This really is War! & ArenaNet is Winning

ArenaNet talks about their success in the war against Bots.

Mike Lewis, Security Coordinator for Guild Wars 2, wrote a blog post revising players on the existing war against bots in the gw2 gold game. In the post Lewis goes a little into how ArenaNet is combating bots, although the most amazing info is the challenging stats.

In just the month of November ArenaNet terminated over 34,000 accounts for botting. That is a whole lot of dead bots, but is all of that making a difference in the war? I would say most certainly yes! The number of bots reported in October was over two,000 each hour. Today there's around 20 bots reported an hour. Down to 1% of what it was just two months ago!

Lewis stated this was attainable due to all the data that ArenaNet collects & analyzes. They check out the data for both normal players & automated bot players to speedily find and hunt down bots, a process that ArenaNet focused on making automated to expedite those dastardly bots' defeat.

The bot fighting process isn't 100% automated but. GMs still roam the world and are able to monitor & detect bots directly from within the game. ArenaNet also continues to use player bot reports as well, which with the GM tools & data analysis tools enable for a swift action when crucial. So while the war is going primarily well, players are nonetheless able to help keep the enemy at bay.