Guild Wars 2

I say remove the core game from the offer, cut the price in half and call it an “account upgrade” or an expansion pack as I initially expected it to be – as opposed to buying both the core game and the expansion for the full retail price I paid years ago. That would’ve been decent and fair.

I was looking forward to get back into the game after a hiatus with the upcoming expansion, but from how it seems as of now.. I think I’ll spend my money and time elsewhere unless some things change (or until it goes on %50-75 off sale after a year or two…)

A great deal for the new players indeed, but I personally don’t think the price is justified by the product the existing players are getting, although that is quite subjective, let’s just say I (and several friends of mine) personally don’t think it’s worth that much.

Just my opinion.

PS: This is coming from someone who bought Diablo 3 twice and got the RoS expansion right on release for the full price and never regretted it once. For the price of HoT, I’d want it to be similar to buying GW1 Nightfall or GW1 Factions (which pretty much felt like whole new games in regards to the amount of content we got unlike GW1 EotN – like Witte.3160 pointed out.)

Found this thread on google while looking for a solution. Sorry to bump a year old thread but it seemed like an unresolved issue. I had the same problem as I just formatted my PC and had to reinstall the game, maybe this will give some insight to those who are still having the issue:

I downloaded the client through the website (no discs), moved it into my “Games” folder, turned off Sharing Wizard from “folder options” (Tools, Folder Options, View Tab, at the bottom of the list) and ran the installer without any problems. I’ve also noticed that you won’t be able to use the installer if you rename it.

Hello Gaile, I understand you guys can’t prevent this from happening, but can you at least take extra measures against it? For example, I was sent this message yesterday and unfortunately I’ve sent them my serial and a name of my character when I was asked to as I believed it to be real until I saw the 404 page with chinese letters all around when I tried to log in, I contacted support immediately before any hacking attempt even took place and I’m still waiting for responses…

However when I opened a thread regarding this last night, it was deleted and the forum mod gave me an official warning and warned me that I could get banned for this sort of thing, for “sharing personal info” to be specific, which I haven’t done… Now that I don’t understand. Please tell me how are we supposed to know which is real and which isn’t when even the real mods treat us this way with almost no explanation..? I was simply asking for assistance or maybe some advice from both mods and players who’ve had this sort of thing… I’m the victim here, or soon to be victim.

sender: ArenaNet (noreply@guildwars2.com)

Greetings

We are sorry to inform you that your login account [EMAIL LINK] will be shut down or partially limited within 72 hours due to currency transactions or abnormal login. If you want to remove restrictions, please click the following link to validate:
[LINK]

We will investigate into this case through verifying the account’s ownership. If the verification goes through, we will cancel any restriction.

Please keep in mind that Guild Wars 2 is a global game with hundreds of thousands of players. This means that standards of behavior must be upheld. For your convenience, you can obtain more information about our rules at the address listed below.

[LINK]

GM Cuache
Guild Wars 2 Support Team

Edit: I’ve got a reply from support and looks like they’ll change my email address with my confirmation, would that be enough really? Can’t the hacker simply send you a ticket and report the account stolen and then provide MY serial key and a name of my characters to get access to it?

I’d love to be able to do this as well, something like either editing your character’s appearance in the lobby just like in Aion anytime you like {correct me if I’m mistaken} or paying gems/gold for it, it’d be fine for me either way. It really does get old after so long.

I’m posting on a guildmate’s behalf, he’s unable to log into his account himself since it got hacked and stolen.
So here’s what he wanted me to post, please get back to him ASAP:

Ticket made sunday 9 sept 18.15 CET
Hacked Account [Incident:120909-005038]
Account Name: Oreilly.9473