Guild Wars 2

Moonthrower.1406:

shazbham.6312:

RLDragon.1738:

Check the support boards forum. There is a sticky post on this very subject.

I did before I even posted this and all it says is to disable your firewall if you want to play the game and make sure you’re running it as administrator. I’m running it as administrator and for Ncsoft to tell us to disable our firewalls is akin to telling someone who loses their keys to keep their door unlocked. It’s lame and not very professional at all! Then again I don’t expect much more form them considering they allowed a ton of accounts to get hacked as soon as this game went live. Just goes to show you how inept their tech support really is!

Sorry, just calling it as I see it.

They didn’t allow anything… shoddy password/account habits from USERS allowed a ton of accounts to get hacked.

Also, disable your AVG firewall to play, reenable it afterwards… or try contacting AVG’s support instead of GW2.

but my advice is to get avast! anti-virus, as it’s far superior to anything i’ve seen out there. (besides maybe the guys over at malwarebytes.)

Obviously you have no clue what goes into software engineering? You learn early on how to write user access control into your software so that your customers can only do what YOU want them to do. If they are allowed to create simple, easy, stupid login names and passwords they will. If you allow them to login using 1234 and have a password of abcd then they will, it’s up to the software engineer to make sure that they are creating a secure environment for those who want to use it. Only a simpleton would blame the customer for having his account hacked. Giving your login name and password to someone else is not being hacked, it just plain ole stupid.

As for your advice about what antivirus to use, dropping your firewall while you play then raising it after, thanks, but no thanks, I’ll pass! I like to keep the information on my computer ON my computer and not someone else’s :P~

You should stop giving out advice until you become educated enough to actually be in a position to do so, from what I’m reading you’re not there yet!

Have a great day!

shingui.4197:

did you really check the tech suuport forums?
because there is a thread on how to configure AVG firewall…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Configuring-AVG

perhaps searching more thoroughly before taking a pop at Anet and getting angry, will get you better results in future :/

After going in and looking at the post a little more closely I could tell that the post was written in a hurry, not very well done, the directions are wrong at the beginning and your everyday average computer user would have a “VERY” hard time trying to follow what was written. It takes time and experience knowing how to word something so that people of every skill level can follow it. That post does not meet those requirements, sorry.

Did YOU look at what the post said? Did YOU try and follow the directions? Remember, not everyone has the latest version of AVG, some have ONLY the antivirus, some have the internet security suite, which is different and you have to know what you’re doing to follow what was written in that post.

BUT, at least it is there now and available for those who want to search for it.

shingui.4197:

did you really check the tech suuport forums?
because there is a thread on how to configure AVG firewall…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Configuring-AVG

perhaps searching more thoroughly before taking a pop at Anet and getting angry, will get you better results in future :/

Actually a search DID NOT turn this up, at least not before yesterday, they must have done some work on their search engine and included that in the patch that came out yesterday?

I just built a brand new PC:

Rosewill Chllenger Case
Corsair TX-650 Power Supply
AMD FX-6100 Black Edition CPU
8GB Gskill DDR3 1600 Ram
XFX Double D 2GB HD7850 Graphic Card
Asus M5A97 Motherboard
Kingston 128GB SSD
Seagate 2TB Hard Drive
Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO CPU Cooler
V7 24" HD LED Monitor Running in HDMI

Overclocked to just under 4MHZ

When I play the game I use a Logitech M5970 Wireless trackball and a Logitech G13 Advanced gameboard programmed specifically to the game.

I created a new rule and have my firewall in game mode so I should be able to play GW2 while the firewall is up, but I can’t? I went to the tech support forum and found that a lot of other people are experiencing the same problems and so far Tech Support has not done anything to help.

So I’m in here wondering if any of you have had the same problem and fixed it? I know that tech support is slammed because I’ve been waiting a week now to get an account issue for Guild Wars taken care of and so far I still can’t get in and no answers from tech support either?

Is GW and GW2 tech support always this slow?

Well one things for sure, the people in this game are a whole lot friendlier than I’m used to in an MMO, one of the things that always turned me off on WOW. Thanks to everyone who has replied to my first post, I sure do appreciate it!

I played the original Guild Wars when it first came out years ago and never really liked it much, but then again about that time I was experiencing severe MMO burn out having played just about everything from The Realm – UO – WOW and then some.

I did recently try going back into Guild Wars and and play my account , but so far I still can’t because I’m waiting for Ncsoft to get my account back in order so I can play it?

Anyways I decided to buy this game and today I played it for the first time on the new PC I just built(AMD FX-6100, XFX Double D 2GB HD7850, 8GB Gskill Ram etc etc), and I love the way the game looks and feels to a point, but so far I find the controls very hard to get used to (and I’m using a G13 game pad), and trying to figure out what to do, when and where and I keep having this stupid window pop up telling me something about I can travel now or get back in the queue (and I didn’t even do anything to want to travel anywhere).

I’m also finding the targeting system hard to get used to (Playing an elementalist right now), the merchant is hard to figure out as well as some other things. The worst part for me so far is the way the quests are given. I find it hard to see what to do, where to do it and when they are done, then I can’t figure out what I get for a reward and how do I get that reward?

So if someone could give me a brief run down of how to play the game in a few easy words that would be great. I have been out of MMO’s for quite awhile, but I didn’t have this much trouble playing Rift(leveled 4 toons up to 60 then got bored) or Diablo III even though I know D III is not really an MMO.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m NOT putting guild Wars 2 down at all, I’m just looking for help trying to play the game while having fun doing so is all.

Thanks