Guild Wars 2

but, you ask, how does anet know the account’s hacked?? well, first of all, the account’s probably reported as soon as it spams its ad … but that’s after one key item has occurred.

if i’m not mistaken, anet has now put in place a check that ensures the isp you’re logging in on is “near” the one you last logged in on. this means that if you log in in texas, then you take a trip to new york and log in, supposedly you get a notification that your account’s logged in from somewhere else, can you please confirm this in your email?

anet, while you’re waiting for this confirmation, if you disable chat/mail/tp, i bet you’ll do a LOT do deter hackers. if they can’t advertise, what’s the use of continuing the hack?

rift utilized this, it was their coin-lock feature. i loved it, personally. it was a very rare thing, in rift, to see gold spam and when you did, you were pretty certain that the spammer actually paid for that account. ok, so we make the farmers shell out some money to continue supporting the game. i don’t see the problem with this!

good idea!

support!

the original owner could always prove account ownership with receipts etc for the chat / mail / tp etc ban to be lifted.

errr what about ban on vendor-ing the items also?

hacker could be mad and just vendor off everything.

dang it, knew i forgot something! yeah, rift did that too. pretty much, until we entered a random code generated and emailed to us when we logged in, we could do nothing but sit.