Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking of giving a copy of GW2 to someone who is fine with digital distribution, so I figured I’d take advantage of one of your sales. While it states “Give the Gift of Guild Wars 2” I couldn’t find any instructions on how to do this properly.

My plan was to have my credit card company issue a one-time-use number, so I’m not tying an account to a permanent one. Is that necessary? Does the e-mail information need to be my own or should I make it the recipient’s? Are there other fields I should fill differently than if it was my own copy?

Thank you in advance.

The best way to go about gifting GW2 is by buying the edition you want and then sending the serial you get via email to the receiver.

The receiver will need to create an account with the serial and as soon as that has been done, that person owns the copy.

So you don’t do anything with the serial except send it to the reciever, don’t make an account for them, they need to do that part themselfs.

I was just wondering the same thing, Drako, as I want to gift the game to my stepdaughter for Christmas/Wintersday.

Thanks for posting the tip, Sandra – that helps.

guys aparently buying it now means you have to w8 a lot, i did the same 4 dyas ago and still didn’t receive the code

I did this on the 19th.. and still haven’t received my code. Probably just going to call the bank on Monday and issue a chargeback. I paid for something that I didn’t receive. Thanks, Anet.

HykCraft.4610:

I did this on the 19th.. and still haven’t received my code. Probably just going to call the bank on Monday and issue a chargeback. I paid for something that I didn’t receive. Thanks, Anet.

There have been issues with some email providers blocking email from anet.
You should also be aware that if you do a charge back, the card used can never be used for any purchase from anet again and if it was used to purchase any other accounts you may lose them as well.

this sucks anyway, i’m still w8iting for my serial too the problem is that i payed through paypal. an i used that account to buy my copy and my gf one. also probably 3-400$ of gems in more tan a year of game.
this is really unprofessional.

It’s not Anet’s fault if your email is blocking them.

If you have not already done so, contact support (top of every forum page). It should not take more than a few hours to 24 hours to get your code – there is something definitely wrong going on.

Check your spam folders, and if nothing is there, and your support request doesn’t send you an auto-response within an hour or two, read up on the email issue that has been facing anet (if I can find it, I’ll link it)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Not-Getting-Our-Mails-Yahoo-Gmail-Hotmail-and-more/first#post2924424

EDIT : And unless/until you’ve tried to contact the vendor to make it right, you shouldn’t do chargebacks. I think the CC will even ask about that.