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Originally Posted by thecoffeeguy
I went to go buy this today online, only be told it was sold out. I thought that was odd.
I did some digging to find out that, they are not in fact "sold out", but they halted sales because of some serious security issues currently going on....thats concerning.
I guess users who bought the game are receiving A TON of phishing emails...
Kinda sucks as i wanted to try it. Little concerning because makes me think ArenaNet was breached and all those email accounts were harvested.
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Hello.
Let me introduce you into todays world of MMO hacking and phishing.
I want to start off by saying that the fact you said that you think email/pw combos have been taken from Anet shows you dont pay attention to gaming news. What is happening in gw2 is the same thing that happened to d3. Next, the % of accounts that have been compromised is in the tenths of 1% of total game accounts, and they have all been compromised becuase people dont follow day 1 kindergarten account security suggestions.
ALL of the MILLIONS of email/pass combos that these hackers are using are from the same list they have recently used against wow and d3. ALL of those name/pw combos where taken from ill secured fan sites, forums, and even non-gaming sites that had security vulnerabilities. In fact, there are MANY hacking groups out there that have been sold the original lists and nearly all have been secured. Out of those MILLIONS of accounts, very very very few have yielded an actually hacked account. And ONLY if you are using the same email/pw combo you have used on other ill secured websites!
Dont be a chicken little, and dont use the same password for everything. If you want a secure account, create a new email address with a unique pw and register it.
there ya go. Play the game.
edit; they didnt stop digital sales because of security concerns - they stopped becuase of server population concerns, They didnt want to give players bad service becuase there where too many of them. That being said AFAIK only the digital downloads bought at guild wars are turned off, other retailers, as long as they have cd keys left, should still be selling them. Try Amazon.