Guild Wars 2

Telling people to submit support tickets is nice, and maybe you’ll get a response after feeling horrible for breaking some rule you didn’t even break—and maybe you’ll get account access back after your leisure time for the weekend has come and gone…

I think Gaile seems to be missing what the community is saying here: that ArenaNet has a very broken process for determining sanctions on a player account. It’s very much a guilty until proven innocent mindset and one that utterly saps enjoyment from the game.

And I’m affected too. When I logged in this morning, I was greeted with a demand to change my character name, which is the same name I’ve used for 7 years now. the message said my character name was using words or parts of words that were inappropriate.

I suspect, given that the SAME NAME is still good in GW1 (so apparently it’s appropriate there, but not in GW2…) that I was reported for having an inappropriate name by someone who didn’t like losing in a PVP match in the halloween events.

GuildWars2’s virtual point-n-click report system makes it far too easy for this kind of “pointing finger of the accuser is always right” mentality. If you’re going to ban accounts and character names, the process should be for bona fide violations of the user agreement and not for arbitrary and capricious causes. If bans are executed, then have the respect for the player and give the cause up front. This ban-first-then-research/respond-later-if-support-ticket-emerges strategy is not doing good things for community relations.

As many have said, this environment, which is fairly hostile toward players, is not one where I want to invest more than the $80 that I’ve already spent for a game I now can’t play unless I change my character name.

Trading Post has math problems!

I sold items in the TP window, the amount shown was 25s 28c less a 1s 27c fee.

The sale was successful!

I should have received 24s 1c, however, I was only able to pick up 22s 76c.

Something weird is happening!!! It’s as if the listing fee is being charged 2×.