Guild Wars 2

The game has been released 4 months ago. You have been urging players for quite a while to change their password, after you implemented that blacklist after people initially chose their passwords, attempting to minimize account thefts.

Can we please be left alone now? It has been weeks and weeks and weeks since you implemented that blacklist, and people probably have already been “hacked” (as they call it) if they used account information that was already compromised. Can you either just drop this, or maybe run a database check for accounts that show no sign of “repeated failed access attempts” or “password probing” or whatever, and stop bugging those accounts to change their perfectly safe password? Noone has “hacked” my Lineage2 account(s) in 8 years, and noone will hack my GW2 account(s), yet I have to see that message in red every single day

So instead of finally removing the annoying red banner for everyone who has not been “hacked” after so many months NOW you make it mandatory after all? You say “there is no advantage to wait until february 7th” to change it. Well, if you make it mandatory, then there also was no advantage for you to wait three months to do so.

Everyone still using the same password now after all those months without getting hacked most probably is NOT on those password/accountname lists that the hackers use, or he would have been hacked by now. I am really disappointed in having to choose a new password now, with my history of never having any account problems in any game in more than 12 years of playing online games.