Guild Wars 2

In my mind, if this 3rd party gold purchases was such an issue, to combat the loss of revenue to arenanet, you’d think they would perhaps hire a small team and implement a system that throws flags to that small team of say gold transfers 1000g and up per week, for which arenanet could take the difference of income to pay that small team to review those flags. This method they currently plan to implement is rather big brotherish in my eyes.

Erus Keb.8379:

allen johnston.8419:

Now I won’t be able to do this as readily, but then again I guess at most I would lose is 500g to a hacker if I catch it within the weeks time.

Here’s my interpretation: If someone hacked your account with say 2000g in it. They could send 500g to 4 of their own accounts (or customer accounts). They could actually send 500g x4 to one account but it would take 4 weeks to pull the gold out of the mail into the wallet. The money is sent without issue (your 2k gold is gone), the limit is only on taking it out of the mail. The above is assuming you had the 2k gold in your wallet. If that same 2k was in your personal guild gold storage, then they would only be able to take 500g out.

I don’t recall anyone else mentioning it but point 7 is bugging me. A future change could be changing the amount to less than 500g per week.

Oh okay, I thought it was you could only send 500g and receive 500g, but with being able to send it all, yes, this system is rather inefficient in my eyes. A gold buyer could buy 3000g on 6 accounts then, and convert the gold to an in game item via the auction house to get the gold to their main account.

This does seem like a small amount to cap. I could easily see 1000g being more feasible. I have several accounts that I dispersed my gold on, just in case one did get hacked(as I’ve been hacked a few times in my MMO career) that I would not lose all of my gold at once, but rather only a fraction of it. I do have the email authentication, but if they got past that, at least I have more peace at mind as to how much gold they can take. Whenever I wanted to make a large purchase in game, I would just move some gold from one account to another. Now I won’t be able to do this as readily, but then again I guess at most I would lose is 500g to a hacker if I catch it within the weeks time.

Gaile, can I please have your mini frog on guild wars 1?