Guild Wars 2

I’ve been sending money to my friend since we started playing when the game launched. I don’t care about cosmetic stuff as much as she does, and she is doing crafting, so I’m trying to help out.

The last few days I made a few gold on the Trading Post, and tried to send some to my friend since she was stuck (wasn’t able to buy the level 40 trait book). I was “greeted” with this message:

“This transfer would exceed the total value of transfers allowed for new accounts. As you continue to play , your account will be allowed to transfer higher values. New account limits are necessary to protect your online experience from fraud and illegal trading. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience”

I haven’t sent more than 2 or 3 gold total, and now I am completely locked out of sending even a few silver.

At level 38, with more hours played than I want to admit, I’m not really a “new account” am I? What do I have to do to prove that I am not a gold farmer or account thief?

They are having issues with gold farmers right now, sorry for the inconvenience.

Have her list 1 of some crafting mat she’s not using for 1 gold. You go buy it. Mail it back to her when you’re done.

Problem solved.

I’m not a gold farmer, this isn’t 100s of gold I’m trying to send, it’s 2 or 3.
That solution isn’t terrible, but it would cost us 15%. It shouldn’t. That means we lose around 40 silver.

The problem is, the system can’t really tell you aren’t a gold farmer. A lot of regular player accounts have been hacked by gold farmers. It would be nice if they could implement some sort of captcha thing into our email system to verify that there is indeed a human behind the computer. But I don’t even know if that could stop gold farmers.

“…total value of transfers allowed for new accounts…”
This means that this limit will not be there eventually. Eventually as in weeks or months , not as in character levels.

Just wait.

A player not being able to transfer gold for some time is preferable to a gold seller being able to do so for that time.

You’re suggesting I wait for weeks or months before we can play again? I know why you are saying what you’re saying, but try to see it from my perspective.

The transfer limit is absurdly low right now. Every account is a new account by these standards. Thousands of people must be experiencing this issue and not bothering to post about it.

Thanks for the replies, but I don’t think you’re seeing how excessive this is.

Right now gold sell’s are around 10 gold. for a long time they were 5. They set the limit so low for this reason to try to stop the gold sellers.

Gulliger.8963:

You’re suggesting I wait for weeks or months before we can play again? I know why you are saying what you’re saying, but try to see it from my perspective.

The transfer limit is absurdly low right now. Every account is a new account by these standards. Thousands of people must be experiencing this issue and not bothering to post about it.

Thanks for the replies, but I don’t think you’re seeing how excessive this is.

Nope, you can play the game now, but our friend will have to just go out and earn her gold like the rest of us. Life’s hard hey.

EyeSeeSound.1348:

Nope, you can play the game now, but our friend will have to just go out and earn her gold like the rest of us. Life’s hard hey.

This.

This urgency you show doesn’t seem reasonable to me. All players can well, play,and get their own gold, at their own pace.
If you want to rush things, it’s normal that you’ll hit walls.

We both paid for the game. It’s not up to you to decide of it’s reasonable or not. It’s a game, and it cost money so we’ll play it how we want. We aren’t exploiting or doing anything wrong. “Life’s hard hey” is irrelevant because this is not life, this is a game. It’s a product that I bought and I should be able to use it. Is that difficult to understand?

This gold farmer limit shouldn’t be so easy to hit by a normal player.

That, right there, is the crux of what I’m saying. I’m being accused of being a gold farmer because someone at ArenaNet was overzealous with the transfer limit.

If it’s a bad idea to remove it entirely, you should at least agree that it ought to be increased if players are running into it so soon.