Guild Wars 2

The other posts for this have died,
Curtis Johnson: All should be working again as of 5:45 pdt . Sorry again.

Cant even load the gem store to begin with, and if by some magical powers it does load and and get my credit card/paypal info in there i get errors.

{ “type”: “stepExternalIntro:error” } paying via paypal
{ “error”: “parse”, :type": order model:error" } paying via credit card

Been sitting here for 3 days waiting for a fix….
playing on Mac beta client aswell…

I too get the same issue – I haven’t found a solution for this either. Have you had any joy?

I can’t get this working in-game, but I found a workaround using an external browser (credit card purchase only) to at least purchase gems. From there, the store itself behaves just fine.

Background: The mac client uses Cedega, and runs IE5 as its browser. It looks like the gem store is written for newer browsers.

• Open the gemstore in game, this will make a connection to https://gemstore-live.ncplatform.net and store an authentication cookie in a temporary folder.
• Open the link above in a normal browser, like Chrome and you’ll see the gemstore, but with an “Authentication Error”.
• Tab out of the game, open up Terminal and enter all on one line:
  sqlite3 `find /private/var/folders -name Cookies 2>/dev/null` ‘select value from cookies where host_key=“gemstore-live.ncplatform.net”’

This will give you an authentication cookie string, a bit like this faked one:
C7FF0E1D-F9FF-4A15-8520-65EFFF5472EF

• Install a cookie editor extension for chrome, I used “edit-this-cookie”
• Browse to https://gemstore-live.ncplatform.net
• Add a cookie with name of “s” and a value of your output from above
• Refresh (the auth error goes away)
• Make your purchase using a credit card

Note – I couldn’t make this method work with Paypal, the popup to open the paypal window didn’t function.

I’m pretty annoyed I had to go to such lengths to buy some gems; but I guess the mac client is ‘beta’ – I bought a tonne so I don’t have to do this again any time soon.

Hopefully the purchase flow will be fixed to work with older browsers that Cedega uses; or they’ll get back the team that dealt with the Cedega wrapper to work on updating the internal browser. I live in hope.