Guild Wars 2

@Richard – Let us put this into a likely scenario perspective. A group of casual players is leveling up their characters together. One decides to move to another server to see if a bug is not affecting the other server. The next server has the same problem, so she tries a second server. Luckily, the second server transfered to has no bug. What do you think she and her friends are going to do? Is she going to say nothing to her friends? Will she secretly accomplish the task, then want to return to the bugged server? No. All the friends will transfer to the non-bugged server to accomplish the task.

Your issue is a non-issue. Especially if players do not have loyalty to a specific server due to WvW anyways.

@Richard – We are talking about a game that persists. You really think anyone should be worried about infringing on the play time of a person trying to burn through the game in one week? WvW is an investment of more than a week’s play time. Using server xfer to side step a bug fix is not priority over WvW critical issues. Yes, the week wait to return to a server must stand.

@Kyte – That would be a solution, but I WvW is the sole purpose of end game for many people. I suppose returning a penalty like that would be a choice the player makes, but preventing a player from participating in the primary activity is not acceptable. Thank you for letting us see what the alternative is, though.

@ Scalyon – I have not finished world completion. Are the PvP maps mandatory for world completion?

Putting a delay of one week to transfer back to a server previously transfered from would have solved everything. If people choose to transfer to support the other side in a week long conflict, or to bolster a different three server conflict, they would not be able to repeatedly shift the power base at precarious times. I think the recent 24h cool-down solution and this solution will prohibit the biggest problem with the privilege of server swapping.

HoD faced a difficult straight this last weekend mostly due to people swapping in and out, jamming up the cues and literally not participating in the actual action. You know, loyalty means alot. Sunday through Tuesday I repeated in chat that “Stormbluff was recruiting. Become an instant winner. Xfer now.” We did a lot better once the ship jumpers and saboteurs left.

I am having the same issue. I started the email authentication process in beta, but never finished it. I did not choose to have in after launch. However, after the last security patch, I have had to verify login from the same IP address every time I enter Guild Wars 2. I do not want this service.

To express some personal feeling about this: I am very bothered when things like this disrupt the play of the majority of upstanding players, just because a minority chooses to give their account information out (to gold sellers, family, friends, etc.) while faking like somehow their account was hacked. I know hacking is trackable on servers. Why accept their bogus claims? Why not cancel their accounts instead, or let them face the trouble they made for themselves? Maybe they will learn with their second $60. Seriously, this is wrong business.