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Probably the worst Customer Service of all-time
Myrdynn
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ticket open since last Friday, still no response what-so-ever, I thought this was supposed to be a AAA game, my ass. I got "Permabanned, hacked" after playing a grand total of 10 hrs in game, and although I was enjoying myself suprisingly, quite a bit, I am completely irritatted at the lack of customer service that Arenanet provides. It is completely unacceptable. FWIW I dont need to hear how oh its my fault for getting hacked crap either, I use a completely unique password for my email and every gaming account I have ever made. And quite frankly I dont care that I got hacked/banned for protective reasoning, all I care about is hearing 1 fricking reply from this horrible company. Hacking happens, not an issue. Zero response, HUGE ISSUE. And from the forums I am not the only one. It is quite a huge occurance.
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Oderint, dum metuant.
well since you appear to be proliferating your message all over the place Ill copy the same thing I posted to you originally:
"lol, this is such a myth. No big company has ever had great customer service. Its a matter of perspective, you get a good customer service exp its great! you get a bad one its horrilbe and everyone is getting screwed."
Don't worry though I would be pissed off as hell too. Its human nature.
You buy a car, its yours. But when it breaks down, the manufacturer doesnt pay your mechanic.
Same with GW2, you bought it, then everything else after that is your problem.
Customer support in this game is non-existant!
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http://en.support.guildwars2.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9212
We have now completed prioritized requests submitted prior to Sunday, September 2. If you have an older ticket for a hacked account or blocking login issue that has not been completed, that means it's not correctly prioritized. Submit a new ticket using the above instructions, and in the title write, "Blocking Login - Ticket submitted <date> - Ticket number xxxxxx-xxxxxx" (fill in the date and ticket number of your existing ticket), and we will prioritize your existing ticket.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates
oh that would be nice, I never saw that, my time is very limited, as a matter of fact I only get to play on tues/weds normally, I tried to log in last friday during the day to get all my patches done and make another char, only to find out I was banned. I didnt think it was that big of an issue, since I figured it would be fixed by tuesday so I could play.
Their support on the GW2 site is god awful hard to figure out if I followed the right steps to submit a ticket as well
I think this is the problem with using so many unconventional methods of communication to their users. Not many games use a Wiki page to update the community on what's going on. They really need to get their forums up and running so people are less likely to miss this stuff.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
FWIW, every MMO I have played doesnt only operate their customer service on a 9-5 Est M-F work schedule
I totally agree, definitely not the best customer service out there, no phone number to call, no ingame support, no forums, i mean come on... I haven't had an issue myself but I can sympathize.
Edit: I guess they added a tech support forums recently.
I tried to call them up to just chat, welcome them to the community and say, 'hello'.
They wouldn't answer and haven't returned any of my calls.
that is JUST rude!
SZ
+1
The problem is that their support is structured so that each ticket has to touch an agent. So, since currently they are dealing with massive volumes of support incidents - the agents are taking an extremely long time to get to each ticket (i.e. they are understaffed). When an agent DOES get to a ticket, in an attempt to clean out the queues quickly they are just copy/pasting canned/template responses.
I posted on Reddit outlining how Arena Net could resolve this problem - allowing them to still address FAQ questions, getting template responses back to customers within 1-2 hours, and freeing up agent time so they can actually focus on resolving issues instead of spamming canned responses.
Here's the post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/zcj2k/arenanet_tips_to_improve_your_support_operations/
I'll assume since the support agents watch Reddit, they are the ones downvoting my suggestion - as if Arena Net were to implement that process, support costs would decrease and they wouldn't need as many agents.
Yeah, most operate on pacific time
I have to agree with the op on this one. First I really like GW2. However the CS sucks! I have had an open ticket since Friday of early entry almost two weeks. I had two problems one big one one minor neither addressed. The big one had to do with not being able to confirm e-mail address to get into game. That was 48 hours of trying to get an answer. I did get a phone number to their headquarters but that was the worst totally automated and finally said submit a ticket. Well I was unable to because you needed to log into your account to do it but they locked my account due to the fact I could not verify my e-mail. When I did try to verify it said "success" access denied. I figured I would never get into the game it was a never ending circle. after missing almost two days of play. I am a college professor and I have trouble using Moodle for my online classes with Internet Explorer. So I tried logging in GW2 again instead I used Firefox to verify e-mail and it worked. I posted the solution here so others could get in. NCsoft posted that they had issues with IE however you had to log into your account to see their comment. Now I am back in game and having fun but I was close to quiting after 2 days of not being play. I left the ticket to see when they would respond that is over a week now. No live chat, no ticket answers, no phone support, you are on your own with GW2.
A great example of CS is Trion! 24/7 phone support. I never waited more then a minute and for me as a north american customer it is nice to have an actual american answering the phone. I have called them a few times over this year and always get the answer needed and a thank you for being a customer. NCsoft/arenanet could learn a thing or two from Trion. My rating for GW2 a 9.5 for game a 0 for customer support.
That is rather unfortunate.
Hope you get it straightened out soon. Have to admit I'm seeing quite a bit of rumblings about their CS. Honestly it seems to me they may be understaffed. Just my opinion...
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
I put in a ticket on the first Saturday of early access and it took until Friday to get a response. That response did not address this issue, only said they would look into it. I have not heard back from them since then.
It had nothing to do with a hacked account. It was about Deluxe Edition items.
The support system is cumbersome and inconvenient and while my issue is not exactly "high priority," what looks like it may very well be two weeks or more to "get around" to it is SLOW by any measure, even for a launch. Everyone here would say the same had it been another company running another game (deny it if you wish but we all know what the deal is here).
"Slow", "inconvenient", and "cumbersome" and "worst" are by no means synonymous, but this is an area that is not functioning efficiently and could use some attention from ANet IMO.
ETA:
Update: The issue was satisfactorally resolved on Thursday, September 6.
as i posted elsewhere - it has been poor but ANET is trying to improve
from sunday update
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_status_updates/Archive_1
We're aggressively ramping up our customer support team, with 28 new support representatives starting today and more coming online in the next few days, to provide the fast response times our customers expect.
from yesterdays (tuesday) interview
http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/09/04/arenanets-regina-buenaobra-on-guild-wars-2-reddit-and-communi/
Why were first-party sales of the game halted? Can we take that as a sign that the game is selling a little too well for comfort, given the game's current troubles, or does the team simply want to prevent new players from getting caught up in email delays on registration? How soon might we see sales resume?
Demand for Guild Wars 2 has been well beyond our expectations, and in order to maintain a playable and enjoyable game experience for all of our fans we made the decision to temporarily halt first-party sales while we scale up our capacity and customer support to meet this demand. From the very beginning, we have intended Guild Wars 2 to be a successful game in the long run. Slamming our servers with new players in the name of sales, adversely affecting the entirety of our playerbase, does not fit into that plan. Guild Wars 2 needs to always be an enjoyable, accessible game, and we will do everything within our means to do so.
EQ2 fan sites
well cool, I am still waiting, no email, no response nothing
Dunno
Worst Customer support Imo will have to go to PWI
Best would go to Turbine ( both ingame and offline support .. Had good experience with TSW ingame support as well )
I went directly to Guild Wars 2 support site and found the solution to your problem in less than a minute.
1. Go to support site
2. Search for "hacked account"
3. Read
4. Done
Number of cheats and exploiters I reported in war that were still at months later
That's what you get with B2P.
NCSoft boasted that they ran the support on GW2 for 80% less cost than their subscription based games like L2. No GMs, no phone support and a trimmed down email support crew.