Recent Account Bans

what part of "we're banning botters" is hard to understand?

There are third party programs that we tolerate, but we don't provide any support for them whatsoever. We have not taken action on some of those third party programs because we don't feel that they provide an unfair advantage. But I have to stress: this applies to some of those programs in their original form. Players use third party programs with Guild Wars at their own risk. If those programs are modified (and maybe you won't even know about it), we make no guarantees as to whether this could incur account termination. As James said in his post, if you're in doubt, just don't use it.

For the last 45 minutes my stomach has been upside down, I've been sweating and my heart beats like crazy...I hope there's some way to prove A-net I've never ever ever ever ever ever even had a bot on my PC . :\

Well, I saw people /cheer every time I saw one of those, XD.

I wish they were the 6 gods:
- You scam, give links or spam with promises of working cheats or hacks? Grenth hates liars. You get draw to the underworld by his cold hand.
- You manipulate matches or any other kind of cheat or hack in PvP? Balthazar burns you.
- You use bots in PvE or abuse bugs and exploits? That's an abomination. Melandru turns you into a twig. An ugly one.
- You violate the inappropriate behavior, chat impoliteness or character names? That's not nice. Four arms come from a crack in space, and grab the character. Once the character disappears, Lyssa appears through the crack and ascends.
- You make any kind or real money trading? O-ho-ho... that's wicked. Dwayna takes care of you with a pillar of light.
- Account stealing or using another one's account? Ah... other people's passwords should not be a knowledge you have... Kormir.
And for the rest of breaches... Dhuum slipts from its prison once in a while to take care of that.


Ah... a man can only dream...

Nothing of value was lost

So basically if you're going to use GWML or TexMod, be sure and download them from the original source; i.e. the official wiki for texmod and imkey's thread here on guru for GWML. Is that what she is saying? (I know imkey has had several release of GWML)

i've never used gwx2 or multilaunch personally, but the oldschool (aka manual) method involved a simple hexedit of the gw.exe file.

But, Regina , there are thousands of articles and videos and guides with people saying TexMod is TOTALLY safe to use, and they're all giving links to the wiki download page . So if that's all I did - downloading it from the wiki link , what did I do so it resulted in my account getting banned ?

So is multilaunch ok? I just started using it and sure as hell don't want to lose TWO accounts! :/

My inkling is they are using IP address as a tool to identify botters with multiple accounts and get all of them. This can lead to all sorts of false positives though depending on how that was included in the analysis.

Just match the md5's from the original source to the one you downloaded just to be sure it's safe. If the author has not posted one, ask for one. Given the current situation I'm sure they would be happy to provide you with a simple md5

Explain to me how a bot that simply money sinks and does nothing else provides an advantage or his harmful to other players.

Starcraft has much fewer players than when it came out as well, I've never heard it called "dead". There's fewer than 30,000 people playing it on battle.net generally.

Even if 10% of the playerbase was banned (I'm sure it's less than 1%, the majority of players aren't even interested in using wiki or forums, much less botting), there's still 33,300 people playing.

That would be SO AWESOME.

Please note that Emily said TextMod while it's called TexMod
But OK, more seriously - If it was and will be aimed for real cheaters and will be done with extreme precaution, then good job.
I mean if ANet can really really REALLY distinguish bots from 'normal' hardcore farmers, then it's fine
Anyway props for Dhuum appearing and swinging his scythe of death, it's just awesome

Re-read:
Seriously, bro... if you use anything 3rd party to let the game work for you instead of work for things in the game while you play, you deserve to be banned, sorry.

End of story.

I can't comment on your case, as I am not customer support. All I can say is that support investigates each account thoroughly. Please take it up with them.

ok, advantage:

user a: *clicks on drunk item and waits a while*
user a: *Clicks on drunk item again once the first item has died down*

user b: *uses bot to automate clicks of the item every minute or two*
user b: *goes off to do something else while bot does work for him*

This is great news.

If you refuse to apply common sense and just want to argue with people who have given you simple answers to your question, then by all means continue using your bot and see how it works out for you.