Guild Wars 2

I was thinking something very similar to that as well. Another thought is that the combination username and password together is too long for the encoding method used to verify it (since they probably use a hash value or something similar to verify it), and there is some sort of overthrow exception that is causing it to halt early, causing it to not match up. We could come up with theories all day, but we can’t say for sure without looking at it. But the password is definitely in there, and definitely not readable by either game.

I’ve been wondering for a while before the release of GW2 on what exactly was the ultimate fate of our characters in GW1. I mean, considering the many things our characters have accomplished, ranging from leading armies, pushing back invasions, eradicating disease, overthrowing governments, exploring the far reaches of the world, killing deities/creating a new one, traveling (and conquering) realms beyond their own, and the almost near eradication of quite possibly multiple races, you would think that they would be considered one of the most influential figures in history.

And yet, I haven’t heard any mention. Even HOM no longer has any real reference to these myriad accomplishment beyond a ghost in a pool distributing implements of destruction (I was really hoping at least a plaque or something commemorating the many things we did in GW1). Perhaps I just haven’t found it yet? Anybody come across anything?

I like to think that my characters kept going, exploring lands far beyond the realms we explored in GW1, vanquishing the great threats that lie elsewhere. I also like to think that they eventually just left and continue to travel and fight their way through the mists. But that’s just me. What about you all out there?

Well, I based the 100 character length on the update in GW1 a while back that said they now allowed characters up to 100 characters in length. I figured if it were too long or had invalid characters, it wouldn’t let me, and if it truncated the password upon creation, it would not be letting me into the forums with it now. Unless of course it’s truncating it every time I enter it into the forum…

Well, if it’s doing that it’s some number other than 64 characters, tried it, didn’t work. With the blacklisting policy in effect, it would seem like a waste of a perfectly good 100 random characters. Besides, I like having a password that could probably double as an RSA key. Good luck to any keylogger in picking that mess up.

While I generally do not go overboard with my password security, after seeing the penny-arcade comic mentioning how Gabe’s account had been hacked (again), remembering my good friend’s hacked account experience in GW1 and then seeing this recent article about security, I decided to lock down this account with the strongest password I could possibly use: random 100 characters, upper, lower, numbers, symbols. I wasn’t even sure it would accept it, since it doesn’t say anwyhere exactly what is allowed or not, but it took it without a hitch. I’m very impressed by that.

But now I can’t log into GW2. Or GW1, for that matter. I can log into the forum, obviously, so clearly I’m not entering in the password wrong. I plan on logging a support ticket immediately, to make sure that this gets in front of the right people as soon as possible, but I figured I would post this as a cautionary tale to other people considering the same thing, and perhaps see if anybody else has suffered anything similar.

As a side note, this is all kind of ironic due to how I’ve been working on integrating web applications for the last couple weeks and seeing stuff like this. Work is just following me home, it seems.