Guild Wars 2

Hi I would like to suggest a method to possibly improve account safety.

It would be nice if we could block log-in attempts from certain regions or even countries of the world.
I do not want to sound prejudice but my friend had 48 attempted logins (over night) all from Chinese locations and myself I had 3 of them from China as well.
We changed our passwords already but this makes me think if say the regions of Asia, Africa, North and South America would block a login due to a regional block set in my account this would give us more security.

I understand there might be some issues with people moving etc. but it should be customizable for the account holder.

But isn’t that what the mail verification is for?

This is a really good idea. I don’t see myself trying to login from anywhere outside my region, so blocking attempts from those regions makes sense.

I have to say this is probably one of the best security suggestions I have ever seen being made, and it shouldn’t just be by country, but by STATE or PROVINCE.

Hell, it could even be by CITY.

For example, if I log in to the site right now, it tells me which city, province and country I’m currently logging in from. Why can’t I tell my account to refuse any log in attempts from another location?

In the event of emergencies, moves, trips, stuff like that, then either:

1. disable the extra security before you move,
2. send an email to support proving you are the account owner to have it disabled.

I do agree with this. While I haven’t been hacked, thankfully, I do believe that preemptively preventing hackers from trying to access your account with a region lock for your account would be best.

At the moment, there is only ONE city that I could log in from and that’s my home computer.

My biggest issue is that I go to college, and I take my computer home with me. I would therefore have to limit this to the United States rather than by state, if that was an option. I couldn’t even do region as I go from the Southwest to the East Coast. Otherwise, I would really like to have this implemented so that at the very least I can say nobody outside of the US can access my account.

There would have to be a way to change this, however. Life happens, people move out of the country…