Guild Wars 2

Way back I was invited to one of the closed beta events for GW2 and used an email address to make that account, lets refer to that address as ‘gmail’ -for example. It should also be noted that I had a preexisting GW1 account, and that was associated with a different address, lets call that one ‘edu.’

I did this with the understanding that I could link the accounts, and I no longer wanted my game account to be associated with the older address. As it happens I was able to link the accounts and now use ‘gmail’ to login to each game, GW1 and GW2.

The problem started when you first allowed us to change the account email address from the launcher when the game was released. The accounts were already linked, but at that point I was forced to use ‘edu’ to login to both games (as well as in beta before release, but after I had linked the account), but I needed ‘gmail’ to login and use the forums.

So when prompted by the launcher at release I tried to update my email address for my gameplay login to ‘gmail’ and immediately got the message that it was already in use. The accounts certainty were linked (I have the HoM stuff, etc), but I was forced to slightly alter my login email from the form ‘something.something@gmail.com’ to somethingsomething@gmail.com to be able to disassociate ‘edu’ from my account. This is because your system doesn’t recognize that omitting certain punctuation from my ‘gmail’ address doesn’t actually differentiate it; I still receive mail from either variation at the same address.

So at this point (at launch) I was able to partially resolve my account email issue by dropping ‘edu’, but still to this day I have to login to the forums using something.something@gmail.com and the game using somethingsomething@gmail.com, which is a minor annoyance.

The bigger problem is that last month I updated my password, as requested. Now it appears that the password change is only linked to the side of my account that deals with the forums; it seems that my password for logging in to the game is still unchanged (which is concerning). I assume that this is due to the odd bifurcation that I’ve noticed in my account. Resolution would be much appreciated, thanks!

I’m in the same boat…

I just completed the second to last mission, expecting to be able to continue on… Now I’m just disappointed. I even hoped against the odds that perhaps there was some dialog option with the npc at the entrance or some other entry point that would grant me access to a ‘personal story mode’ as opposed to the ‘dungeon story mode’ but of course that didn’t work out, haha.

The biggest problem I see is that while I can easily fit in little bits of my time to play solo, as someone who works and is enrolled in a Ph. D program I am often unable to find the time to play based on other people’s schedules (guildies), and if I were to PUG it a couple of difficult encounters for the group might make it hard for me to finish on time, which is unfortunate for me and the group I’d be leaving.

This is compounded by the fact that people who are interested enough in the personal story are probably also biased toward wanting to complete the dungeon story as well (myself included)…

I wouldn’t have any trouble doing this leisurely over a long period, but now the last personal story mission is also the last dungeon story mission. Anyone (I assume) who is in this for the story and the lore isn’t going to get through all of the earlier personal story missions just to then skip a large share of other story elements, so someone in my situation probably is not going to be able to complete the story in it’s current state for some time.

And yes, I understand that a lot of these constraints are self imposed, but they are also based on an understanding on how the last 40+ story missions worked… very disappointing.

I wonder if saved chests from before the event will have a chance of providing event items when opened during the event. This would seem most likely if all they do is alter the loot table of chests, which would probably also mean that event items wouldn’t drop from chests opened after the event.

The reason why people like Gabe Newell are so upset is that Microsoft is going to have a central location to sell games and just about any other software from a marketplace right on your desktop, which is what Valve does. Again, only the tablet version, Windows RT, will be limited with regard to what you can install. I’m not trying to be a windows 8 fanboy or anything; I probably wont get it for at least a year if I do depending on how it might augment my productivity, but the initial response was a lot of crying wolf over the potential for revenue stream disruption, and other loud people like Notch jumped on the bandwagon.

Licensing and the Microsoft app store will not affect steam or gw2 on windows 8; the only real concern is what performance changes come with win8 and how they ’ll affect gw2 etc.

Actually Veritech, steam will be completely available on the ‘normal’ editions of Windows 8. The appstore issue only really affects users of the tablet version. Like Apple, Microsoft is limiting the sale of programs/apps on portable devices running that special version of Windows. You can download and use steam just like you have before.

Back to the thread though, does windows 8 use the same drivers as 7/vista? I’d be less likely to consider upgrading ever if it has the same driver fiasco that Vista had upon launch. If it uses the same drivers I’d imagine that GW2 would perform somewhat similarly. I’d probably wait until the first service pack before upgrading though, just to help ensure that everything is nice and optimized… and fixed.

My Sylvari Engineer: Jules Vine
My Charr Thief: Redpaw Capone
My Asura Guardian: Ohm the Lawful

I really like this idea, I’m constantly forgetting to summon my desired mini-pet. The invisible bags are a nice touch so they don’t end up back in the bank with crafting stuff, but having mini-pets auto-summon every time some game mechanic like teleportation causes them to vanish would be great.

Thank you very much for the update = )

Way back on 8/30 I submitted ticket #120831-002406 regarding my upgrade to the digital deluxe edition. I recieved everything, except the skill. My main character (Mesmer) had just turned level 30, and he still lacks the skill today. All lower level characters have it opened (obviously they cant use it until level 30, but it’s ready for them when they get to that point).

I also posted about the issue in this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Upgraded-to-Digital-Deluxe-edition-but-did-not-Recieve-Mistfire-Wolf-Elite-skill/first#post34274

It seems that other people have had same issue, but we haven’t heard anything back. For me it’s been almost 2 weeks, and I saw today that my ticket was closed without resolution.

I understand that you’re prioritizing inaccessible accounts, but given that this issue also directly relates to monetary transactions and lack of delivered value I would respectfully request an update

Also: You might wish to reconsider the e-mails you sent out today advertising the deluxe edition upgrade. You’ve been aware of the issue, you haven’t (as far as I can find) provided any insight into the problem, and now it seems like you’re advertising the service. Loving the game, just wish I had everything that I paid for, thanks!

I reported the same problem on 8/30, still no response to my support ticket (120831-002406). It seems to be only happening on my main who had just turned level 30 when I made the purchase. It seems like my lower level characters are just fine and have the skill.