Guild Wars 2

In Australia most ISP’s issue dynamic IP addresses. This new email authentication is enough to turn me away from your great game. I have to check my email every single time I play. I have to check email every time I log into the gw2 web site and if I try to reply to a forum thread I have to do it again even though my address hasn’t changed since I first logged into the web site.

Every now and then I receive this error when the forum asks me to authenticate email again;

“Login Error: Portal returned error: 42: {”error":42,module,line,“text”:"ErrTimeout"} — /var/www/forum/gw2/en/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/oauth2-0.8.0/lib/oauth2/client.rb:108:in `request’ — login_controller.rb 94 (fangamer:-1)."

This is crazy over the top security. If it looked at the geo location city and allowed anything from that city or even if it allowed anything from the network (as it says it does) rather than just the host address it would be better.

Allowing dynamic IP address users to “remember network” is BAD from a security perspective because you are remembering an IP address that will be someone elses in a few hours and the chances of getting the same IP again are almost none so it’s a waste of time and resources at your end. It’s great for all you Americans with static IP addresses but there are lands beyond the USA!