Guild Wars 2

I hope its just for China so they have a chance to get the stuff

Hope Anet will clarify if they will carry over to non beta characters

Gaile Gray.6029:

Dinks.2478:

I don’t know, but it would be nice if they would stop harassing me to set up the SMS authenticator every time I try to load the game.

It’s every fifth time. The team will review that frequency in the future, but for now we’ll leave it there, given the proven security advantages of authentication.

Its very annoying if you have 30 accounts like me. I realize there are not many people with this many accounts, but I imagine trying to force this security option on people will make them feel stressed instead of happy.

Moira Shalaar.5620:

Dinks.2478:

Okay kid, you’re done. The minute you said that people are getting viruses and stuff from no fault of their own your credibility was shot. Stay off of shady sites and you have no issue.

Ten years ago this was mostly true. These days this is no longer the case.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/hacking-team-leak-releases-potent-flash-0day-into-the-wild/

The above linked article is simply a case in point, and this comes up with regularity every couple of months now. I used to work IT professionally and specialized in dealing with malware outbreaks on corporate networks. Even then “shady sites” were by no means the only vector for being compromised. Things have only gotten more difficult from a security standpoint since then.

I commend your dedication and attentiveness to your own personal electronic security. However there will always be a tradeoff between convenience and safety with greater levels of security only coming at the sacrifice of convenience. You are unhappy about being inconvenienced and that is understandable. From a business standpoint ANET is required to look at a much larger picture in balancing the tradeoff between the two, and they have chosen to land on the side of greater security at the expense of a measure of user convenience (warnings) and privacy (sharing phone number). While you may deplore ANET’s decision, I would suggest that you familiarize yourself with the current state of affairs with malware, if nothing else so that you can make educated and informed decisions on how to keep up your already high standards of personal security.

It is still true. If you have plugins like Flash and Java installed it is your own fault if you get a virus. Both are obsolete in the age of Html5.
Furthermore smart people have addons such as Noscript and AdBlock Plus (set to no exceptions) installed for additional security…

mtpelion.4562:

Branden Gee.2150:

So, essentially what you are asking for is a way to have options like “Receive Whispers”:

• From All
• From Friends and Guild Members
• From Friends
• None

This seems like a reasonable feature request.
If Player A is on Player B’s friends list, but Player B isn’t on Player A’s friends list, how does that interaction work out?

Would this also extend out to things like mail?

(Please note this does not mean that this will happen, won’t happen, is planned to happen, and or not planned to happen)

Friend Listing should have been mutual from the start. If I send a friend request to you, you should be prompted to accept, decline, or block me.

No, I think the follower list system is good. I dont mind if 100s of people are stalking me.
And I prefer it to stay this way, I dont want to add everyone on my follower list to friend list, but its helpful to them if they can see when I am online to contact me.

Miss Lana.5276:

Malediktus.9250:

I dont think the ocassional gold seller whispers are worth the dev time to implement this.

Occasional? Did you see the first post? Read it, and check out the picture.

That is NOT “occasional”.

I have this too, but it happens in short bursts and then is done again for some days. So not much of an issue

I dont think the ocassional gold seller whispers are worth the dev time to implement this.

Its hopeless. A friend had a GWAMM account banned for botting chests in GW1. The only thing they did for him was removing the account link (so he can get a new gw1 account for the HoM rewards) after weeks of tickets.

Just merge the empty servers instead of ruining high (full servers are still very low compared to 2 years ago) population WvW servers.

So I bought 0.0006% of all GW2 copies :O

Aenaos.8160:

I don’t see where the problem is.
As long as you are playing WvW you are getting closer to
achieving those achievements.
It’s just a matter of how you see it.
A glass of water can be half full or half empty.
I my self,keep a positive attitude.
Every time I kill a Doly ,I think ‘One more down,countless more to go.’
But one more down is better than one less down.

I dont have positive attitudes. I follow a more realistic view: things start dieing the moment they are created/born. There is no point to achievements which take longer than the average lifetime of a MMO

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Worse decision ever. I remember a comment from the designer of the fountain some years ago. His comment was made after the fountain was first destroyed. I cannot find the exact words, but he stated it took a huge amount of time and effort to make the fountain work properly and how he really hoped it wasn’t all for nothing.

I’ll leave it at that.

I remember that. He said it took over 100 hours of his free time to make it. It is a shame to get rid of one of the most detailed structures of the game

Julie Yann.5379:

Orpheal.8263:

This was basically his answer in short lines of what I can remember what he said exactly:

• WvW Achievements will get fixed somewhen in the future, but he wasn’t naturally able to tell exactly when, because WvW achievements are currently a big problem for them.
• They are such a big problem, that he basically described the situation, that they are at the moment at a point, where they are “pointless” of how to solve the situation, because fixing all the other Achievements for WvW isn’t by far so easy, like changing those 2 other WvW Achievements, that have been cut down by required numbers.

• The reason for this is, so have I understood it is, its hard to make a decision to set up those new thresholds, because whatever new threshold they choose, there will be always people, which have then already much more points in certain achievements, and that would cause for the system a big problem, because then you would have for all these accounts, that are suddenly way higher than the new point threshold for the Achievements “false/wrong datas” in the system, that would cause Bugs and in the worst scenario could cause the data to be LOST

Reads: We could have easily fixed this 3 years ago but we were too busy not giving a kitten. Now that the problem has been ignored for so long it has grown too big for us to give a kitten. Maybe if we ignore it long enough there will be nobody left to give a kitten and then the problem will resolve itself.

I think a lot of people who care left already considering the WvW population seems to be dwindling on most servers

Ashen.2907:

Malediktus.9250:

You should look up the meaning and origin of the word prestige. It comes from the latin word for illusion and delusion..

You should look up the meaning of the word, “Latin.” It is not synonymous with, “English,” the language we are using here on these forums. A word’s meaning in another language is not necessarily relevant if the English usage of the word is different. For example sinister does not mean left handed in English.

But a lot of words got imported from latin. It is not my fault if some ignorant people changed the meaning and other people adobted the new meaning out of even more ignorance.

Exactly, this method only helps if you are naive and fall for every phising attempt people try. As soon as it gets more sophisticated it would not help much. But considering the amount of effort involved I doubt anyone would do that to gain access to a single GW2 account, so I might as well stay with my email verification on my main account + no verification on my alt accounts.

ArchonWing.9480:

1 PM on a summer weekend? What makes you think people are playing games to begin with at that time?

I dunno, I’m sure I have better stuff to do than gaming usually.

Is this question for real? There is more than ’merica.

Using WinAuth basically removes all the advantage you gain from SMS authentification again. If you get keylogged they might as well copy your winauth ini files and then have all the information required to generate the number for your account.

Easy fix if some servers are too empty. Merge them.
Better solution than punishing the top servers for better community management.

Not the first time ideas from Anet kill whole server communities

It will definitely take more than a week of loosing to get SFR away from full if servers like Riverside are marked as full. I wouldnt be suprised if all people who join WvW just to do their daily or visit a badge merchant for the skins or gift of battle get counted towards being active WvW playerbase.

Mantulis.4153:

As now I see, sfr is at 20k points, while deso 35k and fsp over 40k… makes me wonder what really happened.

People quitting/taking breaks left and right because nothing interesting is going on in WvW. Some people transfer away because of the usual reasons. People cannot replace them because server is marked as full. People who were on “vacatation” to other servers are unable to return. Being marked as full for the time being is basically a death sentence for a WvW server.
In the old system at least people could replace people who transfered away if it was marked as full, because the server went from “Full” to “Very High”.
If even a dead server like Riverside is marked as full, I have little hope that SFR turns “Very High” before leaving the top 10.

I am already protecting myself with a strong randomly generated passwords. Different for each account and email. And I dont care if a ticket costs them money if against all odds something happens anyway, after all I give them money buy buying plenty of accounts and gems. They just cant expect us to keep paying for everything and only give us automated services in return

It seems like its working again

Considering the main source for this shield and Karka were from gemshop sales, I would be very suprised if they would make them available for Karma. It would make them from the most rare stuff to the most common stuff because people like me have 10m++ karma on their hands.
Also I wont shed any tears, I am more of an angry/vengeful person. If I dont like what Anet is doing I will simply stop spending a 4 digit amount per year on this game.

Yes that picasso picture looks like junk to me. I think art is dead ever since expressionism was invented. Art went downhill ever since then.

You didnt understand it just like lordkrall. If we pay Anet should let us transfer to any server we want. Even the ones they deem full by their arbitray ideas. I dont know any server which is even remotely full compared to a year or two ago.

maddoctor.2738:

Malediktus.9250:

maddoctor.2738:

Malediktus.9250:

4500g is not out of reach, that is the cost of buying two cheap legendaries

Yeah but you can forge those legendary weapons using your own resources. Can’t compare a single skin with a legendary.

And legendaries are only valuable because they need a massive amount of resources. I would not mind if the shield would cost as much as Eternity to craft if that is your suggestion.

The shield isn’t the same because it never required a massive amount of resources. Going from a low amount of requirements to a massive amount is unreasonable.

It never was craftable so if it would become one it should become harder than a legendary to make. It always was behind by a large RNG wall. Either from Black lion chests or the Halloween 2012 mini dungeon or the raffle. All 3 had a very low chance to get them. Making it suddenly easy to get just because a few people want it badly would be a silly idea.

maddoctor.2738:

Malediktus.9250:

4500g is not out of reach, that is the cost of buying two cheap legendaries

Yeah but you can forge those legendary weapons using your own resources. Can’t compare a single skin with a legendary.

And legendaries are only valuable because they need a massive amount of resources. I would not mind if the shield would cost as much as Eternity to craft if that is your suggestion.

You should look up the meaning and origin of the word prestige. It comes from the latin word for illusion and delusion. So calling this shield prestige is fitting. Prestige does not come exclusively from skill. It can come from anything you want.

4500g is not out of reach, that is the cost of buying two cheap legendaries

briggah.7910:

less than 40 people in map? not dead

30+ on a tag? not dead

You guys should check out lower tiers if you think numbers like that is considered dead

I’ll give you an example of last week on my server

less than 10 people on the map. outnumbered buff at prime time. 5 people on tag

if there arent queues on all 4 maps during primetime it is dead in my book

Tongku.5326:

Malediktus.9250:

for 22,50 people have to work around 3 hours where I live, that is a lot for an automatic service
also it does not matter if people bought the gems with gold, after all someone sold the gems for gold after they bought them with real money.
oh wait why am I even discussing with a white knight, its wasted time and effort

It matters a great deal. I personally think the transfer costs in this game are a complete joke. kitten you can farm it in silverwastes in like 4-6 hours if you’re lucky, 6-8 hours if unlucky or have ultra low MF. With this kinda time investment you can go server hopping once a week with ease even if you are a casual player.

This in itself is wrong and GREATLY contributed to server stacking, guild buying etc. No one should be able to buy guilds, ever for any reason, period. Each and every individual player should be responsible and have a pause at the word “transfer” which is not the case currently.

I buy gems with real money so I dont care about how much gold it costs to buy the gems with gold. Blame Anet that there is not enough good stuff in the gemstore, then the gems would cost more gold.

2 hours later and still not working

Cannot log in anymore (from Germany). If I manage to login there are infinite loading screens or it disconnects me again after character selection.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

And authenticators for GW2 learn the range of non-static IP addresses pretty quickly. It’s not the first time that’s ever been addressed.

Does not change anything about me not being interested in this additional security offer.
By the way learning adress ranges is a security risk, because over time it will white list all IPs from your ISP and if it is a large ISP it includes a lot of people

Some people have IPs that change every day + at every router reboot. Static IPs are somewhat rare in europe. I went through several ISPs so far and none of them offered a static IP without paying a premium.

You dont need to at all. 29 of my accounts dont even have email verification. Only my main account has that one.

Unless Anet pays 1g per day for having this authentification activated I dont think it is worth the extra time it takes to log in. Even with WinAuth.

This whole limit is way too small. I say 5000g should be the bare minimum if there has to be a limit.

Kruczek.3865:

Zera Allimatti.2541:

One-time awards like this are terrible for the majority of players. I hope ArenaNet never creates more one-tidme content like that. What I recommend is making an epic scavrnger hunt where players go out into the game world and do stuff to earn said skin.

I don’t agree with that. Imo it’s awesome when there are some extremely rare items in game and their amount is finite. I have Mini Karka and i love this item – mainly because it’s pretty rare. If there would be 1000 crows(black winged skinny thief human females) with Karkas in DR i would sell it instantly. Rarity of items makes you want them.

When Grinning Shield was relatively cheap(i had one but sold it :S) noone cared, it was just another skin. Now when it’s price is 4000+ k gold and the only way to obtain it is to pay that much – everyone(my friends and guildies) talks about this item and how badly they want it.

This man gets it.

I love my shield and Karka because they are rare and not because I like their look.

yanniell.1236:

I don’t believe in that, lol. A code that can’t handle a “if X > new threshold then X == new threshold”

lol.

One could get the impression that they had a caveman do the coding for WvW achievements

I dont notice any difference with the new drivers, work as usual.

Dhuums Scythe would be nice, but what weapon class would it be if we have no scythes? Staff maybe?

That is why I am posting here, to get this changed

I never said they should remove the cost. I said they should let us transfer to servers if Anet deems them full in their completly arbitrary measure.

for 22,50 people have to work around 3 hours where I live, that is a lot for an automatic service
also it does not matter if people bought the gems with gold, after all someone sold the gems for gold after they bought them with real money.
oh wait why am I even discussing with a white knight, its wasted time and effort

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

You can associate several accounts with one phone number, and it is quite easy to set up authenticator, and then remove it. Merely enter the code twice.

You might consider spending the time to add and remove it, if the one click bothers you so.

Good luck.

Already tried adding and removing it. As soon as you remove it again, the reminders come back. And no I dont want the authentificator at all. I feel like my computer is save enough to be unable to steal my passwords without unreasonable amounts of effort.
In my whole gaming “career” I never have been “hacked” and I am confident that it will stay that way.

Aro.8275:

Wow they reduced it that much? Was thinking of getting one if it came back.
Well, at least it’s not an Infinite Continue Coin since there’s been use of it up ’til now.

The Candy Corn Gobbler is Infinite Continue Coin 2.0

Kaos.9162:

There are a fair number of people who have Ultimate Dominator, some through legitimate play, some through farming in OS. Far as I know, those are the only ones anyone has. I doubt anyone will ever get the current yakslapper, legitimate or no.

Yes Ultimate Dominator is the only “doable” WvW achievement. But it is getting harder and harder as the WvW population is dwindling and zerg fights often end in most people running away :/

I still stand by my point that the world population changes were over the top. How can servers I considered dead a year ago be full now when the population has only gone downhill? Even on SFR I do not notice anything about being full.
And if people want to stack on one server and endure long queues they should be allowed to. After all they pay a huge amount of money for an automatic service.

I am glad I did not buy one. This change seems outrageous.