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Guild Wars Players Banned

Thu, 13 July 2006
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Over 4,000 Guild Wars players have been banned for 'botting'

4,000 Players banned.

The Guild Wars website has announced that over 4,000 players have been banned from their servers for using bots to gather gold and loot. The free-to-play MMORPG, focused primarily on combat, has long been plagued by individuals 'farming' in-game loot and then selling it for real money on eBay - a problem for many popular MMORPGs:

In order to maintain a solid game economy, we constantly monitor the game for the use of cheats and exploits. Over the course of the last week, we banned more than 4,000 accounts of players using "bot" programs intended to mine the game for gold and items. The use of such programs is strictly against our User Agreement, and their use can have a negative effect on the game's economy and on all players who play the game legitimately. We will remain diligent on the matter of bot use, and will continue to take action against those accounts involved in such use.

- Guild Wars News

Many players believe that the game's policy of not charging monthly fees (unlike most MMORPGs) gives it greater freedom in cancelling accounts, since bannings incur no loss in revenue.

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