Guild Wars 2

March Across Tyria
A fundraising event for the fight against breast cancer.

Greetings from the Shade Warband, a Guild Wars 2 Guild!

As many of you know, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month in the U.S. In honour of this, we are organizing a fundraising drive entitled “March Across Tyria!”
We are hoping to raise a minimum of $1,000.00 for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation by hosting a fundraising event within the popular new online game, Guild Wars 2!

The event will be a walk across the in-game world, using our characters dressed in pink to help raise breast cancer awareness and hopefully help to make an impact!

Even a small donation of $5.00 helps, so if you’re here, go ahead and click that donate button!

Event Details:
You must have an active Guild Wars 2 game account to participate, but you need nothing but your generosity to donate!

Server: Tarnished Coast

When: Saturday, Oct 20th, 2012 @ 2:00pm Pacific Time

Where: Within Guild Wars 2, in the City of Rata Sum, near the Asura gates to Metrica Province.

Who: Contact Aryto Shadestalker, Nitt Shadeweaver, or Bryn Fangshade in the game with questions.

For complete information or to donate please visit:
http://www.crowdrise.com/shadewarband

My ticket of being permanently banned for hacking was resolved within 24-hours of my issuing of the ticket. Kudos to ArenaNet for such a fast response!

As far as the solution, I think it was mentioned somewhere that there was something in last night’s (09/08) build update and its security measures that accidentally perma-banned players who play on satellite internet (HughesNet and WildBlue ISP customers seemed widely affected). They were cited for “hacking the game or servers”, but it was a huge misunderstanding, I think.

ArenaNet was really quick on reinstating those of us who were affected (less than 24-hours since my ticket was submitted). I really feel for those of you who continue to wait with the more difficult issues like hacked/compromised accounts. Rest assured that ArenaNet is working hard to get all of us operational. Some fixes are just easier/faster than others.

Unbanned!

Thank you, Arena Net for such a quick response!

Another HughesNet customer, reporting in.

Mike, I’ve already PM’ed my ticket number for your review. Thanks for looking into this issue, as it affects a number of us who were banned without warrant!

I’ve been playing the game since Headstart without much in the way of issues. In fact, I often praised ArenaNet for a relatively smooth launch (at least for me, I can’t speak for everyone else.)

September 1 I was notified by email to attach Email Authentication to my account, which I did, approving my own IP address. No other Authentication requests have come through from anywhere else. The only person playing on my account is me. So I’m fairly certain I haven’t been hacked or my account compromised.

Last night, after the recent Build Reset, I was running around Timberline Hills and out of nowhere poof I get kicked offline with the message that I’ve been permanently banned for hacking. As of yet, I have heard nothing from ArenaNet, which is understandable given the sheer amount of load they have, but someone suggested posting here. So here I post.