Guild Wars 2

Lambent.6375:

CaptnRio.2705:

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That’s not why those trains are hard to come by.

Frostgorge train got nerfed into oblivion. (I mean, someone can still do it if they want to, but yeh)

There is no train in CS, or at least I have yet to see one since megaservers arrived.
Cursed Shore is a land of chaos, I mean, it’s an okay place for events and loot, but it’s not as great as it could be, because people in cursed generally do what they want to do, and they wont form up in any train or anything, and wont even bother to call out events sometimes ,and people are often arguing about whether to defend an event, or let it fail., and do things like start Plinx when an event at shelter is going on, etc

Queensdales isn’t really about the loot, at least not for most people I would think. I just got done participating in the “train” to finish my daily. Train in quotes because someone was trolling it of course. (unless you don’t count running around as a zerk warrior dpsing champs down, and not even bothering to call them out not trolling, and when they happen to catch up to you, immediately port to a different champ)

Not sure if serious Lambent.
There is always a train operating across Curshed Shore.. I even popped on at 8.30am today and there was one running.
Worse now the much larger trains start out at Mage then just repeatedly fail Shelter to respawn the event over and over for champ bags… at least the likes of Frostgorge and Queensdale actually do complete things and move on through their rotations.
Failing event purposely to respawn is likely exploiting the system but its become par for the course for GW2.
Champ trains do a multiple of things.. they can help you level, they can get your dailies and they can get you some the odd shiny and some coin for your boredom.. but it also creates toxicity across the maps.. trains think they own maps and cry insults and abuse to any and all that wish to “play the game they want” if a champ is killed out of their little bubble rotations.
New players can be put of for sure or worse just join in and learn the only way ANET like this game to run…. zerg style. Then they hit Orr and facepalm in Grenth or such without a clue and lay there not evening realising what to do or how staying dead affect everyone else there.
Add to that you get players who get tired of the train abuse and start to go out of their way to purposely mess rotations up or troll events in spite.
Yes trains have a purpose, but not in starter maps and they certainly don’t own maps when they run, but until ANET does something to kill the trains either by heavy DR, reward lock outs or simply killing the rotations like they have with other World Bosses, then this is how GW2 will play out repeatedly.

Caedmon.6798:

How many p2p games were succesfull ? And dont name that “One”…All other p2p’s have failed miserably and will continue to do so.

How are you measuring success and failure.. some of the better P2P MMO’s that have been around as long as “that one” if not longer, are still out there in the marketplace only they now cater for all business models to keep as many hooks out there.
There are some very obvious failures out there of course, but some of those also include F2P and B2P.. its not necessarily the payment model that causes MMO’s to tank or fly high.
I think its a misconceived opinion that if games are F2P/B2P then quality and quantity of content/support are lessened much the same as thinking you get more and better if there is a subscription.
It all comes down to choices and not just financial ones. One prime example comes to mind.. recent’ish MMO, huge IP, very large budget, content ok but bug wridden and terrible performance issues right off the bat… game becomes a ghost town across the hundreds of servers … soon goes F2P got a bit better (cudn’t get any worse) but still offers subscription – make ya choice

WvW rank doesn’t make you a commander.. I would hazard the majority of WvW players could hit rank 200 in a few heartbeats whilst chugging there WXP pots and hiding amongst the 40+ hammer train zergfests…. add to that Auto attacking in a huddle during Teq/Wurm etc doesn’t prove anything either so were stuck with what we have, besides ANET likes it cos 100g often means gem sales.

papryk.6273:

yes nerf it to the ground…make him (again) like shaterrer so ppl can just afk and auto-attack him…nerf him to the ground I say! This game don’t need any end game content or hard bosses to kill that needs some tactics…

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Isn’t that what most do at Teq anyways.. least the last 10+ runs I have done since Megaserver… then again the tosh spawn timer doesn’t help at all of course.

I don’t agree with nerfing TEQ but something definitely needs to be done with this god awful megaserver/boss malarkey. Camping an hour or more just to get into your own Teq run with guild mates, friends, people speaking the same language .. is this meant to be the real challenge followed by endless typing to tell the dead to WP when they go all out auto in the poison and ripple, which becomes entwined in endless map screams for turrets to hit~2 cos there is no condi removal… .
Many of us get it, it’s tough content that needs some organisation.. I am all for it and respect others that try… but the challenge isn’t TEQ anymore its getting to it with the others you organise and coordinate your attempts with, and TEQ isn’t the only Boss that’s become an even bigger lottery than before megaserver.

hmmm I had 15 items listed.. not been able to check anything, so I will just assume the worse :-( .. … just another day in GW2 paradise.

I think what is more concerning is that it appears the person from support seems to have no handle on the issue… this is not an issue with who creates a guild or how it’s set up to function, it only takes one account breach to wipe it all out, rendering its inclusion in the game all but useless .
Sure everyone is accountable for their own security, I think we get that and I would hazard many of us do all that is humanely possible for the average everyday person, yet accounts are still being compromised thus leaving guild banks open to a hackers mercy… and they know it.
Even if the guild leader applies a no item removal policy to each rank it does nothing cos if the guild leader gets hacked, it’s all over anyway.

I understand ANET don’t have guild bank restoration, bad imo but that’s how it is.. what they should do is have a tighter security element tied to item removal from a guild bank, maybe even personal banks.. maybe utilise the mobile authenticator (if a player has it setup on their account) or a unique 6-digit pin that is setup by the individual in the guild who has item removal rights… that pin can’t be changed without first applying the old pin of course.
This would surely help safeguard a lot of bank issues across the game and may reduce the restoration time required when an account becomes compromised, because the majority of issues will then be centred around the actual players inventory, which will likely have a large proportion of soul/account bound items anyways leaving a few items and gold to be restored.

Just my 2 cents, and I know it sounds easier than it likely is to implement.

How can I answer what ANET would and wouldn’t do.. that kind of thing is something I am not parlez to.. then again neither are you, so I throw the question back at ya.
Bliz and ANET are different companies, because one does something does that in fact mean everyone else would follow the same path.. are you really that naïve?

And back what up.. it was a “what if” scenario, there is nothing to back up… sheez have you got past 3rd grade yet?

lordkrall.7241:

Oh, so why did Blizzard do it then?
Why would Blizzard announce something like that, but ArenaNet wouldn’t?

Sounds like you simply want to feed some sort of conspiracy about ArenaNet or something like that, rather than actually looking at the facts.

I am not feeding anything.. I was actually putting it out as a “what if” ….

Look we can all see that you enjoy playing a lap dancers to the Gods in this forum so lets hope such events don’t happen to you shall we, I would hate those facts to come bite ya where it might hurt most.

Astral Projections.7320:

Bloodstealer.5978:

lordkrall.7241:

Bloodstealer.5978:

You only see forum posts.. not everyone raises tickets via come to the forums… very small proportion of people actually come here in the first place.
The question you really should be asking.. would ANET announce if they did have issues .. I think not perosnallly

So you are basically claiming that Gaile is blatantly lying when she states that there have not been a massive increase in tickets about hacked accounts?

If there was a security breach, they it is extremely unlikely that they would not inform the player-base and tell them to change passwords and so on.

Try reading my post again…

No where did I say she was lying.. I said “don’t get me wrong I am not saying there has been anything untoward happen back at HQ”
But even if there was Gaile would likely not be able to say anything outside a script either way unless ANET big wigs themselves decide on it.

Playing a white Knight sometimes means you have to look outside that little box and consider all da worldly things gwassopper

Ahhhhh. Ok. So since she specifically said there hasn’t been a massive increase in hacked accounts, if you are right then either people in the know lied to her, which is illegal and could lead to lawsuits if it came out. Or they told her the truth and she came to the forum and outright lied. (Tsk tsk Gaile!) Or ANet is so incompetent that they can’t understand their own metrics and see the truth.

Good to know.

I think the only one showing incompetence here might be you, sorry to say.. your reading into something that isn’t there to be read.. its a “what if” scenario, not a “she has lied or has been lied to” .. stop letting your brain put words into your own mouth and take off the rose tinted blinkers… you might just read better.

Ellieanna.5027:

You guys remember the force password change back in October when Blizzard’s database of account information was hacked. Remember when Anet decided to force everyone in GW2 to change their password because of that?

I do and it wasn’t even Anet who was hacked, it was Blizzard’s database and Anet took the step to force everyone to change their password to ensure if someone had people’s email addresses and Blizzard passwords they wouldn’t try it on GW2. So to anyone who says Anet doesn’t care. They took that step back then, and it wasn’t even on their side where the information was stolen.

And your point being.

Esy to put out a statement advising that when a competitor gets hit… as I am sure those same customers would do should ANET get hit…. that isn’t the issue .
The discussion was centred around if there was something of that magnitude happening back at Anet HQ would there be an official statement made, maybe even a temporary shutdown of servers while they sort it out or would they play it down and hope they can move fast enough to close the issue before it became virulent .. ..
I think given a choice we would all prefer a statement to take preventative actions, even after the event.. that’s just being prudent, but when it actually happens and potentially on such a larger scale, with the potential to have wider reaching impact ……well that’s a whole different ball game with all manner of knock on effects.

lordkrall.7241:

Bloodstealer.5978:

You only see forum posts.. not everyone raises tickets via come to the forums… very small proportion of people actually come here in the first place.
The question you really should be asking.. would ANET announce if they did have issues .. I think not perosnallly

So you are basically claiming that Gaile is blatantly lying when she states that there have not been a massive increase in tickets about hacked accounts?

If there was a security breach, they it is extremely unlikely that they would not inform the player-base and tell them to change passwords and so on.

Try reading my post again…

No where did I say she was lying.. I said “don’t get me wrong I am not saying there has been anything untoward happen back at HQ”
But even if there was Gaile would likely not be able to say anything outside a script either way unless ANET big wigs themselves decide on it.

Playing a white Knight sometimes means you have to look outside that little box and consider all da worldly things gwassopper

lordkrall.7241:

I might have missed something somewhere, but how can you know for sure that your email account isn’t compromised? As far as I know I am completely unable to see if any other IPs than my own is connected, at least with and hotmail and gmail.

There are two possible scenarios here:
1: ArenaNet have a security breach.
2: You have a security breach.

If 1 was the case we would have seen a massive influx of reports, which Gaile claim that there have not been, and why would she lie about that?

You only see forum posts.. not everyone raises tickets and comes to the forums… very small proportion of people actually come here in the first place.
The question you really should be asking.. would ANET announce if they did have issues .. I think not personally. GG is simply towing a line set in stone, veering off that line would be more than her jobs worth. Don’t get me wrong I am not saying that there has been anything untoward happen back a HQ but something has definitely happened somewhere, your just not wanting to look beyond the forums.. take a look around the other social media sites used, other forums etc then consider how many others may also be in the ticketing system.. must be hefty for them to of come out and apologise for the additional time its now taking to get through the list of unhappy customers.

Astral Projections.7320:

If they gave multiple resets to people, what’s to stop people from getting together to scam the system? One person give another the login information. The second “hacks” the account and “steals” everything. Then the first person gets an full account restore. Rinse and repeat. If the “hacker” uses trial accounts where possible or buys them when on sale he doesn’t have to risk his main account.

One thing Gaile has said is they are currently banning a lot of gold sellers. These people are now taking over accounts they hacked previously but left sitting untouched. This may account for a lot of people getting hit now.

Really they are banning lots of them.. except lots of them being the original account holders.. what is that actually doing, not a lot.. most gold seleers use hacked accounts to do it from and then they run to the next.. banning goldsellers is trivial because of this. Add to that they obviously have a strong market to outside of using hacked accounts so getting one seller banned does very little except to provide ANET with another small fee for a new account purchase….. on one habd they might loose a legit player through anger and frustration, they pick up a new sell from a goldseller opening his/her next account.

Add to that .. take a google around the interweebs and see how many sites have GW2 accounts up for sale…. doesn’t take too many brain cells to see where the easy wins come from for these kind of people.

lordkrall.7241:

But if they give consideration to some people, they would have to do it to EVERYONE at ALL TIME, and that WILL effect the economy quite a bit. And therefore they simply don’t do it for anyone.

I would hazard a guess there are a lot more accounts being hacked than what we see reported/deleted here and repeatedly hacked … even the hacksters can read forums and know there is a delay in getting accounts restored so they bide their time to strike again I guess… seems changing passwords and such are making little difference as well…. time will tell I guess

Ronah.2869:

Bloodstealer.5978:

Interesting sites for checking.. seems mine is perfectly ok.. but events of the last week seem to suggest otherwise.. or is there something more sinister happened beyond mine or others control and we just haven’t heard anything… I am sure at some point it will all come out in the wash, literally!

I remember someone in this forum said that they might have insiders who could give account information to hackers as long as their staff members say they have no vulnerability in their servers or databases and no information has been liked.
All these hacks generate a bad image to this company. Competition is really hard in this MMO business so it isn’t really far to think that the competitors could send some of their spies to get hired into A-net and ruin them from the inside.

Nah I think that would be overstepping the mark just a tad…maybe, but if something more sinister out in the big world has gotten through some of the worlds biggest and baddest organisations, what would it take to get into smaller fry like ANET, BLIZ, etc… just we would never really be told about it. other than its our fault we all get hacked. Now I am sure sometimes that is not beyond the actual facts, but many of us do all we can to ensure we are as watertight as possible, with the tools available to us yet never seems to fill all the gaps apparently

Interesting sites for checking.. seems mine is perfectly ok.. but events of the last week seem to suggest otherwise.. or is there something more sinister happened beyond mine or others control and we just haven’t heard anything… I am sure at some point it will all come out in the wash, literally!

Just makes no sense whatsoever.. in fact no sense lately in having a guild bank what with all the account hacking going on now..

RcKelly.9263:

I have been on nearly every server in EU and seen how it developed, this is my opinion but ANET just dont get it players are so serious in WvW and competitive that is great but the game is not build around.

The server doesn’t mean anything is all about coverage people play wvw to fight not siege and cap and farm champions, it based around GvGs.

And as for map chat all i see on all servers is “Join Teamspeak” and dont get me started on the personality of people on team speak.

O’ Heck.. it’s not dying again is it?? … “bites nails furiously”
We best get off our TS channels and start writing in map chat to save it, otherwise … THE END!

Gees if I had £1 for every thread on every gaming forum that said this.. I would top dog on the money lists.
Sure WvW is nothing more than a champ train waiting to happen but that’s down to poor game design imo.. trouble is easy loot, easy win is still attractive to a heck of a lot of players as far as I can see…

But some only see DOOM101011 rather than FUN666

Surely when an account is flagged as compromised ANET would/could/should perform such background checks prior to releasing the account back into the game… instead of allowing a player to finally get back into game already facing the prospect of having everything stripped from their possession and facing another lengthy wait for an account restoration only to then be hit with a ban for something that should of been considered right from the outset of a reviewing the ticket.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Your browser can remember your password and log in. Has nothing to do with Anet site security (as far as it knows, your browser IS sending the credentials again when you access the page). This is a browser setting on your computer (and you can change it to NOT remember passwords at certain sites if you desire…..how to do that depends on the browser being used). Note that another computer (or even user logged into your computer) will NOT get access to MY ACCOUNT on this site without typing in your credentials (at least once).

Are you 100% sure your associate email account has not been compromised. Email account hackers are usually very adept at keeping the actual account user from knowing the account is being monitored and used to try and hack other sites.

Agree web browsers do indeed retain info in their cache.. mine gets emptied on closure but I understand and agree with what your saying. I can’t ever remember visiting and then revisiting a site where it automatically remembered me and failed to require a new login to get into my account.. but that I surely can do on this site, surely they should have some form of process to eliminate that potential risk.

With regards to my own associate email.. All I can do is keep everything checked and updated my end.. when I was hacked last week the first thing I ddi was inform my email provider and got them to also check for any possible breaches their end and to look at my email calls. nothing was found and I actually found out that they had already put in place additional specific measures in the wake of heartbleed etc , which was good to hear as well.

I guess at the end of the day all we can do is make ourselves as watertight as is possible and trust that others do the same as I previously said… waiting to see what potential fallout there is from today announcement about the IE flaw that’s been alerted.. guess the cyber wars are in full bloom nowadays.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Bloodstealer.5978:

Ticket 566783..
After the recent hacking malarkey I have finally been able to gain access to my account today.. Thanks to GM Little for your assistance, someone finally read the issues within the ticket, not just reset a password..

I requested within my ticket that my account be fully restored.. when logging in to the game 30 mins ago and almost 5 days after the ticket was submitted, I find the account still unrestored, pretty much empty and the frustration is boiling over.

Please restore my account to the state is was in prior to it being compromised on 23rd of April… all items, gear, money, gems etc.. and our guild bank is completely empty as well!.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Tickets-for-Review-3-days-older-Part-2-merged/page/8#post3961628

Yeah your point is??….. Last I checked my Ticket566783 is 3days+ and funnily enough posted in the very thread you linked… .. I am asking for the ticket to be looked at, which is the point of the thread and the ticket requests account restore.. I am not asking for individual items or refunds or duplicate tickets I am seeking conclusion to my Ticket 566783

Maybe take a break from posting in every single account issue thread.. even White Knights need a rest some time.

LyricDawnhagen.7803:

Actually they do not need your 22 character long game password or access to your computer. All they need is to get access to your web based email. Gaile posted that in nearly every one of the account compromises the thieves also had access to the user’s email . With the (account name) email they then can gain control of your game account AND prevent you from ever knowing they have done so until you try to log in and find your password does not work and there is a mobile authenticator installed on your account.

While it is a good thing that you are using a good strong password on your game account and virus scan your computer, you also need to perhaps check your smartphone, tablet or other places (computers) you access your email from. Just getting one malicious app installed on your phone or tablet will give them access to your email and all the business and personal information you store there.

Please remember, the people that are trying to steal your account these days are not the “noble hackers” or “kid that lives in his parents basement” or “poor gold farmer” any more. These are professional thieves that make a very good living at stealing your information and using it or selling it to people that will use it. So be sure to also secure and double check all the many possible ways you could be giving up your email password.

I think you missed the point of the reply to Incalp.. but no iprobs.

To add though, for info.. I don’t use webmail and don’t use my phone for emails or online social media.. in fact I really should try to get a cheaper package for my phone contracts… I don’t think I have ever downloaded an app on my phone until yesterday when I put got the authenticator and linked it to my account.. and the info that site holds is at least 5 years out of date in regards to personal info and certainly isn’t the same using my GW2 email but aside from all that I am in total agreement with you.. its way to easy for others to get info on us all these days and use it for .. other purposes.

Then again its also nothing new either.. I was in NY 5 years ago and bought something using an online system.. going out for dinner that evening I was suddenly hit with having £1700 less in my account… so now I have completely different banks accounts, all manner of protections in place on the new accounts, killed off all online banking and I limit what online spending I do from an account that has nothing in it until I physically put it in… only thing I did do was change account passwords on that old email account .. so yeah call me nervous but I am pretty distrusting of anything online these days… but like many of us do, I do all I can to try and limit the potential, even though that’s never going to be enough.. hence I was hacked a few days back.

Interesting I read only today the latest security flaw with Microsoft IE…. No matter what we do to protect ourselves, ultimately we rely and trust in others to safeguard that info as well.. and sometimes that trust is left questionable.

Ticket 566783..
After the recent hacking malarkey I have finally been able to gain access to my account today.. Thanks to GM Little for your assistance, someone finally read the issues within the ticket, not just reset a password..

I requested within my ticket that my account be fully restored.. when logging in to the game 30 mins ago and almost 5 days after the ticket was submitted, I find the account still unrestored, pretty much empty and the frustration is boiling over.

Please restore my account to the state is was in prior to it being compromised on 23rd of April… all items, gear, money, gems etc.. and our guild bank is completely empty as well!.

Well after the hacking of my account recently and the palaver around getting it back up and running I would like to enquire about a few things -

Why after logging out of the forums then logging back in say 20+ mins later.. I actually don’t even need to log in as the forum remembers and opens the gateway to things such as MY Account.. unbelievable really.

If I log out of the site or close the web page completely etc I should not be able to just re access such information so easily.. surely I should be required to enter my password etc… surely.

Only this morning, after pulling teeth to get action on my ticket since April 23rd I was presented with "we have today reset the passwprd on your account please follow the link to update your password… or words to this effect.
Sounds great except somewhere in the [process it was kinda not noticed that the ticket specified the hacker had placed their mobile authenticator on the account – so what was the point of resetting a password when access to the account was blocked anyway..hmmm

How does one make changes to a players account like adding authenticators, changing passwords etc without a single email or notification from ANET to allow me to verify it… does this ability to simply reopen the forum and go straight into myaccount without logging in somehow open that gateway for wannabe hackers.

When the hack was taking place I was logged into the forums and could see all the IP addresses opened.. forcing them to disconnect worked for about 2 attempts before the I became locked out of the myaccount page temporarily with like a DoS type attack then I could retry disconnecting.. rinse repeat.

To note – I never use the same password twice anywhere so this hack was kinda strange and in many cases my passwords are pretty long and sometimes I cant even remember them ..add to that I tend to keep passwords reasonably fresh including my own email password.. So this hack was a surprise to me even though I could see it unfoulding in front of me

Dave.7085:

Just read this as well

“Mail authentication is made useless by the mobile authenticator : if a hacker gets one person’s account name and password and then logs into the guild wars 2 website, he can enable Mobile Authentication which will bypass the mail authentication.”

You know their going to close this thread as well.. damage limitation at its finest, while players accounts are left in the lap of the gods along with who knows what other info.

Already have / did have / have again…

checked for a keylogger.. nothing shows up on malware bytes but will be changing my mail password ASAP… already asked for ANET to sort the account issues out but so far no dice.

Its exactly whats been happening to a lot of people today.. in game chat was alive with issues, facebook and on here.. first you get logged out due to account being accessed from another location, maybe an email requesting password or network authorisation don’t authorise – not that it makes any difference cos they still get in).. then they will likely set up an authenticator on the account to keep it in their possession until hopefully ANET do something!
Rest is in the lap of the gods right now

As I have posted on other threads my account has been compromised and whoever has done it now has a mobile authenticator set up so I can get into the game to secure bank ands guild bank items.

ANET please remove the kitten authenticator and allow me to setup a new email address on the account or something.. password changes have no effect and if I try disconnecting the offender using the security tab on myaccount they simply lock me out of the account forcing me to relog into the forums and go to my account.. luckily it still remembers me so I can keep disconnecting.. god knows what has been done to my account and my guild s bank… but this unholy mess has gotten out of control these last few days… something has happened and your not saying anything that’s for sure.

Yeah and look now at all the accounts being attacked.. has what’s been done back at base opened up a big hole in security.. many of us now have no access to the game and our accounts compromised by hackers… this is a giant mess and very serious.. go take a look at your facebook pages, look at the number of hack threads.. this is no coincidence imo something more sinister appears to have happened .. ANET needs to make a statement and/or close the game off to sort it out

Count yourself lucky you can get back in and have the chance to secure your guild bank and pass stuff to a trusted guildie form your own toon bank account.. whoever has hacked mine now has an authenticator setup to stop me getting into the game and no word from anet to fix it

ANET you need tomake an official statement on this and close the game off until your security is sorted.. sooo many players now.. I bet all our guild bank is gone, all alts cleared and god knows what else the hackers have gained access to. like personal info, credit card details.. this is a mess!!!!!!!

My account is now useless to log into as they have set up an authenticator.. when I use the myaccount I can still change passwords but I cant login into game cos I cant authenticate the mobile app numbers… so I cant remove the kitten thing.
All I can do is keep my forum account open and keep disconnecting them at the security tab but minutes later they lock me back out

Well mine has been hacked today, I am seriously kittened.. GW2 is obviously nor secure anymore.. their is soo many hack reports alone today its seriously worrying… now someone has set up their own authenticator and continually authorising access

Your line of questioning on this raises suspicion that what Gaile identified is what’s happened.. you had a bad name.. you wont be asked to pay, but learn from the issue.. could of been at an important stage in say a 3-headed Wurm and you get booted.. loosing any hope of getting back into the event and wasting time, loot and other nice things potentially.

Thing is I never authorised for my password to be changed to start with but there was an email that came in requesting a change request to be authorised, which I dod noteven touch, just deleted straight away.. this seems to be escalating a lot in the last week.. megaserver perhaps, as a lot of players in game are now starting to question cos of all the goldselling spam and complaints in game about hacked account etc.. something needs to be done and fast otherwise this game is going to become so insecure .. ooh wait when does GW2 go into beta etc in china.. ohh wait, it has

Mine has been attacked today.. could not log into game after logging out earlier.. password had been changed. However I was still logged in myaccount on the forums so I went to the security tab and sure enough their was a Chinese IP attempting to gain network authorization.
I did the password reset via email ankitten ow back in game but if this has proven to be that easy for hackers .. god help everyone in the game.. this is very, very worrying.

What’s disconcerting is the apparent increase today in accounts being hacked.. mine was attempted earlier.. luckily I was still logged into my account via the forum after logging out of the game so the person from a Chinese location must of been having difficulty cracking my account.. a quick disconnect of their network authorization and a change of passwords etc seems to have halted them.. for now.

What I want to hear is that ANET are getting this issue sorted.. your Megaserver shambles has seen an abundance of “Hace a nice Day” goldspammers coming out of the woodwork and strange password change authentication emails.. someone is getting into our info somewhere and its pretty disconcerting to be honest!.

Voxer.8704:

So… I don’t know where I need to turn, because nothing I’ve tried works and I know this forum gets checked.

My issue is: I can’t access my NCSoft account… I tried the Password Reset on the site, the response was I should wait upwards to 30 minutes. I did. Twice. Nothing.

So I sent a mail to support@ncsoft.com and got a reply that that mail isn’t checked anymore and my ticket was closed. Great. It then told me I need to click which game I’m having issues with (None really) and go from there. And the only password reset on this site is for my Guild Wars account, which I don’t have a trouble with.

Evil loop, evil I say >: Either way, help wanted.

Well I am guessing something sinister is going on.. my account has also become unusable as of about 20mins ago.

I received a mysterious email from ANET earlier requesting authorisation for a password reset, which of course I did not and continued playing GW2 until about 2 hrs ago.. I tried logging in 15mins ago and bingo account not recognised

Well Anet has already begun closing threads that have been both constructive and poignant in pointing out the many frustrations and concerns around the megaserver, WB synchronisation and the shambles this patch has brought out of the woodwork.. so don’t expect anything to come from this thread either.. ANETs approach to handled anything that is not considered positive feedback to them is close it or ignore then close it.. speaks volumes imo.

Yip agree with everything DV has highlighted.. these changes have done nothing but hurt the event for communities and guild costs are simply too expensive considering the amount of successful runs that actually get accomplished.

ANET .. its fine reducing the amount of spawn times for these events, it keeps them popular, but every 8 hrs is too harsh and the times you have chosen are simply too restrictive for the majority of the community imo… maybe every 6 hrs preferably 4hrs spawning but please the love of all things GW2 adjust these silly timings.

moiraine.2753:

I’m really curious when will the Orr Temples be added in the timer tab with the rest World Bosses and events?Also why weren’t they added in the first place in the rotation?

Quite a few dev posts exist from the likes of DC etc. saying how they wanted to bring more players to Orr, cos lets be honest its been pretty much a ghost town since month 2.

By leaving temples out of the rotation, adding in the trait unlocks and keeping the champs untouched it meant a new wave of champ trains and Temple runners have been spawned out of the WB synchronisation…. don’t worry though it wont last for long when ANET checks its metrics on the spoils players begin to make from doing it over and over.
Cant make a WB cos of schedule fiasco, don’t worry Queensdale, Frosty and Orr will fill ya purses instead until they nerf it all back some more.

Junkpile.7439:

Well you don’t have to exploit just because you can.

Why is using multi monitor exploiting.. Nvidia Surround etc are legitimate – just ask ANET, they support it. Some people like to use 2 or 3 monitor setups for amore immersive gaming experience, just cos some don’t want to or cant doesn’t make it an exploit and certainly not a hack.

BTW I use a single monitor and have no issues with AC’s being aimed at my rear end.. I am just not dumb enough to stand inside the circles when they do or place sieges in easy hit places like many scrubs do all the time then come on the forums to cry foulplay when they get pummelled.

Simples.. don’t buy gems from the store and play with what you have… the only way ANET will take things seriously is if the repercussions to things like this hurt them where it hurts most..in the bean pots.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Khezekiah Bellamy.5016:

zoom hacking is no longer an issue, as i have 3 monitors i can confirm ACs now have a limited LoS that can hit, reguardless if a player has the ability to see somewhere the AC seems to be limited by a set standard LoS limitation

See? Zoom hacker confirmed.

Stupid answer is just… well stupid.

Nowhere in that person post did it suggest he/she was zoom hacking.. multi monitor is a supported function by ANET.
You clearly don’t even know the difference between a zoom hack and legitimate FoV techniques via that are fully supported by ANET… you wanna call someone out aim it at the people that implemented the mechanics of the game not others just cos u got ya butt shot full of arrows.

Maybe do some read up before coming out and calling others zoom hackers so blatantly without the slightest clue of what your talking about.

But hey come Monday this thread will be reaching out for the bottom of the black hole anyway.

Wouldn’t worry about the chat language filter.. as far as I can tell it doesn’t work anyway.
Been on three maps and EotM today.. my language server is English, I have got the language filter on and still see dutch, german and all manner of other lingo..
Don’t get me wrong, I couldn’t careless where your from and what language you speak but there is no point having this tool in the first place imo when a language can be set to one thing as a default and then they simply start spurting out all there guild spam, chat spam, profanities, LFG spam etc and general chit caht in a different language endlessly.

Someone back at base, as ever, couldn’t be bothered to think it through properly or even be bothered to test it properly imo.

Julie Yann.5379:

I’ve played TESO and quite frankly, their WvW is not that great. The fights in GW2 are way more fun.

Yeah cos crunching #11111 in a haze of particle effects makes it soooo immersive.

Large scale fights in WvW have become nothing more than a skill lagfest which for me ruins that fun considerably.

I agree TESO WvW isn’t as good compared to the ANET vision and hype pre-launch/launch+1, but it’s been 2 years now and WvW here has gotten worse, stale and is nothing more than a blobfest waiting to happen.. if that’s your idea of fun then all power to you… ooh wait they did put that karma train map in EotM.. that worked!

Personally I think they have simply run out of creative juices, lack the resources to improve the gameplay functionality but above all they simply don’t care cos the bean counters say it doesn’t bring in the beans.

There 15 days ago last comment from a redcoat on this god awful issue.. and its gotten worse again….
Just like every other CDI or red post asking for info etc.. swept under the carpet and forgotten.. but hey I guess your graphs are looking colourful.

Maybe they will make it so an openworld event spawns.. you have to get the community to let the event fail in order to spawn a giant hoop for you to jump thro in order to spawn another event which then opens up SAB portal.. unless it bugs of course.. or the community don’t feel like failing it and just kill/destroy or defend said event requirements… simples, so simples in fact its already in game at a MAW or ARAH event near you.. ..

Bye Bye Teq…

New schedule is a mess imo.. sure do things to kill champ trains and the like but whoever dreamt up this debacle of a schedule obviously has a lot of free time on their hands or only requires a coke, a pizza and a couple of hours sleep before re-logging.

This rotation has made content way to restrictive and add to that with your mega server rollout once maps fill up getting your organized events together will become an unholy mess…. its already hard enough for organised events to happen, but with players rooted en mass by a megaserver event guilds and alliances will simply give up.. which I guess is what you want hence the new guild event spawn hoping they will come up with the shortfall.. except larger guilds aren’t going to want to waste their merit cap knowing that their own events will still run the risk of a large majority of their players being excluded due to map caps.
Add in the fact that alliances made up of smaller guilds/community groups are already hard pushed to be able to organise worthwhile events for their servers now run the risk of having to work 24/7 just to be able to afford the merits and influence for a total free for all afk’er heavy event to take place on your megaserver.

Does anyone actually think these things through back at base.. you have had 2 years to go through teething issues with the game, but every patch you never fail to amaze me just how poorly thought out most of your updates are whether it be balancing classes, skills, builds, mobs, bosses, maps, dungeons.. and WvW (laughs).

Sure this post might sound harsh and to be honest its meant to be, but all I see is Anet striving relentlessly to alienate and exclude large portions of its player base every single time you do something.. you already shafted small guilds now larger guilds will be hit in the face as well now.

Sigh.. all is vain, ESO im coming!

one skill, 2 skill 3 skill four.. wtf nothing works anymore
Fear not the voices from yonder speak for the OP warriors cometh along with the sneaks…
Ah but now there is a foe even they cannot beat
enter the unknown attackers to reek havoc in our keeps

No worries I am a Mesmer with clones as my shield
Ooh heck they still bugged and don’t take the field
No worries i’ll just blink into a tower and hide
then wait patiently till Anet a fix they decide
But until then C.Devon, if you see me by chance
Come give a /hug
not infract for having this merry dance