Guild Wars 2

I don’t have a phone and wouldn’t give my number to a gaming company anyways. Please include the option to stop this, its friggin annoying seeing this on log in. Many people log in multiple times a day, and its not fun seeing all the time.
Thank you.

you can use the desktop authenticator if you don’t have a phone.

Yes do stop with that or allow it to opt us out if we select and to not ask us again.

You can have it send you an email if you prefer that instead of a phone message. If you don’t want it on your regular email make one for that use only.

They’re not going to change it because the average user has an unsecure email and by not having a secured account, they’re a vulnerability that could potentially cost them money. For advanced users with properly secured emails however, email authentication is actually the most secure option. A simple offline authenticator is actually more secure, because it’s best to cut out the middleman, but it’s compromised because of support.

If you want to manually update the game with patches, you can try creating two shortcuts. Remembering your password may be a requirement.

To play the game: Gw2.exe -sharearchive -autologin
To update: Gw2.exe -image

That’s basically what I did (multiclient app), and I don’t see the message as long as I don’t run the game normally. Note that -sharearchive makes the game read-only, so you can’t change some settings.

Alternatively, you can skip the launcher entirely using the command:

Gw2.exe -email "x@y.com" -password "pass" -nopatchui

… but your password will be visible to anyone that looks.

Cool info Healix, ty all. I had forgotten about the desktop auth, as I thought it’d still ask (didn’t think it’d replace it, lol.)

Whats the -sharearchive switch do?

FloyydBergur.3795:

Whats the -sharearchive switch do?

Normally, GW2 has exclusive access to Gw2.dat, preventing it from being touched by anything else. Using that switch stops that, but at the cost of GW2 becoming read-only, preventing GW2 from patching and saving any changes to your local settings. Likewise, using -image to update prevents your local settings from changing, which I’m guessing is the reason I don’t see the SMS reminder until I run the game normally.

Ah, thanks Healix, nice to know.

I’ll have to check out the desktop auth I guess too.

This desktop auth is worse! Now I have to start it up, and pick GW2, type in the code and close it… every 5 starts so far. What a stupid system. How do I get rid of it?

You can remove it the same way you added it; under account management. The default is email authentication however and the alternative is SMS, both of which are going to take more effort to use. Use an authenticator that you can simply copy/paste from.

You’re only required to authenticate when your IP changes. If you’ve selected to remember them, it should eventually stop.