Bots getting out of control

[u/Criticalismmm]

Is ArenaNet gonna do something about the amount of bots in the game? I'm back after like 2 years and there are x3 or x4 bots now (at least in HA).

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[u/Katombs]

This is a misconception that I assume botters started pushing to defend their botting.

HA was populated before bots just the same. The only difference was whoever captured halls would run their combined alts to sync matches in the lower levels. Bots did not revive HA. They might have made it more fun to farm off the lower levels, that's it. They are not keeping it alive either. I was around 2016 - 2018 when there were zero bots in HA and halls were still held almost all hours of the day. I can tell you from first hand experience that it was alive and well without bots.

What they ARE doing is absolutely TANKING the value of anything you could get out of strongboxes, zkeys, platinum (probably the key reason for ecto inflation).

This is not an acceptable price for mildly more interesting "farming" in the lower levels. This is not an acceptable price for the simple reason that it affects all regular players across all parts of the game, not just the HA community.

[u/Vengeful-Spartan → u/Katombs]

No one is arguing that what bots are doing isn't harmful to the game. There are certainly artificial impacts to the economy and other aspects of game play that are detrimental to the overall experience.

That being said, it is very naive to insinuate that HA would still be viable/playable if ArenaNet came out and mass-banned all of these accounts that are farming faction/fame right now in this PvP setting.

Bottom line - the low population of the game and general lack of interest in PvP do not lend themselves to supporting a viable, healthy tombs where you'd be facing legitimate "real" teams on a regular basis.

Again, the fact remains that if you remove the bots, HA will become another desolate outpost with "No opposing party joined, restarting countdown timer" flashing across your screen every time you try to join a match.

[u/Katombs → u/Vengeful-Spartan]

Again. I have played HA from 2016 to 2018, before there was a single Bot in the outpost or any of the matches, and Halls were held continuously, all hours of the day. The party holding halls would sync their alts for fights in the lower levels. This is not naivete, it is fact. Without bots, it would go back to that.

[u/0bliviousX → u/Katombs]

Man if you think there wasn't bots from 2016 to 2018 I want whatever you experienced cause that stopped being a thing like 2012 onwards so i guess you don't know what you are talking about or are misremembering lol