148431-it-becomes-worse-and-worse

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The bot problem is worse than ever, and you do nothing against it. Goldseller bots are everywhere, posting their goldseller sites and we're inundated with stupid mails. You're killing their fun in WS cause they're many players who don't like raiding, doing dungeons and the whole pve stuff. I know many players who've left WS already cause pvp doesn't make fun anymore. And many of them were players since beta. Carbine, you lose many loyal customers day by day. Why you don't care?
 
 
Settlers rest in the Nordern Wilds got besieged by bots:
 
 
 
 
Every single player in our enemy team there is bot:
 
 
 
 
But at least i've got 3 (!) real players in my team, so our bg was over quickly.
 
 
 
 
Wow, Carbine, it's so much fun playing against bots. Please do something.
			
				
	Edited December 23, 2015 by SickToubib
	
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			Ive seen those first 2 images before. One was like 2 weeks ago and the second was earlier today posted by someone else. So good job on the troll post.	
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Ive seen those first 2 images before. One was like 2 weeks ago and the second was earlier today posted by someone else. So good job on the troll post.
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			They seem to be doing a good job on the NA servers, I've seen one gold seller in about a month.	
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So what? The bot problem still exist. Dunno what your problem is.
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			they send people mail...my god its worse than I thought	
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one guy says WS is dead and noone plays it. next guy complains that there are too many gold-farming bots around.
so what is it?
because those bots only exist in games where there is demand for an ingame currency.
if noone needs gold the botters wont bother creating more and more of them and putting time into it.
 
the reason why you see so many bots in pvp is that its easy to program the bot for the pvp match and you always get rewards, so losing is ok.new players often dont level trough pvp and they might look into pvp but see alot of bots -> they wont go there a 2nd or 3rd time. so its very hard to form a pvp community if everything is infested by bots. there might be players who want to play BGs but its just not possible because the bots are always a big group of "active players".	
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Well ... here I am ... never thought to post in one of "these" threads. Also, never thought that I have to say the next sentence:
 
OP is right and not a Troll
 
I could not bother but ...  look:
 
 
 
Screenshot taken today: 8:23 AM ... Wasted a charplace for this.
 
Create a char yourself and look.
 
So, yeah THIS is a serious problem and STOP defending. This time there is need to complain even more, because if everyone in this thread is serious about the date of the pics from OP, carbine needs to wake up! This is not a Troll post, it's crying for help.
 
I'm also annoyed from all these people posting negative stuff abpout nonsense, but this time it is a reason i would instant quit the game like i had done with others MMOs before if i get with a fresh char to this point.
 
Instead of crying, see the long term problems resulting from a bot invasion.
 
So please be realistic and stop grounding threads into the dust because you never test if it's true what OP is calling or if you don't feel comfortable with the thread existense, being afraid new players could be not trying out the game because of this thread.
 
Now there are holidays and all you can do is WAIT. Wait and post? Or wait and not post? Thats the question here.
 
While thinking about it for months, i lost my friends, quitting the game.
 
Problem exists since F2P launch and this has been getting a problem more and more and gets ignored. So you wait months to fix this? I'm also angry because i'm currently signature and really loose my fun ingame right now because of a list of problems which never ends.
 
So Bots are there and its getting worser, so there is need to talk about it and get attention instead of putting your eyes into clouds and wait for the slowest patch politic i have seen for a while to happen.
			
				
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Its true, it's a reason I'm not playing :)
 
Bgs should NOT be infested at MAX LEVEL with bots. I can understand low level. BUT LETTING THEM GET TO MAX LEVEL?
 
Just completely and utterly wrong.
 
Carbine. Fix it.	
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Dominion are getting the same, on Jabbit at least.  This group is sat outside our contracts board in Illium as I type.
 
 
I particularly like the inconspicuous names they have chosen to disguise the fact they are gold-sellers...	
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Jabbit Dominion side, in the first zone (if you pick veteran gameplay): 
Those ones sell gold: 
And those things make the gold in BG: 
			
				
	Edited December 23, 2015 by Seffron	
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Disgusting. I spent half my time reporting bots last time I logged on.
 
Do carbine actually not care enough to ban them at low level? :/	
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Disgusting. I spent half my time reporting bots last time I logged on.
 
Do carbine actually not care enough to ban them at low level? :/
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I'm not playing bgs because of this issue either.
It was somewhat ok at lowlvl because you knew at lvl50 they were not in bgs anymore.
However this is no longer the case, and I don't want to play PvBot. 
Going on holidays today, so will check out bgs again sometime after new year, and I really hope the problem is solved by then... otherwise no more pvp. 	
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Goldseller bots are everywhere, posting their shitty goldseller sites and we're inundated with stupid mails.
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I don't PVP, so I won't comment on that aspect of your post, but I have seen one single gold seller bot in Thayd over the last month, I've gotten one mail, and I've gotten one whisper.  That's three instances in a month of playing 5-10 hours a day, every day.
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 However they are dominating bgs atm... so I see them there :(
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Hey look the bright side , at least queue times are like 2-3min right now. And leveling via pvp is possible. Queue times would be almost impossible in low levels or close to 40min if there would not be any bots imho.
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Queue times would be almost impossible in low levels or close to 40min if there would not be any bots imho.
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Well, I don't know if it's meant ironically but I sometimes really like the never ending optimism in the Wildstar community ^^
 
It's like an giant explosion blasted all life away and we all keep saying: "At least there will be enought space to build up everything again and i don't have to wait waiting lines anymore!" :D
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People like to think the bots were taken care of way back then. Wrong.
 
It never was. It was just dumb for the farmers to keep buying $60 copies of the game to farm low demand platinum. They just left because it wasn't worth the investment to continue buying accounts.
 
Now? Accounts are free. Game is stupid easy to bot. Who cares if the demand for plat is low? You invest almost nothing for easy returns.	
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What is interesting to see in my recent sessions are peoples accounts getting obviously taken over. You usually see them in Thayd/Illium and the character is clearly someone who at one point was not a gold seller, but they'll spam ads for sites and such in zone/trade/whatever.
 
Regardless though I can say I've seen some clear signs as well of bots showing up in the lower zones like the screenshots taken. On the bright side I don't see them warping all over the place like they used to(sadly as i recall that also took away some client side stuff from us too that adds to things like impale being harder to land)	
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			Hey Everyone - I just sent this up the chain. We recently did a mass bot ban last week, and we are actively working towards a more permanent solution. We appreciate the report here, and we could use your help in-game as well. One of the best ways to help is to use the right-click report feature. Since many of these bots usually come from the same IP, getting those reports helps us to get the issue under control as quickly as possible.	
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			Well if i wasn't 100 % sure that u guys had totally giving up on "your" game, i surely is now..
			
				
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Its true, it's a reason I'm not playing :)
 
Bgs should NOT be infested at MAX LEVEL with bots. I can understand low level. BUT LETTING THEM GET TO MAX LEVEL?
 
Just completely and utterly wrong.
 
Carbine. Fix it.
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Disgusting. I spent half my time reporting bots last time I logged on.
 
Do carbine actually not care enough to ban them at low level? :/
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Who-a, who-a, who-a! Wait a minute, why low level BGs are ok with bots? I loved lowbie BGs before bot infestation.
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It was just dumb for the farmers to keep buying $60 copies of the game to farm low demand platinum. They just left because it wasn't worth the investment to continue buying accounts.
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Well handled Carbine, players are now forming premades with the only purpouse of farming bots in the lv50 bracket.
I joined one myself yesterday evening, it was so boring that after few matches I started botting myself by putting a mug on my keyboard and spamming the autoattack at enemy's spawning area while my team cared of the rest.
 
It's fun because CREED costs around 30-35 plats on Luminai and I was thinking about buying a month with real cash to extend my signature and get some Cosmic Points. Though, thanks to bots I could farm enough plats on my badly geared warr on Jabbit and buy it for half the price of Luminai.
 
There's probably no come back for WS PvP at this point which is really sad since there were just as many players interested in PvP as in the pve aspect of the game.
You chose to neglect half of your player base at launch when you had to open like 3 or 4 pvp servers. Luminai had ques on relaunch, yet you waited so long for starting s2 (even came out bugged) that players were already bored of farming bgs day and night.
Drop 1 no pvp contents, remember? 
Sabotage? Daggerstone UI is still bugged as hell.
PvE items in pvp? Tiki mask bug?
Warplots? What a joke, remove them already.
Balance at the moment isn't even much of an issue, except healing classes.
 
We wouldn't call this game "dead" or ask for numbers if pvp players were still here. 
Ppl argue that raids are too hard, dungeons too unforgiving, they suggest to add LFR for keeping players interested but honesly, all you needed was to dedicate more to pvp and we would all be happy. 	
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			did you all end up reporting the bots or just posting screen shots here?	
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Because at super low level it means it's a new bot. Honestly, seeing them whilst levelling up on any game is not rare.
 
The fact carbine are letting these bots GET to level 50 is the issue here. They get there by losing battlegrounds. It takes a ridiculously long amount of time to level up by losing. That shows how much carbine don't care.
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did you all end up reporting the bots or just posting screen shots here?
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			Leave the bots be, at least they get the queues to pop. There's no hope for the server population.	
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Wait, you actually think they went out and buy copies of the game? :lol: Their supply is from hacked accounts.
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lel.
 
You're naive if you think there's a large number of inactive Wildstar accounts waiting to be hacked.
 
Not many people played Wildstar to begin with.
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What is interesting to see in my recent sessions are peoples accounts getting obviously taken over.
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			Actually, there might very well be an important reason why Carbine ignores rampant battleground botting.  All those bots make the game look like it has more active players than it actually does. That way, the Carbine execs can go to NCSoft and say "Look, we've got lots of players! Please don't fire us!"	
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If I wanted to play a decent bot game I can log any MOBA. At least the bots there actually yknow... do stuff. 
This is like playing with passive bots on stupid mode.
 
And as for the people making groups to farm bots... it's pitiful. It has made me so sad.	
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Uh. I was here at launch, back when everyone who played had to buy a copy of the game. There were TONS of people. Queues in the 5+ hour range.
 
So yeah, there were plenty of inactive accounts waiting to be hacked.
 
Why do you Crabine instituted the Authenticator? It was because of the rampant hacking problem.
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They seem to be doing a good job on the NA servers, I've seen one gold seller in about a month.
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Actually, there might very well be an important reason why Carbine ignores rampant battleground botting.  All those bots make the game look like it has more active players than it actually does. That way, the Carbine execs can go to NCSoft and say "Look, we've got lots of players! Please don't fire us!"
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Actually, there might very well be an important reason why Carbine ignores rampant battleground botting. All those bots make the game look like it has more active players than it actually does. That way, the Carbine execs can go to NCSoft and say "Look, we've got lots of players! Please don't fire us!"
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