Mike Lewis on Botting

''We wanted to address some of the concerns around ‘botting’, and let everyone know what we’ve been doing about it, as well as our plans for continuing to tackle this issue.''


Mike Lewis, ArenaNet's security coordinator, has taken the time to update players on the current state of botting in the game on the official forums. So far they have permanently banned 1,600 accounts of botters in the past week on top of the accounts being used by online gold sellers to spam players with advertisements.

He also notes a new team of data specialists who've been hired specifically to create brand new tools to assist support while they issue the necessary botting account terminations. As time goes on, they plan to continue gathering information on which bots have been popular, and in turn accelerate the rate in which they can remove them. Players are also encouraged to report suspected botters by right-clicking their name in-game.