Guild Wars 2

Is it possible to give away your account? I don’t mean sell, just give away? I really dislike GW2 and the Arenanet team has said they can’t rewind my gw1 account after it was hacked and had all its characters deleted….. It has 50/50 HoM but I can’t see the point in redoing all the titles/campaigns etc to be able to take part in the end game from gw1.

OR swap with someone else who has a gw1 account? I can’t figure out how to change the email for my account.

Those actions would be against the ToS, and the account would be terminated. If you no longer want to play Guild Wars 2, just uninstall.

Good luck.

Even to give it away?

You can not give away your account. You can read the EULA/ToS below via the ‘Legal’ link.

Interesting how its a legal issue when my account was hacked…. Should this not also be a legal issue?

cam.6850:

Interesting how its a legal issue when my account was hacked…. Should this not also be a legal issue?

Being hacked online isn’t really a legal issue. If you were hacked then presumably it was by your own negligence (I don’t mean that as an insult, it happens.) either because your email account was compromised, your password was easily guessed, you gave out your information somewhere, or your information was obtained through malicious means such as malware or trackers.

Arenanet makes giving away or selling accounts against the ToS because it is incredibly difficult for them to police. What are they supposed to do if the original owner of the account decides to go back on the sale and starts complaining that the person they gave or sold their account to hacked them? Arenanet can’t play police in those kinds of situations and so its far easier of them to make it clear that if you are the owner of an account then you will always be the owner of that account.

You’ve clearly played GW1 a lot since you got 50/50. If you’re not going to be playing anymore then just leave the account sitting there. If someone else wants to play GW1 then they can buy their own account and support GW1’s continued running.

i want to play GW1 but to restart from scratch……..

cam.6850:

i want to play GW1 but to restart from scratch……..

So buy a new account? If support has said they can’t roll back or reset your account then there’s not much you can do?

However, you’ve already said that your characters have been deleted, so why not just play from scratch on your existing account? As long as you’ve changed the password on both it and your email you should be fine. Yes the HoM progression will still be there, but I assume that’s not too big a deal? It doesn’t stop you from doing the HoM stuff with new characters.