Feycat

Heh! I wasn't sure if you meant Guardian, or Elementalist (since that's the closest "caster class" that might match up to CoH Defendering)

BTW, in regards to you being hacked, here's what Anet posted today in their daily update:

So hopefully they can sort you out soon! Feel free to look me up if you're playing on Tarnished Coast!

Yup.

Here's Anet's posting on it as of today's (Tuesday's) daily update:

A what? There's no such thing.

I've played most of the new MMOs that have come out in the last couple of years, for at least the free month, and you're quite wrong. It's a sequel, not a copy. It has a lot of new mechanics that "fix" a lot of the problems that Everyone-Copy-WoW-itis brought to the MMOsphere.

The community of a one-week old game will of course not be very close O.o However, lots of people/guilds have been following the game for a long time and have created some welcoming communities which will, one hopes, spread as the game ages. I know I've gotten to take part in some very fun RP with total strangers.

The game is very player-friendly, in a way other MMOs are not. You can't killsteal/tag other people's mobs. You don't hurt their xp by buffing or healing or helping them kill things. You can't steal other people's resource nodes. You can't steal other people's quest glowies. You can't steal other peoples' loot chests. EVERYONE in an area is welcome to participate in everything that's going on. That's FAR from a solo person's game - just because you're not grouped doesn't mean you're not part of the "group" around you. It's a very different mechanical system in that way.

This is a willful misinterpretation of what's being said. Accounts are being hacked, but NOT from within Anet's system. People are culling email addresses and passwords from other games, from gaming forums, from game mail websites, etc, and then just rolling random passwords to try and get in. Anet has been locking accounts to protect them, and answering tickets as quickly as they can. People HAVE been getting their accounts back, don't lose hope!

Yeah, the "botting" they're talking about is standing next to certain dynamic events that are almost constantly triggered with something heavy on the 1 key so they can afk-farm the events :P And they're banning people for the botting, isn't that what you WANT them to do?

Did you click any links in the email? The email was likely a phish.

No.

I'm saying that going out of your way to hurt Anet isn't going to help Paragon. And you attacking other members of this community doesn't help, either.

And that blaming Anet makes as much sense as blaming Paragon. They're both studios that published under NCSoft, with their funding.

But you have never EVER ONCE seen me defend NCsoft or say that NCsoft didn't do a terrible, stupid, awful, unwise, cruel, callous, idiotic thing.

Wild is right. Why even make stuff up and post it? Seriously?

Again, you are ignorant. HELL YES.

"Hello,

In the coming hours, we will be restoring account access to those who were suspended for exploiting the bugged vendor prices for the Norn Cultural weapons. Not everyone will have access restored right away. In some cases we are awaiting more information from the player, and some appeals are still coming in. We will address each appeal as quickly as we can.

We’d like to remind everyone that we do not seek to punish, and any time a drastic measure like this is taken, it is taken to maintain the health and integrity of the game. As we reinstate these accounts, we expect everyone who appealed to honor their commitment to destroy all illegitimate gains, whether those are crafting items, currencies, or the weapons themselves. To remove currencies, making a purchase of appropriate value and destroying that purchase will suffice.

We would also like to acknowledge that we are not free from blame. In a game this big, problems inevitably occur that are difficult to locate , and moving forward we will continue to address these issues in a timely, communicative and efficient manner. What constitutes an exploit, and what has resulted in these suspensions, is using a flaw in the game to gain an unfair advantage over other players that is clearly not in line with the design of the game. Please remember, opportunity does not equal permission.

We also understand that sometimes the consequences of such an exploit may not be clear or apparent. In these cases, try to think about how the actions of one player can affect the millions of other players, or the in-game economy as a whole. In your appeals, many of you stated that you only purchased large quantities of weapons to use for personal gain and not for profit. Such an act devalues the time and effort put forth by every other player who opts not to take advantage of an exploit. We will be publishing a FAQ on exploits soon.

On the subject of your appeals, most of you expressed understanding for the decisions that we made. For that, we are deeply appreciative. Going forward, we will strive to maintain only the highest of standards for the game and the community, and we ask that you do the same.

As one player noted in his appeal, we have the opportunity to work together to forge a legendary MMO experience and that is not something we take for granted. If you encounter any other bugs or anything suspicious in game, please feel free to report it by typing "/bug" in-game, or by sending an e-mail to exploits@arena.net.

All of that said, on behalf of ArenaNet and NCsoft, we’d like to extend a sincere welcome back to Tyria. Let's all have some fun.

Regards, The Guild Wars Support Team"

Seriously, is it so hard to do a little research before you slander?

The GW2 hacks are the result of aggressive goldfarmers, and email lists culled from other games, resulting in password changes by using legitimate customer emails, and people who are phished and are stupid enough to click a link in an email. It is NOT a result of poor security on Anet's part, but they are adding an authenticator to the account options ASAP.

Anet is also not linking your Anet/GW2 account with your NCsoft account. I was surprised by that when I registered, expecting to link them up, but nope. My GW2 account cannot be access from my NCsoft account page.

You know, maybe this isn't the case, but it feels like maybe our reaction helped inspire the studio to fight. A lot of the farewell posts seemed so resigned - I hope the fact that they know how much we want them here, how much the game means to us, how much we're willing to fight for them, helped give them more morale in their fight for us

Or better yet, a sequel with a more modern engine/graphics but the same fantastic features and sensibilities!

I think enhancements are fine they way they are. The only thing I'd drop is TOs, and change the level spread on DOs, but there are many people in this game who NEVER wanted anything to do with the IO system and played the game quite happily on SOs. Letting people play the game the way they want is a cornerstone of what made COH work.

In-game group finders kill community. Making it so you click a button and are auto-joined to a bunch of strangers in the instance of your choice completely destroys any group dynamic. This is true of the other games that have implemented it, and is even true of our own event finder. The making of even a token effort to TALK TO other people, join a group by responding to someone looking for peeps, join an SG to have people to group with, etc, BUILDS community.

The chat system in COH, the multiple custom channels and globals, was and is awesome and should be maintained, but outside channels? No thanks.

Over-scale all the enemies and it would pale pretty quickly. Rare giant monsters like Jack and the Monster Island were great, but I wouldn't want them overused, they'd become tedious.

Speak for yourself, not for the rest of us. "It's insulting to us."

To be completely honest? I honestly feel like this would be the best solution.

Of course, I'm absolutely in favor of saving what we have NOW, keeping the community together, keeping the game afloat.

But to be frank, the game is old. And looks it. The mechanics are fabulous, character creation unrivaled, sidekicking, base building, mission creator, the enhancement system - all unique and wonderful. But they're clunking along with a frankly often-ugly graphic set in a very old engine.

I'd love to not ONLY save this game now, but see someone working on a successor game that would be more modern and actually ATTRACT new players.

I can't help playing GW2, looking at the beautiful graphics, the wonderful character customization (yes, not like COH, you can't pick your outfits and you have to use loot, but being able to sculpt my character's face exactly how I wanted instead of using one of the blurry pre-mades was GOLD!) the fluid movements and engine and all I can think is - DAMMIT I WANT COH TO BE IN THIS ENGINE AND GRAPHICS!

Eh, noscript/scriptblocker takes care of dumb sig graphics. Like that guy misusing George Carlin so egregiously.

Maybe, maybe not.

http://unsubject.wordpress.com/2012/...e-world-event/

Eew, no it wasn't.

/unsigned

Actually, she DID say that SOE was one of the companies putting in a bid. You can't handwave that. I don't care if she's your buddy, but coming in here and dropping crypic <3 comments and then vanishing IS detrimental. It's going to stop people from investing their efforts in trying to save the game, if people are doing **** like this. It's blatant false hope, and it's not fair to anyone.

It's not being an a-hole to demand that someone give out truthful info or none at all.

Then she should say that straight-up and stop trying to act like she knows more than she does.

That would be great to know, but again, you're extrapolating based on her cryptic tea-leaves comments and making stuff up on the spot, which is what those kinds of posts DO. And that sucks.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's not going to come back and answer this. I'm also pretty sure the whole chinese-fortune-teller act is an attention-grab and she doesn't know anything :-/

I have not seen ANYONE defend NCSoft, NOT ONE. Please link me to ANYONE saying that it was a good thing!!!

I have seen people search for the REASONS NCSoft cut PS, because the more we know THAT, the more we can tailor our rescue efforts. If it was purely a financial move, then we have a better shot at them being willing to sell it.

But we also want to be REASONABLE about this, because getting emotional and hysterical aren't going to help ANY of us at this point. Spreading lies and rumors are only going to hurt people in the long run.

I for one hope they at LEAST do that much. They've done it before.

Yeah, my husband is pretty upset. His account lapsed just after this whole thing hit, he can't turn it back on, and he can't unlock ALL of his characters for screenshotting. He's super bummed