“A lot of people will probably feel uncomfortable knowing that a game they play accesses all the programs running on their system and reads a lot of files that it has no business reading in addition of potentially sending some of that information back via the internet to their servers,” he said in an email to Kotaku.
Subsequent research by him and another Redditor suggest it was only retrieving info on matches for the blacklisted programs. Wosar initially feared ArenaNet was indiscriminately monitoring all programs running on user’s computers and having that data sent back to its own servers. In their April 14 post, they said, “We targeted programs that allow players to cheat and gain unfair gameplay advantages, even if those programs have other, more benign uses.” ArenaNet did not respond to a request by Kotaku for further comment. The post listed the cheat programs it recently checked for.ĪrenaNet hasn’t been clear about what they’re checking hacking programs for and whether they’re ensuring that they are being used on Guild Wars 2. On April 14, an ArenaNet rep posted a message on the game’s forums saying that “1516 accounts were suspended because we detected that the accounts were running Guild Wars 2 at the same time as one or more of the following programs over a significant number of hours during a multi-week period earlier this year”. Instead, he believes his account was flagged simply for having the other programs installed on his computer and potentially running in the background. While Wosar admitted to using bots to farm in other games such as FF14 and Path of Exile, he said he’s never used them for Guild of Wars 2 because it isn’t as grindy. Want access Share your GW2 cheats, guides, bots, and more. According to Wosar, this version of the game client, which was live until March 27, allowed ArenaNet to periodically check whether other processes running on players’ computers simultaneously matched a list of cheat programs. Guild Wars 2 Premium Hacks such as speed hacks, teleport hacks, etc. In a lengthy Reddit post on April 13, he said he had reverse-engineered a 32-bit version of the game’s client released on March 6. Fabian Wosar, a player based in Germany who also claims to be a security researcher, was one of the players suspended and used it as an opportunity to investigate how and why he was targeted.
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