Guild Wars 2

When you are requested to change your toon name, trying to be creative using the same name is not a good idea. Seriously, did you really think the word “Two” was the reason they asked you to change your name? I am not sure from your post if you where suspended for your name or swearing as it’s a little unclear, but either one will get you a suspension, and trying to bypass the rename request multiple times with “creative” spelling will lose you your account. There is a filter, but it is NOT a license to swear, this has been said many times by support. There is also an ignore, but again, that is irrelevant. When you purchased the game, you agreed to the TOS which basically says keep it clean. If you take the time to type out profanity, take a little more time to think before you hit the enter key. It looks like you are heading down the road to a permanent ban of your account if you do not change your ways.
BTW, there is no use in asking for a lesser suspension. If the suspension was deserved, which you admit yourself, then you simply need to wait it out.

I used to play PvP in many games. I don’t any more. I am just to old to deal with the drama. I play games to relax and have fun not to listen to some brat rage because he thinks the more foul language he can fit in to a 30 second slot the bigger he is.
Just go look in the account forums at the players who say it’s PvP, they should be able to say whatever they want to whoever they want. I liked the Guild Halls in GW1 where we could battle against friends. I got tired of going in to regular PvP and being called a cheater because I was an ele and was using rit spells, or took another player down too fast so I must have been hacking. PvP generally brings out the worst in players and after nearly 25 years of dealing with it, I have no reason to ever go back.

william dj.6953:

imo the only reason some ppl want them to be removed is because they are mad for not getting points for something they didn’t do. and jealous of those who did the work and earned them.

Not even close. Most of the people who want them removed (and most of us are just speaking of the PvE boards) are the ones who got the rewards. We are just sick and tired of the belly aching cry babies who think the PvE boards are competitive, and have been raging how “all the GW1 players are a bunch of greedy low lives” because we got 500 measly points that they did not. Supposedly we ruined their lives because they went down in the leader boards because we demanded those 500 points(which no one did).

justkoh.4073:

Gaile Gray.6028:

It is true that we cannot offer to split accounts, or to move characters between accounts. The character data is so intertwined with the game code that separating the characters and moving them is simply impossible. (And if it was possible, then yep, the HoM would only tie to one account, not three.)

Quite honestly, I do not think this is something that we will be able to offer in the future, although devs have surprised me in the past and what we thought was un-doable becomes possible. But in the short term, however, as much as we would like to help with this — particularly because you’ve been such an amazingly supportive player! — we just can’t do it.

Hi Gaile, for tokens like Laurels and such time gated crafting material (I believe things are headed in that direction), could A-net not think of some way to be less unfriendly to folks with multiple alts? The game itself seems so alt friendly (shared achievements etc) this feels so inconsistent.

Using the OP’s case, I understand that you don’t want someone with 43 characters to get the crafting material or token 43 times faster than someone with only 1. Yet, the converse is those with multiple characters have to wait n (where “n” is the number of characters I have; 43 in the OP’s case) times longer than everyone else. Its quite enough to make me despair about arming all my characters with end-game equipment someday (I have 10 lv80s, going to be 12 at your next character slot sale).

Material like Charged Quartz crystals is already account bound and cannot be sold. However, one a day is too slow if it were a material for end-game equipment for multiple characters; especially if the recipe required multiples for a single part.

How about making it Soulbound? The problem in this case would be the multiples-of-43 stacks of souldbound material but while this policy is in its infancy, I’m sure the developers can think of some way to take that into account and implement a fix (for example a “personal soulbound material page” for each character). It would be much more alt-friendly.

(PS. I realize making the time-gated material soulbound would mean every character would have to be a master crafter in order to process those material so obviously some other changes would need to take place at the same time. Oh well, I’m no game developer but nonetheless, I hope something can be done so OP and I will not have to wait 43x and 12x, respectively, longer than normal to arm our characters)

Because of players creating alts just to farm materials and not to actual play them, the only solution that would work IMHO, would be to make the time gated materials soul bond to the toon that aquires them. Of course this will also make many players unhappy…

kronos.1023:

THIS IS MAJOR BS all because your sorry employer got mad he lost in pvp what an kitten he is

They do not suspend accounts because you beat an employee in the game.
Making wild accusations like that will not help in an appeal at all.

StugLyfe.2134:

This name is very close to Female genitals in Tagolog, I would assume that’s what got it banned.

Your assumption is probably wrong as it’s far closer to a very common swear word. Just say it out load.

Natedeegreat.1390:

Rajani Isa.6294:

When you say you have email authorization set up – you don’t have it set to remember your home IP address?

Actually I do, but again neither my cousin or friend knows my password. To the best of my knowledge.

That may be the problem. Could you have had your account set to remember your login and password? If it was your account on your computer, even if it was not you, support will still hold you responsible. All you can do at this point is wait for Gaile to look at your ticket.

What others may or may not have said to provoke you is irrelevant. If someone provokes you with foul language, you report them and if warranted they will be suspended. If you respond in kind, you will also be suspended if they report you as well.
The excuse “they started it” does not work, you should have learned that lesson as a child.

You need to face the fact your “friend” is lying to you. Support does not log on to players accounts and remove items, then change their passwords. That is just total nonsense.

Curuglas.1847:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Again, your assumptions are completely wrong.

You just don’t seem to understand, do you?

Yakslapper: 1 000 000 dolyaks
Try for an hour to kill on average 1 dolyak every 2 minutes , meaning 30 dolyaks in an hour. To get the Yakslapper you’d have to go on killing dolyaks for about 33 333 hours. No time being away, all active playing.
This equals to slightly over 11 years of active playing 8 hours per day – doing nothing but killing dolyaks

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

The time limited events could not be completed in a single event, you had to do several months of actual in game time in the event to complete the title, but you only had 2 days a year to do it.

This actually adds for only 2 days of 16 hours, resulting in 64 hours. Compared to the 33 333 hours this means an additional 0.2% of 56 AP – negligible.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Again, you are showing you are completely clueless when it comes to the titles in GW1.

Show me one player who actively played GW1 every single day for over 11 years (meaning he started playing in 2001/2002).
Then, if he achieved his HoM titles in this time, he actually did the same deed required for the Yakslapper – which is worth 56 AP. So if HoM is easier or faster, (i.e. can be accomplished by being away for even a short while, or can be accomplished by starting to play after 2002), then in comparison it could be worth less than those 56 AP, couldn’t it?

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Have you even considered reading the wiki a little so you have some at least idea what you are talking about?

I did not check what is required for GW1 titles, no. But the fact that some people actually do have the titles sort of implies that they did not have to actively play for 11+ years…

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Again, explain how you can complete a title that takes several months of “actual in game time, logged in to the game”, in 48 hours? If you can not explain this, then please stop posting as you are simply making a fool of yourself and wasting everyone’s time.

Indeed, you might explain this, since this is your claim and not one of mine.
My claim is that there is a long term achievement worth 56 AP in GW2 which takes about 33 333 hours of not just logged on time but active play without being away at all. Compared to this achievement HoM requires much less time. Thus HoM should also be worth less than the 56 AP.

But to be honest, I chose the first arbitrary long term (in this case WvW) achievement for comparison. The problem might just be with the Yakslapper (which I came to presume due to the math), or rather most WvW achievements – i.e. All We See, We Own:
Capture 100 000 keeps, which boils down to: walking up to a keep and capture it. Walking from keep to keep takes a few minutes, say 2-3 minutes, prying open outer and inner doors can be done in about another 2-3 minutes, killing the lord is another minute – all assuming you have siege weaponry and no one defends the keep. This makes at least 5-7 minutes per keep, which is rather optimistic on average long term. Assuming 6 minutes per keep lets you capture 10 keeps per hour (which would be a huge feat, btw). 100 000 keeps means 10 000 hours of active walking and capturing, without opposition, and with a trailing group of another server to retake the keeps in the same time you go capturing, so once the immunity buff is gone you can get in and do your capturing again. Those 10 000 hours means more then 3 years of 8 hours every day all year long running in circles capturing keep after keep. And, those 10 000 hours are worth 56 AP, too.

Sadly, there are no other long term achievements available for comparison in GW2 but the WvW ones – and most probably the flaw is there. I just pointed out that the long term achievements (of which GW1 had plenty I concluded) in GW2 are worth much less for much more actual work than the HoM – and if you actually do know what kind of work this was, then you might understand the issue.

On the other hand, points awarded for living story and such, are much too high in comparison to the long term achievements – so maybe Anet should rework the entire achievement point system – and get a competitive PvE system working which includes only GW2 content.

I give up. You have no interest in anything but your opinion and refuse to even try to understand as you admit yourself you have never even looked at the titles. Players like you will never be happy, and your too stubborn and pig headed to see anything but what you want to see. You will never be happy no matter what is done, so there is no sense in even trying to explain as you are incapable of even the most basic understanding. I am not eve going to bother opening this topic again as it is senseless, the points are distributed, it’s over, it’s done, get used to it.

Support has stated in the past that this is not possible, characters cannot be moved from one account to another.

Viktor.7389:

I have just recently been hacked and recovered my account and changed the password and am requesting an account rollback by 4 days idk how exactly to request this but this seemed like the place to do it

You need to contact support, not on the forums.

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9274/session/L3RpbWUvMTM3NDI3MDkwNS9zaWQvNU03TFNEdmw%3D

If you believe your name does not violate the TOS, open a support ticket and ask for it to be reviewed. There are many players who have had their suspensions overturned.
After 3 days if you have not received an answer, you can post your ticket number in the tickets for review sticky at the top of this forum.

Curuglas.1847:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

BTW, can you explain with your magical math skills, how a player could find a way to work on achievements when the very event that you needed to get the achievement was gone until the next year?

My assumption to complete the long term achievements is based on a dedicated active daily play time of 8 hours every day of the year. This should result in being no time left to “miss” any time framed achievements.

Since the GW1 achievements are supposedly still all completable, they should be completable on at least one day of the year. Therefore it does not matter at all when any of those “achievements” can be completed.

I hope you understand the math used now, else you might want to ask your math teacher to explain these rather simple things – or maybe sue him to get your money back.

Again, your assumptions are completely wrong. The time limited events could not be completed in a single event, you had to do several months of actual in game time in the event to complete the title, but you only had 2 days a year to do it. Since this is impossible unless you had access to a time machine, you had to wait until the event came around each year to do a little bit more of it. Most players working on the titles would go (The filter blocks this?) “Away From Keyboard” in the events and stay logged on 24 hours during the events, and it still took them years to complete, so using your 8 hours, those players would still be working on those titles to this day. Again, you are showing you are completely clueless when it comes to the titles in GW1. Have you even considered reading the wiki a little so you have some at least idea what you are talking about?

Again, explain how you can complete a title that takes several months of “actual in game time, logged in to the game”, in 48 hours? If you can not explain this, then please stop posting as you are simply making a fool of yourself and wasting everyone’s time.

Curuglas.1847:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

It is just like the dailies, you pick and choose which achievements you want to do. There are achievements that could only be worked on for a few days a year, that could take decades to finish using your example of time played.

If this was true, then no one would have 50/50, since they obviously did not spend decades on this (EotN release 2007) – your argument is flawed.

Since my example took into account for players to play the game 8 hours per day, every day of the year, they surely would find the time it takes to get on those time limited achievements as well.

q.e.d.

Seriously? Are you just trying to play games are do you really have reading comprehension issues? There are NOT 50 achievements in total. There are well over a dozen achievements left AFTER you get 50/50. You can do any 50 of the achievements available to get 50/50, just like you can do any 5 of the 11 dailies to get 5/5. You really are completely clueless how the achievements in GW1 worked or for that fact, anything about them. Your lack of knowledge invalidates your whole argument. You can’t have a discussion if you do not even know the most basic facts about the subject. You can keep posting “your wrong” to every post every other player makes, but it only shows your lack of knowledge on the subject. And to be clear, technically there where no achievements in GW1 at all, they where titles. Some of the points you received in HoM where for owning specific weapons , miniatures or armor as well. Using the term “achievements” is only for the GW2 players who are unfamiliar with how GW1 worked.
Bottom line, you can belly ache all you want, anet is not going to make changes for a couple of players who are clueless and refuse to use common sense.
Try this, go stand in the middle of Lions Arch and ask in map chat how many players are upset about the leaderboard and the APs. Take screenshots of your responses and post them here.
BTW, can you explain with your magical math skills, how a player could find a way to work on achievements when the very event that you needed to get the achievement was gone until the next year? If you can somehow do that, I would like to know as there are a couple of the Halloween events that I would like to do today, but can’t seem to find them?

You need to open a ticket with support, posting in the forums will not get you an answer or any help.

Kombosaboo.7409:

JustTrogdor.7892:

Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the misfortune of your friend. However, it is against forum rules to “call-out” other players by using their game names and or username. You should probably remove all of the game and usernames from your post.

As this is your friend’s predicament your friend should be the one seeking support. You may want to encourage your friend to submit a support ticket to see if he can get any assistance with the problem.

https://en.support.guildwars2.com/
“Ask A Question”

I hope things get worked out.

Thank you.
I have edited the post and replaced the names with “XXXX”
if Anet asks for the names I will give them.

You need to go back and look again, you did not edit them all out.
You can have your friend open a ticket, but to be honest, he is not going to like the response he receives. No one hacked the game to gain kick rights, the guild leader simply made a mistake on either assigning rights to ranks, or giving the person a higher rank than he thought he did. This falls under “internal guild politics” and Anet will not get involved. Sad to say, your friend is not going to get his guild back unless the person who kicked him gives it back. If it’s any consolation, this has happened before so your friend is not the first person to lose his guild this way. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the best advice I can give is create a new guild and start over.

danielrjones.8759:

Volkon, I feel the WvW ap should be adjusted. As they are now they are pretty unfair to those you focus primarily on that part of the game. I don’t do much WvW and if and when they do adjust them. I will not complain. imho it would be the right thing to do. But yeah the kitten will really hit the fan when they do. And people will try to justify their time in pve is more important than WvW and Anet made yet another error.

I agree, the WvW/PvP numbers should be the main focus. They take at least some skill and mean much more then how many PvE achievements anyone has. And as a side note, I do not WvW or PvP at all, can’t stand it.

Curuglas.1847:

No, I did not enjoy playing GW1 (as opposed to GW2, which is a lot better in most aspects), so I do not know what kind of achievements there are. But I derived from previous postings in this thread that 50/50 HoM should take about a year or two of dedicated playing, and with dedicated I calculated 8 hours per day, every day, all year long. Even if HoM took 3 years, the comparison to a long term achievement in GW2 still is valid, so the range of HoM points compared to this one should be 5 to 10 achievement points – tops.

Like I said, you need to go and look at what achievements there where as you have no idea what you are talking about. I will give you a quick run down. There are more then 50 achievements, 50/50 simply means you got at least 50 of the 50 that are counted. It is just like the dailies, you pick and choose which achievements you want to do. There are achievements that could only be worked on for a few days a year, that could take decades to finish using your example of time played. I am not even going to respond to any of your posts in the future as it is clear you do not know what your are talking about and have no wish to find out. You seem to want to just pull made up numbers out of thin air without even looking first. So have fun, you can keep complaining all you want, but the 15 or so of you who are so upset are just wasting your time.
Myself? I am going to go play the game.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Yes, remove them. That are meaningless and do nothing but cause problems for a small minority of the players.

actually, i see it the other way around.

i.e.

“the small minority of players are attempting to cause problems for the majority of the players by making unreasonable demands etc.”

Good point, I concede to you my friend!

Yes, remove them. That are meaningless and do nothing but cause problems for a small minority of the players.

Curuglas.1847:

Quick Mouse.7635:

99% of the rewards from the gw1 HoM are garbage. In fact the majority of gw1 players we’re kitten ed off at how terrible the rewards were given the insane amount of work that was required to achieve them and what -we thought- we were getting. I think 500 Ap is totally fair.

I’d say the HoM rewards as long term achievements could be compared to long term GW2 achievements, like the WvW achievements: Yakslapper for example requires “only” to kill 1 000 000 dolyaks. Let’s do some math:
You do nothing but running around killing dolyaks. Given the respawn time and paths you’d have to run, you can – on average – get one dolyak every 2 or 3 minutes. This makes for about 20-30 dolyaks per hour.

Say, you play the game 8 hours per day for 365 days, then doing nothing else but killing dolyaks all day round it’d take you between 11 and 17 YEARS to complete this achievement alone, worth a total of 56 achievement points.

Compared to HoM, which takes maybe a year or two dedicated playing, this means HoM should be worth around 1/10 to 1/8 of 56 GW2 achievement points, which means a total of 5 to 7 AP total – a value everyone can relate to, I hope.

You need to go and look at some of the achievements in GW1 as obviously you have no clue what you are talking about.

Curuglas.1847:

Nabrok.9023:

If it means that much to you, you can still go to GW1 and complete them.

This “argument” is invalid, since it requires another game. I am playing GW2 here and all achievements should be obtainable through the GW2 interface only. Once you can go into the GW1 world through the GW2 interface and complete the HoM there, great – until then, keep HoM off the achievement points.

There have been many games apart from Guild Wars which had prequels and sequels. But none that I know of made anything from a previous game affect the following, just a few examples of games with multiple versions: Civilisation, Settlers, Neverwinter Nights, The Elder Scrolls, Diablo…
Therefore Guild Wards is already pretty unique here, handing some rewards in the sequel to the players of the prequel. Sadly the devs made a poor choice of reward this time by using the achievement points, but surely something they could easily fix: HoM points to 0, and send the real rewards by mail.

In your opinion the argument is invalid. You are entitled to your opinion, but others have a different opinion, including the game publisher, who out ranks you.

Curuglas.1847:

SvenskNavi.9378:

This is a pointless thread. Having 500 achievement points that you can’t get isn’t something to complain about. The rewards aren’t great enough for it to be a huge deal. so they might get one more weapon skin and some gold before you. Who cares!? No one is taking anything away from you.

You are missing the point more than once here.
1) You can get those points by playing another game, key issue: another game
2) The rewards could be handed via mail instead of achievement points, no one would complain
3) Quite a few care about the achievement points and the leaderboards, so considering this thread your question seems at least odd.
4) They are taking ranks they didn’t earn in GW2, so indeed they are taking something away.

You hit it right on the head, “the few” that care about the leader boards. That sums it up right there. Thank you for proving our point for us.

Curuglas.1847:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

The achievement leader board is for informational purposes only. It’s not competitive. If you think it is that’s your first mistake and frankly, your problem.

You are proven wrong by one detail there. If the leaderboards were not competitive, then there would not be a “rank” involved.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Nothing for the devs to discuss, working as intended, move along.

No, not to discuss, but rather to fix sooner rather than later…

Rank is simply a term, it means nothing, but nice try. Again, nothing to fix, it is as it was intended to be. Sorry you do not like it but that is the way it is if you do not like it, the only thing I can say is don’t play.

Nileth.9670:

Arenanet it took you less than an hour to merge my thread with this one, but getting your point of view on this wont happend or what?

And ill say it once again, reward the GW1 player aslong as it wont interfer with the achievment point leaderboard, i never said that they dont deserve to get rewarded…

It was merged by a mod because you chose to create a new thread on a subject that was already under discussion. Please learn how to read and use the forums before creating duplicate threads.
You are calling out the devs, which is not allowed under forum rules, again, please learn how to use the forums.
Thank you for your assistance in keeping these forums on track and un-cluttered.

As I said before, if you believe the leader board is supposed to be competitive, that is your problem, it has nothing to do with the devs or the GW1 players, it’s your problem so you need to deal with it yourself.

sinzer.4018:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

sinderhella.5680:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

TooBz.3065:

A better system would be to display the number of kicks initiated and confirmed within a period. That way, if you get with a group and it says that they kick 10 people a month, you know you shouldn’t even start.

Now that’s a good idea! A nice addition to stats visible to others, “number of players kicked from group”.

That would work in theory, however I often group with guildies that have a bad habit of logging out before leaving the group and then we have to kick them to make room for new members or reform the group.

Not hard at all, kicked while in a dungeon or in open area. If you have guildies who log out in the middle of a dungeon, then kick them from your guild by all means and don’t group up with them any more.

I don’t think that’s what they were saying, instead i got the impression that their guildies, after a run, log off before leaving the party which means they’re still in the party and if you’re going for a second run you need to kick them and invite someone else. Loads of people do this and it’s not a problem as they’re not leaving half way through an encounter

If that is what they meant, then it was a pretty meaningless comment. Removing someone from a group in the open world is hardly the same as kicking someone during a FoTM run or a dungeon.

sinderhella.5680:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

TooBz.3065:

A better system would be to display the number of kicks initiated and confirmed within a period. That way, if you get with a group and it says that they kick 10 people a month, you know you shouldn’t even start.

Now that’s a good idea! A nice addition to stats visible to others, “number of players kicked from group”.

That would work in theory, however I often group with guildies that have a bad habit of logging out before leaving the group and then we have to kick them to make room for new members or reform the group.

Not hard at all, kicked while in a dungeon or in open area. If you have guildies who log out in the middle of a dungeon, then kick them from your guild by all means and don’t group up with them any more.

Not this again, jeesh!
The achievement leader board is for informational purposes only. It’s not competitive. If you think it is that’s your first mistake and frankly, your problem.
Nothing for the devs to discuss, working as intended, move along.

apocalyps.7106:

tahlkora, mhenlo, livia , stefan, …and er… what’s her name, the monk that everybody blamed in pve gw 1 for deaths ? never, ever kicked me.
too bad a-net scrapped the idea of heroes/henchmen..

Alesia! Yes, they never kicked me as well, but I do remember lying dead in the Shiverpeaks with my henchmen’s bodies all around, only to see Alesia running back along the path in the middle of a Stone Summit group happy as a pig in you know what. I never trusted her after that, I think she had a thing for short guys.

Mkalafut.1273:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Things like this have been happening forever. I was threatened with being kicked if I did not give a gold to each of the other party members (all in the same guild) as a fee for their services. I left instead. I wish they had a system where you could vote on a players reputation so others could see who to avoid.

Now THAT is something that can get players banned. Next time you see that, screen shot it and send it to their support – don’t even waste time using the in-game report feature. Send it directly to them with Screenshots and they WILL be dealt with I assure you.

On subject, I don’t run into these problems because I don’t pug. If I’m in a guild group that ever requires 1 slot or something because it’s late and night, we never kick a person for a guildy just because a guildy logs on. That’s ridiculous.

I did report them, with screenshots. They where playing every day, never banned or suspended. That was the last pug I ever did. Now it’s guildies or nothing.

TooBz.3065:

A better system would be to display the number of kicks initiated and confirmed within a period. That way, if you get with a group and it says that they kick 10 people a month, you know you shouldn’t even start.

Now that’s a good idea! A nice addition to stats visible to others, “number of players kicked from group”.

Rajani Isa.6294:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

If you do not know for a fact the account is botting, you should NOT be reporting it for that..

Not so. If you think they’re botting, report them. Anet will check into it.

Standing in one place and not answering your messages is not botting, or even resembkitten tting in any way, shape or form. Reporting an account you “think” may have been hacked as a bot does not help, especially if you have an entire guild do it. It only creates multiple reports that have to be sorted through and take up supports time.

Things like this have been happening forever. I was threatened with being kicked if I did not give a gold to each of the other party members (all in the same guild) as a fee for their services. I left instead. I wish they had a system where you could vote on a players reputation so others could see who to avoid.

Finally, an event I can completely ignore.

That has been going on for a very long time. Please see the thread below.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Email-from-ArenaNet-Please-read-merged

Have you cleaned out your mailbox? Usually this will fix the issue and the items should be delivered.

zerotwo.4731:

A player offered to sell me 20 charged lodestones for 40 gold. In trade he didn’t bother sending the stones. I reported him but will I ever see my gold?

No, Your gold is gone forever as well as the load stones. The trading post is there for a reason, if you choose not to use it, you are on your own and support will not help you.
You can report them (which you already have) but that is pretty much the end of it.
Take this as a lesson learned, never trade outside the trading post.

I still play and have no problem finding other players to play with. If you buy the expansions you can also get many heroes, and honestly, the heroes usually do a much better job then most players except for a few of the dungeons. If you are interested in the lore, by all means play! It is still one of the best games ever made and far out shines GW2 and it’s other competition.

Smoke.8510:

It’s not my guild leaders account, its a friend thats in the guild. The Guild leader is trying to contact himvia Playstation Network, to tell him his account is hacked, we haven’t contacted him yet, and like Astral said we want to protect his account. We’re having all our guildies report his account for botting, but its not doing anything. Is there any way to have support look into this without waiting for the automated ban system?

Remove him from your guild. You are not going to get any of the loot from your bank back as it’s gone forever, so cut your loses now. If you do not know for a fact the account is botting, you should NOT be reporting it for that. Just standing in Fireheart and not responding to you is not botting behavior. Like Gaile said, your friend needs to contact support himself. You can’t report someone else’s account as hacked, only the original owner can do that. If you get in touch with your friend, he can then file a report. If the account is botting, since it has already been reported sooner or later it will be banned. There is nothing more you can do.

None of your business. ;-)

LHound.8964:

Gw1 players should proudly wear a armor skin, weapon skin or titles that in fact showed their dedication to Gw1.

My armor skin is from HOM.
My weapon skins are from HOM.
My title is from HOM.

I did my 50/50 and GWAMM simply so I could say I “finished” GW1 before moving on to GW2.

I could not care less about getting the points. What bothers me is the people complaining that we should not have gotten them.

In GW1, some of us purchased the collectors edition. We where given a special emote effect or “glowing hands” when we did emotes. We paid extra for this, a LOT extra, but we where supporting the game that we thought would take off and it did. New players came to the game when the collectors edition was no longer available and complained that it was not fair that those who purchased the collectors edition had glowing hands and they could not have them. There where rants and raves, very similar to this thread. Players demanding that glowing hands should be sold in the cash shop, etc.

When GW2 came out, the GW1 vets where given rewards for their loyalty which consisted of titles, pets and skins. The new players to GW2 complained that it was not fair that we got the special skins and pets, and they should be available from the gem shop for all, etc, etc.

Now anet decides to be nice to their old players and give them 500 points as a token of gratitude to their many years of playing their games. New GW2 players are complaining it’s not fair, etc, etc, etc. (Think Yul Brynner there)

THIS is why I am tired of it. When will it end? We have been dealing with the same complaints for going on 8 years now. Basically the same complaints, just different players. The GW1 vets have had to put up with our beloved game that we have been waiting for years to play, being converted to some twisted WoW clone to keep the new players happy. Nothing keeps them happy, nothing stops them from complaining.

Curuglas.1847:

They did not earn those points. They were just given to them for free. What they earned was a title, skins, and such. Have fun with it. And if the devs want to hand out some more stuff to those “veterans” – by all means, send them a fully loaded chest! But achievement points should only count for deeds done through the GW2 interface, hence please no HoM points.

That is only your opinion, and while you are entitled to it, apparently the devs do not agree with it. The GW1 vets have already had to deal with the new players complaining about the skins and the pets we where given. Now it’s another batch of players complaining about the points. We purchased EOTN and GW2 with the expectation that there would be rewards carried over from GW1. This was made very clear years ago. We have had to deal with new players complaining about nearly everything that made the game great to the point it does not even resemble the game we all loved. “Player housing”, “Mounts”, “open world PvP”, all the new players do is complain and want to turn GW2 in to some kind of twisted form of WoW. Enough is enough. Now is the time for the GW1 players to fight back. The leaderboards mean nothing, zilch, nada. No one but you cares where you are. They are NOT competitive, they are simply a listing of how much time has been spent in the game, nothing more.
ALL PvE content should be removed from the leaderboards. Every last achievement as none of them have any meaning. You killed 1000 drakes? and that takes skill how? We should all care why? Only WvW and PvP achievements should be listed as only they have even the slightest meaning at all.

To all the players who think 500 points have ruined your life because you have dropped down a few spots an a meaningless list on the internet, get a life and stop acting like a 5 year old. No one cares, bragging about your spot on the leader boards only makes you look foolish.

I will gladly give the 500 points back and have my name blocked from ever appearing on the leader boards if it will just stop all the complaining and whining.

nahla.7138:

Sil.4560:

So remove the points from both. I’m drawing benefit from having daily points, and I’m fine with their removal.

I couldnt care less if the HoM points didn’t count towards the leaderboards. As I’m (mostly) sure MOST GW1 players wouldn’t care. Would be reasonable.

I would gladly have my name removed form the leader boards for all time if it made the players complaining happy. Honesty? I looked at them once when they where released to see what they looked like, have never looked again and probably never will. I have no idea where I am, and could not care less about them as they are completely meaningless. If they gave us an option to opt out of the leader boards, I would do it in a heart beat just to end all the silly, needless drama.

Shockwave.1230:

Let’s look at the numbers here. 50/50 HoM from Guild Wars 1 is 1 achievement chest.
Really? People are up in arms, because the fans who helped arenanet become as big as it and popular enough to get guild wars 2 made got 1 achievement chest?

I don’t understand how other people don’t understand loyalty.

People are overreacting now because of immediate selfish wants and not understanding the concept of giving back.

It’s 1 chest. 500 points out of 5000 is 10%. Out of 10000 it’s 5%. Over the life of the game the impact of 1 chest will continue to diminish.

Unfortunately it’s not the chest. Most of the players complaining the most have had their egos bruised because they lost their “bragging” rights by losing their position on the leader boards. They don’t seem to know that the leader boards are meaningless, and no one but them really cares. It does not show who the best players are, they simply show who has played the most. I find it very amusing that they put so much in to something so silly, and take great joy in screwing with them now because of it.

Sil.4560:

I’m happy with my three legendaries, multiple max geared characters, and extensive and enjoyable play experience

Really? It hardly seems like your happy with the game at all if you let the fact that some players got a measly 500 points have such a huge effect on you. And if you are going to try to claim it has not had a huge effect on your enjoyment of the game, then why are you still posting here, making such a huge deal of it then? It’s really rather sad.

Sil.4560:

It’s a different timeline.

Now who is stretching it? A different timeline? Sorry, not even close by any stretch of the imagination. GW2 is the same world and time line as GW1. The lore holds to this. The devs have said this. It’s a fact that your whining about is not going to change.

No one asked for the points, no one was making even a notice of them until the players who did not get them decided to act like spoiled brats.

You know what, we got the points! we got 500 points more then you! you do not have them and there is nothing you can do about it except spend real world money, buy GW1 and play through it. You can complain and rant all you want, but those are the facts and they are not going to change because you have had your feelings hurt. The mods really need to lock this thread now as it serves no useful purpose, what’s done is done.

Astral Projections.7320:

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

Astral, I think your confusing an IP with an IP range. An IP is usually assigned to a single computer while an IP range would be a group of computers. For example, say your ip address was 10.10.0.1, that would be the address assigned to your computer so if that address was banned, only you would be banned. If they where to ban the range, say 10.10.0.x, then it would ban all ips beginning with 10.10.0.1 thru 10.10.0.255. As others have said, ip banning is pretty useless as it’s very easy to change your IP with a few simple commands.

If I have an IP assigned to my computer, then why when they started the IP verification email did I have to verify that several were my address. And why were they various towns around me? The first verification was some town many miles away. I’m assuming because of this that they are using IP range rather than specific IPs since they kept changing to different IPs and to different sites around me.

Many ISPs reassign a new IP every time you reboot your computer. It’s a simple DHCP setting, do they give you a 24 hour lease, 48 hour, or reset on reconnect? Ip authentication using a range would be the absolute worst thing to do and no admin in their right mind would even consider it. As to different cities, it all depends on which of your ISPs servers you connect through at any given time. The location of the server would dictate where your location would be seen coming from as the server is actually what “owns” the IP, your just leasing it.

I had someone message me claiming I “stole” his name and wanted me to get a name change so he could get “his” name back. I simply blocked him.

Astral Projections.7320:

Saeri.4576:

Hey!

I realize I’m stealing someone’s precious time, but I’d just really like to know about this: this morning when I checked my e-mail I had four unauthorized login attempts from China. I realize someone has my password, and that I should change it, etc, but I was just wondering what happens to these IP’s: do they get banned?

I also received an e-mail from Facebook saying I was subscribed to a website called Guildwars2betakey, and that they now have a Facebook page and that they suggested I like that too. I don’t know if these two things are related, but it just seemed a little odd. There’s probably a bunch of these scams out there, I don’t know if Arenanet wants to know about them to actively shut it down, but just mentioning it just in case. (https://www.facebook.com/Guildwars2betakeygen)

Thanks!

I don’t think you can ban an IP because for one, the IPs are an area with many people in it. Also, when someone logs in, it isn’t the exact same IP each time.

I remember the first time I logged in and had an IP check. It said I was in some city miles away I had never heard of. If my IP was banned, would it ban everyone in it?

Astral, I think your confusing an IP with an IP range. An IP is usually assigned to a single computer while an IP range would be a group of computers. For example, say your ip address was 10.10.0.1, that would be the address assigned to your computer so if that address was banned, only you would be banned. If they where to ban the range, say 10.10.0.x, then it would ban all ips beginning with 10.10.0.1 thru 10.10.0.255. As others have said, ip banning is pretty useless as it’s very easy to change your IP with a few simple commands.