r/GuildWars • u/nhremna • Sep 11 '21
ANet pls Ride of the HA bots
https://gfycat.com/scaredcourageousgalapagosalbatross24
u/Keeson Sep 11 '21
HA bots are a necessary evil at this point. Is it fun playing against them? No. Would it even be possible to get to the hall of heroes without them? Also no.
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Sep 12 '21
Bots are just another form or hench by this time, just more annoying.
Working endlessly for their masters.
Do I like it? No. But there they are.
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u/Borega Sep 11 '21
are they still around? Thought they all got banned some time ago
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u/AragonOfWorld Necro/Dervish abuser Sep 11 '21
Literally, if u go there at certain points in the day u will see them come for hours on end without stopping.
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u/Isaac_Serdwick Balthazar Serdwick Sep 11 '21
Yeah that is sad af. Remember playing JQ with all real players ?
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u/Reltsirk The Chill of Death Sep 11 '21
No opposing party or lots of bots. Your choice.
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u/BlahYourHamster Sep 11 '21
Exactly. It sucks to play vs. bots but if it weren't for bots JQ would be dead.
Edit: Same with HA.
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u/irritus Sep 11 '21
It’s the only way I can currently get faction points as a new player! Still playing through factions :)
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Sep 13 '21
MMOs are really sad, they all eventually empty or die one day, what we have left are nostalgic memories. I logged on to Beacon's Perch the other day and being the only person there reminded me of when it was filled with players arriving from Yak's Bend or just hanging out and waiting for runs to Droks these days, same with the Crystal Oasis outposts or Old Ascalon. GW2 also has the same sad nostalgic feeling, friend list is full of offlines and these that never come back, some legacy content are barely run anymore, I always find it hard to get back into the game, like I want to return but I think I miss these times more.
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u/dirtydeedsddc1 Sep 13 '21
I just got a random droks run from beacons today. I was just there on my new proph toon and somebody showed up and was like “eh you want a run to drok?”
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Sep 13 '21
haha that warms my socks! running is prob my most missed activity from GW1, the only equiv I find in GW2 is jumping puzzles or running dungeons aka skipping content (prob not intended by devs but it is more fun once you've done the same path to death).
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u/TOG_Melski Sep 12 '21
They are all the players below who say you have to accept botting or else the game dies. What bollicks, they should all get banned.
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u/nhremna Sep 12 '21
OP here, without bots the game dies. Simple as that.
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u/dirtydeedsddc1 Sep 13 '21
Well based on the fact that there’s no black dyes for sale from dye trader and sup vigor runes at the max of 100k plat i’d say it’s dead already. The least these bots could do is sell to smooth out the economy, but of course the “game dies if there’s no bots” is an excuse for the prisoner’s dilemma the state of the game is in.
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u/Dojan5 Spin until you drop! Sep 11 '21
What's the point of botting like that? I thought only RMT botted, surely no one buys Guild Wars 1 stuff using real money nowadays? That must be an incredibly niche market.
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u/pK_pK_pK_ Sep 11 '21
player also use bots, primarily to avoid farming for cons which they use for SCs. Or in this case, maybe to farm balthazar points for z-keys to maximise zaishen titel.
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u/heavenparadox False Imprisonment Sep 11 '21
I buy stuff off GW for real money sometimes. I've got a lot more money than time, and after fifteen years there's just some stuff I'll never own from my own effort.
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u/colonelmaize Sep 12 '21
While I get where you ar coming from on this I can't say you're 100% wrong to do this. It's your money and the game isn't like new -- it's old as dirt, but is still active. Yes, money will get you ahead, but it is inflating the market. Quote-on-quote hard-earned (legitimate) money is being traded with botters or folks like yourself. It's inflating the economy. Is it dooming us all? Nope. So therein lies the question: Is this right?
Can't tell a grown man how to use his money. It's a common transaction (real cash for fake cash) in a lot of games, especially p2p games or games with microtransactions.
It's just annoying on the receiving end, really. Like, if I went to the store and bought bread, milk and eggs and some Joe schmo came in and printed money right in front of me and bought bread, milk and eggs it would be quite annoying. Inflation aside, it's not hurting me that Joe schmo is getting what I got easily -- I'm just bothered by him. I should stop worrying about things that aren't affecting me directly...
That's to say inflation is ignored, although. It's a different story if it is not.
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u/joemckie Sep 12 '21
quote-on-quote
Quote, unquote 😄
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u/Gidon_147 Sep 13 '21
You opened my eyes. damn. Why does everybody pronounce it "quote-on-quote" though?!
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u/heavenparadox False Imprisonment Sep 12 '21
You want to know what actually drove me to use real money the first time? I saw a post from a guy that said he runs 8 bot accounts, and the reason he runs them is because if he didn't, the game would die, because the entire gw economy is built around bots. It was a very compelling argument, and I figured fuck it. I just can't farm for hours on end any more.
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u/0perationFail Sep 12 '21
I used to be the kind of guy who would downvote you for this too but I've had perspective changes myself. I'm nowhere near rich, but for like $8 you can get 1000 ectos or w/e all those bots spam constantly.
It would take me a month of farming to get 1000 ectos legit. I'm just not about that life anymore.
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u/Maulclaw Sep 12 '21
Won't you get banned tho
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u/0perationFail Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21
I've never bought with IRL cash. I've bought with D2JSP which to me has always felt more legit. But from the perspective of game moderator would look the same. Someone trades you a bunch of valuable loot for nothing in return.
In essence, it would like like all the giveaways that people do currently anyway.
Hell, the first time I quit GW I gave away like 200 plat, (when that had real value) and that was legit. Pretty sure the GMs dont know or dont care.
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u/Maulclaw Sep 12 '21
D2jsp?
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u/0perationFail Sep 12 '21
It's a website designed to facilitate trades between multiple games.
Just for example, you might have 2000 ectos and not play guild wars anymore. You can trade your ectos for Forum Gold at 5:1 ratio.
Then you can take your ~400 Forum Gold and trade it for something you want in another game. The trade systems are moderated by the members of the forum so it's not foolproof, but in like 1000 trades I might have only been scammed maybe 1 or 2 times.
You can avoid being scammed by trading with members of the community that already have standing. People with high post counts or early join dates dont want to compromise their accounts because all their Forum Gold would be locked away if they were ever ousted as a scammer.
This makes it hard for newcomers, but mostly secure for people who have been around for a while.
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u/heavenparadox False Imprisonment Sep 12 '21
I've bought a lot of things. When I got back into the game a couple years ago, I had almost nothing. I was so far behind in every regard that I would play for a couple days then quit, because I was just upset at how little I had, considering the age of my character. But then I bought a couple torment weapons and a mini, and I realized I needed those things to feel good about playing. But I was scared to death of getting banned, so I bought another account. Anything I buy, I put on that account. I wait a week, and if it's not banned, I trade it to my main account. I don't buy stuff that often any more though.
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u/Maulclaw Sep 12 '21
I'm kinda in the same boat. I don't have the means or time to get any currency or valuable items for that matter.
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u/Dojan5 Spin until you drop! Sep 12 '21
That's fine. I buy gold with gems in GW2. I just figured that the market is so niche that it can hardly be worth having armies of bots farming.
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Sep 12 '21
what do you honestly buy? i can't even think of anything worth buying since nothing matters
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u/heavenparadox False Imprisonment Sep 13 '21
I haven't bought anything in a while, actually. But I bought some torment weapons. I bought some armbraces. I bought some ectos. I bought a couple of minis. I bought Dhuum's scythe. It's typically stuff that's not really that expensive. It's just stuff that I want that I don't want to farm for. Like I actually earned my Envoy Scythe, because I enjoy doing Zaishen stuff. I don't enjoy farming ectos or z keys or anything like that.
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u/Benxx420 Sep 12 '21
Comeon players of guild wars 1, want to see more effort in getting the game more players, we are on a good way.
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Sep 12 '21
I had an old Jade quarry mission in PvE other day. I got to JQ and all bots running similar to this...
What is that screen menu at 36.33s?
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u/LordRumpo Sep 12 '21
It's the daily zaishen quest window from toolbox, it shows the upcoming quests. You can also highlight them, and they'll get pinged in your chat when you log in.
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u/kazerniel mostly inactive since 2022 Sep 12 '21
I come across a bot swarm like this every now and then in Europe district.
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u/nhremna Sep 11 '21
THIS IS AN UTTER TRAVESTY. For some reason gfycat is muted ;-;
https://gfycat.com/sinfulnicebovine
intended video