A few days ago I had the unexpected “pleasure” of an instantaneous ban, right in the middle of a live play session. At first I couldn’t quite figure out what had happened until I tried to log-in again and read I had been banned for botting.
Now this has been remedied and that’s fine. But I must question the methods by which botters are detected.
For starters, I have two characters, a Thief and a Mesmer. None of the two are particularly good for botting to the point that it would barely make sense at all.
Then there’s the fact that I hadn’t participated in any notable PvE over the prior week. I might have followed a Champion train for 15 minutes at some point, or grinded some T6 mats, maybe done the odd temple event…but nothing that would ever lend itself to botting.
Hell, the day I was banned I had spent all my time either in sPvP and WvW, constantly killing people left and right. Don’t tell me bots have become so advanced.
My point being is that having a person simply look at my activity log for 10 seconds would have shown that I am not botting. It would have been immediately obvious, without a shadow of a doubt.
And I think if you’re going to be throwing out permanent account bans to individuals for no apparent reason you owe them as much as a quick look at their activity log. It would save you a hassle on both ends.
