Guild Wars 2

Last night (night for me) there was rolling some facebook app that would give you 400 gems if you link your GW2 account and had many other rewards along it.

I just woke up and came back to see if everything was smoother now because it was overloaded and not loading pages correctly but I can’t find anything about it now. What’s going on ?

Link your GW2 account to what? Sounds a bit phishy. Maybe it was a scam.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Link your GW2 account to what? Sounds a bit phishy. Maybe it was a scam.

You just add your account name into your profile. Scamm or not me and many other people got the gems but now this just seems weird cause there’s nothing floating around the internet. Even the reddit post got deleted(?).

The app was legit, though it was through a 3rd party.

People could exploit it and print as many codes as they wanted. Since there was 5000 codes being given away, 1 person could have easily obtained hundreds of dollars worth of gems. I would expect ArenaNet to ban for this however, though they might not, since it’s 3rd party.

But it’s not like your account name is sensitive or anything. It is your forum name after all.

Healix.5819:

People could exploit it and print as many codes as they wanted. Since there was 5000 codes being given away, 1 person could have easily obtained hundreds of dollars worth of gems. I would expect ArenaNet to ban for this however, though they might not, since it’s 3rd party.

Where you got this information ?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1n532h/gem_give_away_is_legit/

I don’t see how Anet can ban people who received gems. What’s the rationale?

At worst, you got phished.

At best, you got free gems for subscribing to a social tracker

Thanks Healix for your asnwers. I had some trouble finding that thread on reddit today. Wound’t pop searching it and I didn’t save it it up last night.

Vol.5241:

I don’t see how Anet can ban people who received gems. What’s the rationale?

At worst, you got phished.

At best, you got free gems for subscribing to a social tracker

The point of my questions isn’t about getting banned or not. I’ts just about getting informed on what happend to the ‘service’ because only a minor playerbase knew about this.

the app is totally legal ( cant find the source now, but i will edit this soon).
The problem is that some ppl abused the system and claim a lot of gems linking fake accounts… Is this legal? If yes, the system should be up again and let the ppl use it, if not, the ppl that abused must be “penalized” ( not means ban ).

EDIT: SOURCE https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2/posts/10151751248729209?comment_id=28580046&reply_comment_id=28580295&total_comments=2

So what´s the name of the facebook app?

It worked. But it worked to well, so they removed it.

Thank you for contacting Guild Wars 2 Support Team.

We are very sorry to inform you that the website you provided to us it not legit, actually to provide you with a better response about it, I checked it myself and according to the information I got it is an unavailable page so we recommend you not to use it, the legit websites from Guild Wars 2 are the following:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page

There, you can look up game information, item description, forums and more. Please do not attempt to use other websites unless they are posted on our Forums, this will avoid you access scam pages that could retrieve your information.

Thank you for reporting,

Regards,

GuildWars2.com
www.guildwars2.com

Karizee.8076:

Thank you for contacting Guild Wars 2 Support Team.

We are very sorry to inform you that the website you provided to us it not legit, actually to provide you with a better response about it, I checked it myself and according to the information I got it is an unavailable page so we recommend you not to use it, the legit websites from Guild Wars 2 are the following:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page

There, you can look up game information, item description, forums and more. Please do not attempt to use other websites unless they are posted on our Forums, this will avoid you access scam pages that could retrieve your information.

Thank you for reporting,

Regards,

GuildWars2.com
www.guildwars2.com

see my post and you will see that Anet confirmed that is totally legitimate.

The problem is there was no limitation on facebook accounts getting codes, so people just made a whole mess of codes for themselves, so they took it down.