Guild Wars 2

I don’t really see in what context your message could be taken as a joke. To 99% of the people it looked like all of the other gold farm/spammers, and if enough of them reported you (very likely) you got the ban.

Moral to the story: Don’t act like a nail around people with hammers.

Heh, just realized that sounded like one of Niven’s laws.

Hmm, now I am wondering. I logged in for the first time in over a week and I got a “Your account may have been accessed by an unauthorized individual” and so the account has been suspended until I contact support.

I was like “MAY?” So why am I unable to play if you don’t have specific information?

While it is a different reason given, I wonder if they have a security breech or a flaw in their security detection software somewhere.

I was quite surprised because I use unique passwords for everything and won’t give them to anyone, including my wife

At any rate, here’s hoping we all can get back to playing again soon.

Just to answer your question:

> Can that even be done on a MAC?
Yes, any program that can be modified on one computer system can be modified on another. There is no secret sauce on the Macintosh that make’s it impervious to hacking.

I logged in for the first time today in over a week and got a message that the account “may have been accessed by a non-authorized individual.” So I posted a ticket.

I used the “Recover Account” feature on your website and was allowed to reset my password, but still cannot log in to GW2.

My password is completely unique to this game and I have never given it to anyone, not even my wife

I know you guys reported attempts to hack many passwords a month or so ago, but I assumed you had resolved that issue back then.

Appreciate if someone could reset the account and let me know when I can get back in. Friends are awaiting.

No, it wouldn’t make sense to announce or release anything this week. Blizzard will control the Gaming media for the next couple of weeks, simply because they are the current 800 pound gorilla in the room.

I have to say the argument that this is not a proper sequel to GW1 is fairly curious.

Compare FF7 to FFX. The systems are almost completely different, and of course with all Final Fantasy titles the characters and worlds tend to be unrelated.

Diablo III in many ways is a direct clone of Diablo I. And for all the things that made the first Diablo title exceptional, it is now a boring experience because of all of the games that have come since then.

There is no hard fast rule that says a game must use the same mechanics to be considered a sequel. In fact when game companies make the games too much alike they frequently get complaints because they didn’t introduce anything new with the sequel. Leave it the same, and you are in danger of only getting back the hard core fans of the original game who do not want to learn a different system. Make it too different, and you risk alienating those same people.

ArenaNet obviously chose the latter route. Knowing they would lose some of their biggest fans, they took the risk that they would gain a bigger following and make up the losses. It’s hard to be sure this early, but inital reaction from the reviewers and the number of sold games seems to say they have succeeded.

But what makes the OP’s complaints even harder to grasp is that devs were very clear in stating that GW2 was going to be a different experience. They were “changing things up” in an effort to entice people who didn’t care for the traditional MMO grinds. Not that they don’t have grinds, but they are different from what WoW, LoTRO and so many of the other WoW clones offer. They even wanted to break the GW1 mold to create something truly different.

To the extent that they succeeded, they did a very good job. However, GW2 is not immersive. I don’t think many MMO’s can be truly immersive by their nature. They have to do too much trying to be all things to all people. When I think about games that really stand out in this regard, it turns out they are all Single Player RPGs: Skyrim, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Fallout. For people looking for excellent and immersive story line, I highly recommend those games.

To the OP I can only offer that GW2 is not GW1, it couldn’t be. That’s why it is called Guild Wars 2, and not just another expansion pack.