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Posted by: Sabotage.7590

Sabotage.7590

My girlfriend and I, along with a group of friends, pre-ordered and played guild wars 2 at launch. We had to quit playing for a significant amount of time (i think over a year) due to school, work, moving and other real life issues.

Recently we have caught the bug and want to start playing again. I was able to log into my account just fine, but her password did not seem to work.

We put in a support ticket and found out the following information:

During our break, her account was hacked (mine had numerous login attempts from China but they were all denied, i have the emails from those attempts)
Apparently, the hacker used third party software which resulted in a ban of the account. The reply in the support ticket states that Arenanet is confident in its decision and will not view any appeals for this ban.

We have completely reinstalled windows and wiped her hard drive, there is no way, if a keylogger or malware was used, it will still be there on that computer.

We just want to be able to play again, I am already paying for half of the price of the game again to get another friend to play with us. I cannot afford to buy her another copy of the game.

Even if it is a complete account wipe with all characters deleted, she just wants to be able to access the game.

Can somebody please help with this matter?

Reference Ticket Incident Number: 130831-002144

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Posted by: SandraSolace.7682

SandraSolace.7682

Was she ably to provide proof the account is indeed hers?
Not trying to sound like I don’t believe you but that seems to me the only reason why it was denied.

Anyway, I’m sure Gaile will spot this post and if the ticket is older then 72 hours, also post the number in in the sticky for those.

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Posted by: Sabotage.7590

Sabotage.7590

We answered the verification questions to the best of our abilities. It has been quite some time since we stopped playing, so there were some gaps in our information. No worries devils advocate works for me. I want to be able to provide everything needed to get this resolved as easily as possible!

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Posted by: SandraSolace.7682

SandraSolace.7682

Then wait for Gaile, us players on the forum can“t actually do anything to resolve such an issue.

Urg, hackers suck

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Posted by: Sabotage.7590

Sabotage.7590

Urg indeed, hackers do suck! I know forum members cant do anything but its nice to get a response from anyone regardless

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Posted by: Gaile Gray

Gaile Gray

ArenaNet Communications Manager

We do have a follow-up thread for tickets, which is stickied above: Tickets for Review. Please post there.

As a general rule, we ask that people don’t post individual ticket review requests here, but instead use the official follow-up thread, as it’s much more efficient that way.

Gaile Gray
Communications Manager
Guild & Fansite Relations; In-Game Events
ArenaNet