Guild Wars 2

There’s a new round of these emails going out – especially to players who have thankfully never had this happen to them before. Anet did have one of their login databases compromised (though I doubt they’d admit it) and emails were taken resulting in a new round of people (including those with very secure accounts) receiving emails telling us to login and change our passwords due to our accounts being locked. The email is a fake – if you carefully look at the login link provided, the top-level domain is .pw where-as all NCSoft and GuildWars sites’ top-level domains are .com.

I personally received one of these emails, and this is the first time I ever have. The email address associated with my account is a dummy address ONLY used for this game and nothing else. I’ve spoken to a couple of others who have also received this email to their addresses – addresses which are also solely used for this game and nothing else. Since the people I’ve spoken to and myself have never used these email addresses or shared them with others, and have exercised diligent security bordering on paranoia- the only option left, no matter who much we don’t want to believe it, is that Anet has had a database compromised.

I’m not going to stop trebbing SM hours on end every time I’m out there – trying to get my fellow ferglings in the habit of doing it too. Get used to having the walls of SM always down. And I know we have the most perfectly annoying spot to drop trebs at Overlook that makes it a pita to kill them

That’s a VERY old exploit that’s well known and been reported to Anet who knows how many times. I believe you could do it in beta too. All from that exact spot.