I've been playing Guild Wars since 2005 and can tell you, there is nothing shady about the game or ArenaNet. And the idea that they are powerleveling characters and selling them to you is ridiculous. This is a competitive game. They care if you're cheating, they don't care what level your character is. Hell in the original GW you could make a character at the max level without that character hitting the story at all. In GW2 you can buy a max-level character right from the game.

What they care about is if you're cheating to get max-tier weapons/armor and if you're cheating in the PvP tournaments.

> So, the news about them using spyware to ban bots is kind of expected I guess? So people keep buying powerleveling.

In the in-game store they sell an instant max character boost that's 100% legal within the games terms. Why would they also be selling powerleveling or botting services?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Instant_Level_80...

> I noticed that when a couple of years ago I bought power leveling and got a maxed level character in less than 6 hours.

You can get a character to max level very quickly if you already have access to a few max level characters.

There's no reason to pay for a shady power leveling service either; you can buy a level 80 boost directly from ANet. Max level boosts are a pretty standard MMO thing these days.

Are you saying that because you cheated and didn't get caught the company running the game is shady? That seems backward.