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now i know why the number of player are so low in guild wars!
drbaltazar
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i tried to login last night after a break since a little bit after eye of the north
lol!login i got all the guild wars release i even baught the game of the year for the original since i like the ingame item
but they have a new feature you need one name of your in game char
since i never needed that before i m screwed cant access that trash can
supplied all info never changed e-mail but they never even bothered sending me at leats one of my character name when they
implemented this security feature
HOW MANY PLAYER ARE LIKE ME THAT CANT ACCESS GUILD WARS BECAUSE OF THAT FEATURE?
i bet a lot!i dont mind the character name idea but gees at least spam me once in a while on my e-mail with at least a character name
how many write down their character name gees!
so now i got a guild wars every freaking release to date and cant access it because of pen pusher
and on the other side i get spammed every week from f2p game account i have on other game
i just dont get arenanet policy! but i can login on my collector editon aion just fine
this is so silly its ridiculous!
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Just wait till you want to reset your password - you'll need to remember stuff from 5 years ago because there is no friggin' automatic process for it.
Wow, sounds like you have the same problem you WOULD HAVE HAD if you had taken over someone else's account. How is it possible you cannot remember the name of ONE of your characters? You realize, of course, that they put that feature in so people who tried to steal other people's accounts could not get into the account without knowing the name of at least one character (so the password alone would not be sufficient.) Sounds like your injuries here are self-inflicted.
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funny the same thing happened to me this morning, decided i was going to go back and play for a bit and when i tried to access account, they asked for a character name, which i did in fact remeber but still was unable to access it, tried the password reset and got nothing and also have had the same email for eons. sent a ticket to support, we shall see
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This is why i keep a note book handy with game acount names an pass words.I doubt i could rember every character i have in every game. But i do try to use same names over and over again.
Not loged into guild wars in while tho .Might be good time to check out whats changed.
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I haven't played GW in ages but I went and pulled this up for you.
http://www.guildwars.com/support/log-in-security.php
Q: What if I've forgotten the name of the character on my account?
A: Just contact Support and we'd be happy to help you out.
Support is contacted via email or their Web system both found here:
http://www.guildwars.com/support/
hell im glad i saved my boxes because they wanted every key i have for all my ncsoft games
gw and cox and thats all the expansions for gw too
QFT
Just reposting this in case the OP missed this.
you also need to know your toons first and last name
Have No Fear Cohas is here!!!
I could see how it would be a problem though. I mean, I don't remember any of my chars names from guildwars. Doesn't bother me though, I didn't plan on playing it anymore anyways.
I know exactly how you feel, OP. I tried to log back in to GW after a few years from playing, about a week ago. I wanted to see and remember what made me give it up. So, I try to log in and they ask me for my character name. Now, for the poeple that are thinking; "Why can't you remember your character name?," please realize that some people, myself included, haven't played this game in over three years. With the internet and online games becoming more and more commonplace, so does the use of different character and user names. When you play more than one game, and you haven't played for years, it's easy to forget your character's name. That said, I needed to go through NCsoft support, as someone mentioned. If you've ever had to go through NC support, you should consider yourself better off. First, you log in to NC. Then, you click on "support." It moves you to the support area, but at the same time, it logs you out NCsoft homepage, even though you're clearly still on the same website. Silly, I know. Anyway, I then had to dig up my access code for the game, give my NC account name & email address, and explain my problem. Now, here's what really irked me: When I put my email and account name in, it said that I'd have to set up a new email account if they didn't recognize the address. Fine. I've been playing NCsoft games for years and have had the same email for years, as well, so my email is there, right?. Wrong. I was moved to another page that asked me to register my email, because the database didn't recognize it. However, when I tried to register my email, it said, "that email already exists in the database," and wouldn't let me go any further through support.
Anyway, I hate to bore with such a long description, but I eventually had to just send an email directly from my yahoo account, and I got a response about 36 hours later. I was able to log in, and I quickly remembered why this game couldn't keep me in the first place: practically zero story; a cookie cutter-like, non-complex battle system (damage given and taken is way too predictable, even for an mmorpg), and a community that largely consists of players that aren't interested in helping or communicating with you, unless you can help them.
I know, my anectdote turned in to a little bit of a rant, but it's true.
{edited for spelling}
You had me until you said zero story. The game has an amazing storyline with cut scenes.
gw is all about boting cheap code inctances ...etc
if you see all bots in gw...u will forgetb its free...well buy to play more exactly
THANKS for the first name/last name tip! THAT is why I could not get in...awesome.
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I'm sure you all are sick ofn this but i contacted them 3 times email and they said they'll fix it and i get a mail back saying something about survey if i liked how they fixed my issue which didn't what should i do?
Are we talking about the same Guild Wars here? Because they Guild Wars I've been playing for over 4 years is the same Guild Wars that despite its age is still teeming with people compared to practically every other MMO out there, and still manages to hold the number 14 spot on Xfire, at the very least (above Eve Online).
Why, by the way, can't you remember a character name? I can remember the names of characters in almost every MMO I've played, and I've played many!
I have a bad habbit of deleting andf i had more than one account gave one to my lil brother....and the fact that i haven't played in awhile i always tend to use same type of names just fact i cant remember i tried a lot...Oh well if worse comes tro worse i'll buy it again
Oh goodness hahaha i just got an email with my char name and i can't believe i forgot that one
/facepalm
gratz to having your account back!
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Yeah, I had the same issue. Haven't played in quite a while and that "feature" wasn't there the last time I played. I also couldn't remember any character names.
It was horrible. I had to -- with great effort -- drag my hand over to the mouse and close GuildWars. After wiping the sweat from my brow, there was the equally tiring series of mouse-clicks to get to their website. I was so tired and angry at this point, I almost broke down.
Then there was the 100 words I had to type in a support ticket and send it off to the company. For God's sake, they made me type! Such an unreasonable requirement just to get back into the game.
After all this work, I had to wait a whole 45 minutes just to get a response. 45 minutes! What kind of shoddy customer service takes that long! What a bunch of incompetent people at NCSoft. Their response to me should be instantaneous. Don't they know I am the ONLY important customer here.
I wasted a total of 60-70 minutes trying to get this fixed. Can you believe that?
lol no need to be an ass about it, he could've been like me, i have 3 different accounts just because I was THAT into the game back then; furthermore, it was somewhat a necessity back then since you could not increase the number of character slots you have on an account so after a while it gets too filled up. (also max gold you can hold is 1.6 mil... so some ppl had to get another account to hold more gold) so its easy to forget when theres the requirement of a first and last name.
either way i had the same rpbolem coming back like 2 months ago but after i troubleshooted their help they asked me a few questions and they actually gave me my names back so i was able to recover like 2 of my accounts ( i actually remembered the name of my 3rd account suprisingly)
Same prob here. I haven't been so lucky as to have someone from support get back to me in less then two hours though. Working on two days right now...
Blizz had a much better idea for account security. Then again with 1.whatever billion players at $14/mo I guess they can afford to hire people with good ideas.
Right, because having the number of hacked accounts increase after forcing everyone over to the Battle.net logins using their emails shows how good of an idea that was . . .