape and will be successful. Many criminals will return, using either outdated or more sophisticated and undetectable methods. And the law enforcement in time will run dry as they move to a new town.

The townies rejoice now, but the crime will inevitably be back, and worse. There may not be any one left to move to the new guildwarsington being built a few miles away.

R.I.P.

Burn in the everlasting hellfires of creation! Be utterly anihilated down to the last strand of D N A !!

What a waste of an already weak game. How can Anet ban players who had no other choice but to play the meta? Keep reading, dont start qqing already. Hear me out. Anet took MONTHS to fix a simple problem that other games fix upon release. A simple cheatshield or something would have stopped all .dll injections and stopped this huge incident. The funny part is the guy who created the bots claims he warned anet, he told them of how easy it was, he showed them examples and all he got was a "yah well take care of it thanks". Did they? No. So he decided i guess ill release it and see if Anet finally mans up to their short comings openly rather than avoiding all problems and admitting no fault. How is a player supposed to enjoy playing a game where bots run the economy and run the pvp? Are we supposed to just sit with our hands in our laps waiting for Anet to take action? They really think that banning these people for their short comings will solve anything? Havent we seen this before? *cough*mallyx glitch*cough*duping*cough*. They need to learn to control their servers and stop constantly creating glitches. The difference between then and now is that you could avoid and ignore those past events on the grounds of ohh its just the economy. But bots can farm nonstop for days. They can win Hall Of Heroes all night and all day without fear. They can perma rupt both monks in a gvg making it stupid easy to wipe any team. They LET bots overrun the game and they LOST most of their player base due to it. Blame the players and issue bans but they gotta know these people arent gonna be buying new account and for sure wont be buying guildwars2 accounts. They are just throwing away money now. Its a joke. ANet needs to fix this mistake before it costs them 75% of their prior player base.

Theres no mistake in banning botters, they abused the game and frustrated it for legitimate gamers.

I am definitely far more positive about buying Guild Wars 2 now.

All GW players HAVE the choice, and the majority DO NOT take the path you consider the only one possible. There IS a choice, and most take the correct one.
Only a few areas of the game are problematic at a time. GW usually eventually fixes them, and it's not like there isn't a lot of other stuff to do in between.

For the record: actions like these make me MORE confident in Anet regarding GW2. They are the acts of a game maker who cares about the same issues I do. I won't always agree with the choices Anet makes, but I do agree with about 90%.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather not have those cheaters around in GW2.

The game will be better without the instant gratification crowd about. EARN your rewards for a change!

Three points:

1. For anyone wanting a definitive 100% cast-iron certain answer about TexMod, KSMod, and so on, you already have one. The definitive answer is "don't". They can't be completely unambiguous and say that they will never ban people for using these, because they just don't know that. Is it likely that they will? Nope. Would I feel safe using them? Yep. Are they retaining the right to change their mind? Yes, yes, yes. If you try to make them come out with a definite yes or no to the question of whether we can use them, they could only really say no.

2. There are likely a tiny minority of innocent people who got caught in the ban, because no detection method is perfect. These innocent people are probably spending their time communicating with Anet support trying to get to the bottom of the problem rather than raging and screaming on Guru.

3. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHA!!!

Incorrect I believe,

My friend used a bot 3-4 years ago. with 55hp monk troll farm and those minotaurs in elona reach mission.

His account wasn't banned.

He gave me his account few months ago and still isn't banned ( he only has proph, so I just use his account to get 5year presents)

I believe they only ban recent botters. like 1-2years max.

It would be irrationally to punish someone for their acts committed 4 years ago in a game. (in this context, not a murder orsomething lol)

/fail.

Since when a horde of bots makes a place "alive"?

Also, I don't see the GW being more "desolate and quiet" than pre-ban, I logged in and saw the usual numbers of people around me, haven't seen banned guild mates or alliance mates.

You say they lost future customers for GW2.
Which ones? The ones who cheat and bot? ANd how is this bad?

I can say for sure that I will preorder GW2 (I was not considering even buying it given the state they left GW1).

somehow i have the uncontrollable urge to /HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

So which bot did you use?

good work anet being soft again

some people who got perma'd are getting there accounts back when they have clearly botted/synced champs

Fixed that for you, now lets hope her awful majesty didn't notice, lest you be burned for your error.

I'm guessing all those players who didn't bot, and subsequently didn't face the wrath of the banscythe realized that there was indeed another choice. Kudos to them.

4000 people? No, no, no... almost 4000 accounts, probably far fewer people... one botter getting banned on eight accounts isn't 8 people. Out of how many currently active? No idea, you'd have to ask Anet... not that it matters, we're better off without the botters, population sized be damned.

Hmmmmz... maybe cause botting never was supposed to be the meta. Anet was just following through on its' promise, finally.

i only used the mqsc luxon bot, interrupt bot, jq bot, fa bot, ra monk bot, vanquish bot, boreal chestbot, raptor bot, enemy party window, prot bot, bsurge bot, speedbook bot, kilroy boxing bot, sunspear bot, lightbringer bot, gem farming bot, tombs bot, dcore bot, snowball bot, brauer bot, party pt tonic bot, follow bot, codex sync resign bot, CoF chest bot, anti-diversion/shame bot, anti-bullstrike bot, anti-rupt bot, feather-farm bot, iron-farm bot, dust-farm bot, bone-farm bot, a slew of UW bots: auto-rupt healing springs, auto-dodge skeletons spike, auto PI on judgment bot, UW rit chamber bot, vaettir a/me bot, jitte farm bot, zos shivros 55 bot, bergen 55 bot, lucky point sunquae vale bot, war supplies bot, courier falken bot, vanguard point farm bot, material buying bot, drunkard bot, infuse bot, title bot, polar bear quest bot, packetfakor, death leveling bot, against the charr bot, snowball AT bot, hero battle bot, backbreaker bot, minipartyview, coward bot, bullstrike bot, bsurge bot, AoE bot, autotarget more endangered party member bot, a slew of hotkey macros, fasttravel bot (move from any zone to any zone), commander bot, pickup loot bot,

and i only used them ~15 hours a day.

yet one account survived =]. shouldve IP banned me Anet. Cmon. I deserved it.

No matter if someone used bot once and by 1 minute or 5 he is still cheater and deserves ban , good work Anet.

Can't wait for GW 2 relase.

I think you may have found the use for the Medals of Honor!!!!!

They aren't exactly telling the truth ANet. Over the past 2 weeks ive been using texmod to get the cartography titles and ive been banned! Im sending a support ticket but if this is the case then im pretty sure their detection methods are whack.

Ive no idea whether ill get my account back now!

I think it was awesome that they banned you