Guild Wars 2

Let me be clear, I don’t want to hack or encourage hacking.

What I do want though is areas like WvW to be cleared up from hacking. With that in mind I guess I’m just concerned that going into detail about hacking and how to counter it may be interpreted the wrong way by ArenaNet.

Can I get some direction about how I would make a post like this?

You could recommend in suggestions?

I don’t see what harm there is as long as it is a well constructed and backed up with actualy evidence and facts to support your case.

I myself do not know the ins and outs of hacking anymore as it is past me (used to learn from my Dad. :P)

If you are very knowledgable in the field I do not understand why they won’t take some points into consideration.

The worst that can hapkitten the topic becomes locked or deleted but it probably will not happen if it includes the before mentioned. I am sure Anet is working on how to counter a lot of problems as they do have a lot of issues to sort out at the moment. The game is still in its infancy so is bound to be hit by lots of problems. Over time hopefully the more important issues will be sorted.

Hope you succeed in your endeavours,
Glitch

If you’re concerned about your post teaching people how to exploit something in the game, most companies have an email address that you can send the information to. That way they get the info without it spreading to the gaming community. I took a quick look for any sticky posts that might give such information, but I didn’t see anything, but the info may be here someplace.

Short answer, don’t make a post bout it.
There are a lot of rumors bout hacking both in PvP as in PvE. Accounthacking is not something that can be stopped by Arenanet but by the people themself. I have heard in my years of playing a lot of MMO’s a lot of people saying it wasn’t their fault and they all did what they had to do. But when it comes to the persons close to me (bout 5) who I knew personally and not from places like this I had long talks with them and always found the leak on their own computer (2 times a keylogger and 3 times a hacked fansite where they logged in with same emailadres, password and used their charactername as an accountname).
So to the people I would suggest to do four things.
1: use an unique password and emailadres specifick for GW2. do not use it for other games or for other websites. If for example someone hacks guildwars2guru.com, and your using the same emailadres and password there they know you play the game, they know your emailadres, and they know your password. Use the following trick so you don’t need 15 different emailaccounts: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players/Security-A-Unique-feature-to-get-more-security.

2: Keep your computer save and update your virusscanner and firewall frequently.

3: Do not store your account details in your mailbox, on a file on your harddrive. If you have trouble remembering it, write it down and leave it next to the computer. If your housemates can’t be trusted, store it in your wallet.

4: never use leveling services or gold selling services. if you want to spent real money to get better buy gems and trade them for gold or buy boosts from the gemstore.

The last thing you might mention is that like always there are people saying that the gameserver itself is hacked. Do not believe reports like that. It is simple not true and mostly a misunderstanding of what someone saw (and if not it is just telling lies on purpose). It has happened that big mmo-games have been hacked. All have been in the news and being brought out by the company’s themself, the biggest and most famous one is the sony playstation network. It is bad advertising for a company to admit to be hacked, but they do know it will come out anyway, and by admitting it happened they are preventing worse things to happen.

Last remark: Do not pay attention to hackers, report and ignore. Enjoy your game and let Anet deal with the baddy’s