Guild Wars 2

Players have a good security measure that requires authorization by email whenever there’s a login attempt from a new place.

There could be an extra layer added to this. From ‘My Account’, let players choose from a list of countries where they actually play from. Login attempts from countries excluded from that white list are automatically rejected, and players won’t get bothered by emails warning them of those attempts.

If I play from the US, I only get bothered by an authorization email if there’s a new login attempt from within the US. Everything else gets automatically blocked. If I’m a frequent traveler, then it’s better to assign those countries to the white list.

If a player travels to another country and plans to play GW2 from there, they would need to keep in mind to update the white list. Otherwise they would need to contact support if they’re already in a place excluded from the list.

I play from China and, birth pains aside, I’m very happy that they didn’t just block people playing from here, which would only end up hurting real customers.

The creation of a white list would minimize player concerns and give hackers some extra work (where is this stolen email/password combination from?!?) while preserving entry to legitimate players from anywhere.

I am for improved security features that make sense. I am disgusted to see how bad this has become.

Sounds good, I’m suprised I’ve never seen a company offer something like this before. The vast majority of their players will only be playing from home, which would be only one region, likely not even as large as a country.

A way to say "Hey, I’m only ever going to be playing from this region/state. Automatically block any login attempts from an ip address assigned to any region outside this area unless I say different while logged in from this area." Could do wonders for security.

I could see some issues from folks running behind a proxy, but in that case, they know how to set up a proxy connection, they probably know to whitelist their proxy’s region as well.

EDIT: My already bad spelling and grammar deteriorates even more every 10 minutes past midnight.

I think I’ve seen this suggested for other games. I always wonder why this feature is never added.