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If CoH intellectual property were to be bought, I vote ownership is transferred to you Zwill. You'd be perfect to head the company.

Yes. After playing GW1 for 6 years I'm fully aware about the 99.9% of accounts that bot and cheat are actually stolen accounts.

But, here is more info I found dated August 29, 2012, the day AFTER the game launches:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c...day_august_29/

This is a load of crap. Account hacking/theft has been rampant in Guild Wars 1 since I started playing in late 2006, or possibly before that. How many players from way back then are still going to be using the same exact computers they had, or if they are using the same computer, never ever find these "pre-existing trojan horses" when anti-virus software has changed and updated so much since? And what of all the players completely new to Guild Wars and have never played it until GW2 launched? I think they are lying and don't want to admit, which would be really bad PR, that their 'own' websites are being hacked. Why do you think they shut down the GW2 official forums? I doubt it's only because of the influx of players.

I remember them saying something a couple years or so ago during development that botting was going to be nearly impossible in GW2. What do they mean by "casual" botting? Bots that only do it an hour or 2 a day instead of non-stop 24/7?

I definitely can NOT trust ArenaNet or any other NC Soft game anymore, aside from CoH. Period.

Your account was most likely hacked. I've played Guild Wars 1, come October, on and off for 6 years and I'm quite familiar with NC Soft support for the game, and I imagine GW2 is the same. Support for GW2 may take longer since many many people are probably reporting accounts being hacked and stolen, reporting bugs in the game, etc.

#1)It always takes on average 3 days before you receive a response from a support ticket.
#2) Do not under any circumstances create more than a single support ticket for the same problem. If you have more information or would like to request an update on the situation you need to update the ticket you already created. ArenaNet has stated this many many times over the years. The reason is because it causes more work for the support staff having to find all your tickets and merge them when they are in the waiting line further down from your original ticket.

I already posted why I won't be buying Guild Wars 2 and it's mostly due to ArenaNet's lack of account security.

Here is my post: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...83#post4375983

Here is a source (in my post there) saying that ArenaNet has "admitted" there have been "some" account hacks with GW2 already: http://www.videogamer.com/pc/guild_w...igilant_3.html

And here on the official GW2 Wiki site, although it says nothing about accounts being hacked it gives a good impression that there is in fact a big problem with account security.

Game status updates from August 29-Sept. 3 http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game...ates/Archive_1
And the most recent status update http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates (Sept. 5, same exact info as what's in the archive for August 29-Sept. 3) No info other than the same exact message over and over with each update: Ways to protect your account, getting in touch with support, etc.

Edit: Official announcement from ArenaNet about GW2 dated August 29, the day AFTER the game officially launches:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c...day_august_29/

It may not be from the press. Even better. Straight from the source: ArenaNet themselves.

I remember something about them saying during the development of GW2 a couple years or so ago that GW2 was going to be nearly impossible to bot. So much for that.

Whoah. I'll try to sum it up:

Digital sales of GW2 were stopped because of the massive amount of players joining the game, the day AFTER thousands of accounts get banned for a rules violation. Is it possible the account bans were also to alleviate some of the pressure on the servers, and the reason they changed it to "give them a second chance" and switch to a 3 day ban instead was because server load was lightning up?

I know. It's a wild theory. But I never said that people were not exploiting the game. Merely pointing out that Anet was putting ALL the blame on the players and not even admitting that the bug was their fault to begin with.

Should they have banned people who clearly were taking advantage of it? Yes I believe so.

Did they admit they made a mistake and promise to be more careful so they didn't have to ban people again? Hell NO.

Edit: P.S. How can Anet "care" about their customers when GW1 account hacks and thefts, as well as rampant botting, still taken place and have been for many years? How can they care since, as I pointed out and they admitted to a small degree, GW2 accounts have been getting hacked since before the weekend beta started and they were doing the pre-sales?

LOL that made me think of a scene in my all time most favorite movie! (my signature is a quote from it)

Loanstar = CoH
Dark Helmet = NC Soft shutting CoH down.....at ludicrous speed. Watch to see what's gonna happen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk7VWcuVOf0

(Edit: And YES. We are going over NC Soft's "helmet" if we have to.)

BUT! A few comments past that:

LMAO you SHALL get your request granted come November 30, 2012 when the servers shut down for good. I just think it's funny you probably unknowingly posted this the same day it was announced that Paragon Studios was shut down by NC Soft and the game was being shut down for good.

Very bad idea, unless you want the players to leave in droves and kill the game quicker.

You have to remember, it will also make the RMT spammers VIP will full access to email and sending tells.

Do you think people will want to spend the last months getting a tell every 5 seconds "Hello--this is gday2012"? Or having their email fill up with spam so fast they aren't able to receive emails from friends they are communicating with?

I've heard that before the game went free-to-play, trial accounts originally had full chat and email privileges and people were being flooded with spam. That is why the chat and email restrictions were locked out to tier 2 premium players to avoid that behavior.

That's what *she* said.

Are you a NC Soft fanboy, or employee?

I do finally hate NC Soft for what it is and what they did to Paragon Studios finalized that feeling.

I'll explain why.

Come October 2006 I will have been playing Guild Wars 1 off and on for 6 years. Last year I finally had it. I had it with the massive amount of bots in PvP, particularly in the Jade Quarry as that is where I was spending most of my time. I had it with hearing all the time about player accounts being hacked and stolen. (Most of the 'bots', possibly all, in the game were set up on stolen accounts) Sick of the hacked/stolen accounts set up with spam bots advertising gold selling websites. I never got into the random arenas PvP because of the large amount of bots, but more so than the bots, players who syncronized their teams to get in together and assure themselves consecutive victories (The point of random arenas is that all players on both sides were suppose to be random, and according to GW1 ToS, this should have been considered 'match manipulation', a perma-ban offense but they did NOTHING about it). Thankfully to this day I've never had my account hacked or stolen.

When the date for the pre-purchase of GW2 was announced I was excited and hoping for something different and past problems (named above) taken care of. I was going to pre-purchase it so I could participate in the beta weekends since I've never beta tested an upcoming game. Until............I saw a few player reports on the official GW1 support forums that after linking their GW1 and GW2 accounts, their accounts were hacked and stolen. (So much for that not happening anymore, eh?) So I decided to stick with CoH and wait a few months to get GW2 until things settled down, the economy stabilized for the most part, major bugs that happened at launch were fixed, and they FINALLY did something about account security instead of putting the responsibility and blame on the PLAYERS.

But.........I've been reading recent reports about GW2. I will NOT be buying GW2 now. Not to spite NC Soft for what they did to Paragon Studios, that's only part of it. But because A-net doesn't give a damn about their players. Currently in GW1, as of about a week ago when I logged in and played a bit, bots are still in PvP and gold selling spam bots are still showing up in towns, on characters that have elite armor no less, i.e. stolen accounts. (In fact I reported 1 and support said the account was terminated).

Here is what I've been reading about for GW2:

Article dated Aug. 29, 2012 ( the day after official launch)
Subject: ArenaNet warned players to be vigilant with account security and ADMITTED they've had a lot of accounts hacked!
http://www.videogamer.com/pc/guild_w...igilant_3.html

Here on Sept. 1, 2012, and Sept. 3, the official GW2 wiki had an announcement about account security, working on support tickets from players who've been hacked, etc.: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game...mber_1.2C_2012
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game...mber_3.2C_2012 (Edit: info in the link was most recent game status update. New links added.)

And something funny and disturbing: The same day Paragon Studios is given the boot, Anet perma-bans a large number of GW2 accounts (3 days after launch) for exploiting a bug in the game. From reports I've seen in comments on MMORPG.com and other places, at least 3,000 accounts or more were banned. The cherry on top of the cake? Anet isn't even admitting they made a mistake in the game! They are going to be "nice" about it by unbanning accounts and giving players a 72 hour suspension instead. The stipulation for getting your account back? Admit that you violated the rules, promise to delete all in game currency and items you obtained through the bug in the game. And Anet warns "Once you have done so, we will lower your ban to 72 hours, and following your re-activation we will check your account to make sure that you have honored your commitment. If that commitment is not honored, we will re-terminate the account." The problem? Some players may not have realized they were exploiting a bug (that should have NEVER happened in the first place), and some players may have been banned by accident. For those banned by accident, if any and I'm sure there were at least a few, the players have to admit to doing wrong when they may not have even known.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/c...apons_exploit/

(some comments on MMORPG.com people were saying they are now paranoid that they may get their GW2 account perma-banned for an exploit they had no idea was even there)

And more: Because of the massive volume of players, GW2 digital sales have been halted for now so they can lighten the load on the servers. (you can still buy a retail boxed copy though) http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/0...f-guild-wars-2

This happened the day after all the account bans. Coincidence? Someone here has a conspiracy theory that does make some sense: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...1#post18231180

Now with my experience and what I've seen (never had my GW1 account perma-banned) but Anet's policy on bug exploits is 0 tollerence. It lies in the depths of the galaxy where the stars don't shine in ABSOLUTE 0 temperatures kinda policy and they NEVER EVER unban accounts for ANYONE, even players that plead with them that they had no idea they were violating the rules, and granted some of them probably didn't know. As per that person's conspiracy theory: is it possible the thousands of account bans, then the discontinuation of online sales, were both to lighten the server load for the massive amount of players logging in and playing? And the only reason they made the offer to unban accounts for an exploit was because they succeeded in their server load goals?

Sorry for the lengthy post, but in conclusion I don't trust NC Soft anymore. I've also read reports about items in the cash shop for Lineage II and Aion being INCREASED, possibly doubled. It sounds to me that those are the games they should have shut down, or at least 1 of them.

LMAO epic!

If store bought enhancements could be converted, it would most likely have been a bug that was fixed quickly. I never heard anything like that before until now. Sounds like someone's memory is faulty in this thread and a rumor is being started.

Time to end this discussion. Store bought enhancements never have been, and currently can't be, converted. Period. Think about it: if you *could* convert store bought enhancements, you could just buy the ones that cost the least amount of paragon points and convert it into ones that cost more paragon points (similar to how people will convert crummy crafted IO's in game into something they could get more inf for in the auction, though SBE's aren't tradeable). That's bad business as less of the more expensive sets wouldn't be sold if they could be converted.

I completed this mission about a week ago, but read the wiki first and knew what to expect. For me I was never mapserved but after defeating a group of enemies the game would hang for a second or 2. No big deal. Just do what is suggested on the wiki and use Laser Beam Eyes to pull a group to you and just be patient. From what I could tell you won't take any damage at all no matter how many enemies are attacking you and pretty much all of your special powers can 1-shot everything.

As far as I know the answer is no. If you have say a week left on your license and purchase a new license, you would lose that week and the time will be reset.

#1) You can purchase the enhancement tray increases. There are a total of 4 giving you 10 more slots each to carry enhancements for a total of 50. Though they are pricy at 1600 Paragon points each. You can find them in the shop under: Account services>Storage increase>Enhancement increase (1-4)

Gives you 1 tab on your enhancement tray per upgrade for a total of 50 slots. It ends up looking like this:



#2) There are a couple ways to check incarnate xp for your slots: Click Powers on the top left of your main power tray and then Incarnate Abilities on the top of that. You also get a badge for each slot you unlock. Click Collect>Badges>Accolades and put your mouse over the progress bar for the Incarnate slot badge and it tells you exactly how much xp you have and how much is needed to unlock it.

Yeah. I guess it counts the number you actually need and the number crafted toward that goal, in other words after getting the badge for 2000 it resets to how many crafted back to 0 and to get the next badge 1000 is actually needed. Makes sense I guess. So in the case of the screen shot, I actually have sold 2208?