Well, I am planning to buy this game, but I read that you can get your account hacked easily and many people have lost their account. Is this all true?
Don't tell anyone your account information. Don't share your account.
Don't use the same user name/password to register on any fan forums or clan forums.
Don't use power level service.
Don't download crap that might have keylogger.
Use anti-virus and ad-aware very frequently.
Should be fine if you do all above.
Most people who were hacked were either 1. Sharing account with others (in this case they were betrayed, not hacked)
2. used power lvl service. The farmers who power lvled them might "hack" them.
3. Got a keylogger from downloading crap.
4. Registered on fan site forum with same account user name and password.
5. Someone made a fool of you that "made" you told the info that requires to reset password, such as birthday and secret question.
6. There was such case, a bunch of jerks in a clan hacked their enemy clan's clan forum, the people who had the same account info on forum were hacked.
Anyway, hope you got the idea. All "hacks" were caused by the problems on the users side.
Barely anyone in North America has ever been hacked. The only time someone is hacked, which isn't technically hacking, is where you trust another player with your account info, and then they decide to run off with your gear.
Hacking has occured in Korea, due to chinese having to steal the Korean Social Security numbers to get onto the servers, but there is nothing like that on the servers you will play.
Your chance of someone hacking your lineage 2 account is the same as someone hacking any online account you have, including your online banking account. Overall it is pretty secure.
If you get hacked, most of the time it is the player's fault for doing something. Either by doing a powerlvling service, account sharing, ebaying, visiting sites for cheating, etc.
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Maybe if you let a powerlevelling service take over your account for some time.
Seriously, L2 is just like any other game, make a simple account name and password and it is easy to hack.
Don't tell anyone your account information. Don't share your account.
Don't use the same user name/password to register on any fan forums or clan forums.
Don't use power level service.
Don't download crap that might have keylogger.
Use anti-virus and ad-aware very frequently.
Should be fine if you do all above.
Most people who were hacked were either
1. Sharing account with others (in this case they were betrayed, not hacked)
2. used power lvl service. The farmers who power lvled them might "hack" them.
3. Got a keylogger from downloading crap.
4. Registered on fan site forum with same account user name and password.
5. Someone made a fool of you that "made" you told the info that requires to reset password, such as birthday and secret question.
6. There was such case, a bunch of jerks in a clan hacked their enemy clan's clan forum, the people who had the same account info on forum were hacked.
Anyway, hope you got the idea. All "hacks" were caused by the problems on the users side.
Hacking has occured in Korea, due to chinese having to steal the Korean Social Security numbers to get onto the servers, but there is nothing like that on the servers you will play.
Your chance of someone hacking your lineage 2 account is the same as someone hacking any online account you have, including your online banking account. Overall it is pretty secure.
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i think the tips above are all good ones
dun make some dumb password like 12345 and u should be fine
dun tell people ur birthday or personal stuff like that
people will ask you to use your account especially if you have a buffbot...dun ever do that either