Guild Wars 2

I’m not going to type in a 26 character, alphanumeric, randomly generated password. Broken copy and paste effectively means I can’t play using the Mac client. And it sure would nice to do so when I’m staying after work to kill time before going out.

does your pass program have an auto type function?

I agree that this is odd. I am able to copy-paste my password into GW 1 which I run on my Mac using Crossover, but can’t do the same with GW 2.

Fortunately, the GW 2 client has a feature to remember the password. Assuming that you use a login password on your Mac (if it’s a work machine, you likely are) then you have a basic level of security from co-workers playing on your account.

Arena Net’s primary concern with passwords is that some people use the same login and password on several websites. Thousands of GW 2 accounts have been plundered using passwords that were hacked from other websites.

DeadPhone.3084:

does your pass program have an auto type function?

I use 1Password. It is primarily designed to work with web browsers, so it doesn’t have a feature to fill input boxes in other types of programs.

Todd.8162:

I agree that this is odd. I am able to copy-paste my password into GW 1 which I run on my Mac using Crossover, but can’t do the same with GW 2.

Fortunately, the GW 2 client has a feature to remember the password. Assuming that you use a login password on your Mac (if it’s a work machine, you likely are) then you have a basic level of security from co-workers playing on your account.

Arena Net’s primary concern with passwords is that some people use the same login and password on several websites. Thousands of GW 2 accounts have been plundered using passwords that were hacked from other websites.

You’re right. I could type it out once and be done with it. But this sort of bug really shouldn’t be taking so long to fix.

Have you tried using Ctrl+V instead of Cmd+V? In the City of Heroes mac client this worked, as the client is essentially emulating a Windows environment.