Log-in screen notification that your account has xxx incorrect login attempts

Not sure if this has been suggested before, but just something that's always been in the back of my head

If someone's trying to get into your GW account, it would be nice if there was some notification screen during log-in that would state how many incorrect login attempts since your last successful login

reasons are obvious

perhaps you could stipulate in a preferences menu that if your account has been unsuccessfully attempted to login xxx amount of times (you set that number), it's locked out for either a certain amount of time, or until you do some measure to unlock it.

the more time that goes by, the more people accumulate wealth, and the bigger the target people become

i like the idea,

/signed

Technically /signed, my account has already been hacked once.
Thankfully I got it back.

However, I think they can't do this, from the way my account was hacked and the way I got is back it was quite obvious that NCsoft/playNC overwrites all GW account propositions, meaning that such locking and unlocking is done from a playNC account.

And the annoying thing about that is, the playNC account is the boss over the GW account, if the playNC account has been registered, the locking, password changing and account details changing, must all be done through playNC because if you do it trough GW the connected playNC account refuses the GW account the authorization to change it's own data.

But I guess a Anet could disscus with NCsoft to send the amount of failed logins to playNC, who could then add and option to lock and unlock based on that info.

Thats a great idea.

/Signed

I would really like this feature.

Good idea, theres too many games where people get hacked and if they can have some sort of pre-notification that someone is attempting their account they can take action to protect it. /signed

/signed

If someone was trying to log in, Id like to know.

/signed

I've had friends who quit the game after losing everything to a hacker. They didn't have the heart to restart from the loss and don't blame them. I probably wouldn't either. I'd definately like to know if someone's been fiddling with my account.

I don't give out my GW e-mail to random people, so this doesn't happen, but I guess it matters to the people that do.

/sign, i guess

ANet still needs to address the security concerns that linking your account to NCSoft causes. This should have been in the game a year ago. I suspect the problem is with NCSoft. Good idea, though.
/signed

edit: @Kanyatta: Currently, there is no notification to players that their account is subject to "brute-force" password attacks. These programs run tirelessly, continually, and much faster than a human.

Yes, I know that, but in order for them to get a "password attack" going on you, they must first have your e-mail, which you shouldn't be giving out to anyone who asks of it.

BTW, tirelesslessly is not a word.

What stops them from running the same program to find your email? Once you link your account to NCSoft, you are no longer able to change it.

That's why it's probably a good idea not to link your account to NCSoft, unless you have a serious issue with the game. Don't just link it needlessly, I still have not linked my account to NCSoft, because I have never seen a need.

That's my whole point, really. NCSoft has failed to address basic security concerns. It's their responsibility to take basic steps for online security for an online service, and they have failed to do so. This should change.

You should get NCsoft; I didn't, that is how my account got hacked, if you are not linked to NCsoft, a hacker that manages to get into your account can/will link your GW account to their NCsoft account, then they own your account.
You will not be able to reset/change passwords or anything to get the hacker out, if you do not own the NCsoft account to which your GW account is registered, you lose all control of your GW account.

It took around a week and me faxing copies of my GW CD key's and receipts to England to get my GW account registered to a newly created NCsoft account.

absolutely like the idea of notification. diablo 2 had it and it makes sense. also, tying your email adress to your account as primary id is a bad idea. if someone manages to log on to the address, he or she can get the a/c info too.

/signed

Mine got linked when I didnt know about it, we need to be able to unlink it.....

Not exactly sure why my previous post was deleted, but I'll /sign this again.

It's an excellent idea to give you an idea if you're being hacked. Good security measure.

Definitely would be a nice feature, and it shouldn't be too hard to put in.

/signed

They have this in Diablo 2 (or at least had, I haven't played that in like 3 years).


It was nice to know people tried logging into my account 100 times a day, that helped me keep my account.