Update - Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Odd.....is to say the least

A: I can't recall names of my storage characters on another accounts.
B: I have multiple Prophecies CD keys -- I can't tell who's who.
C: I'm not sure if I know where all said keys are, so I cannot prove that I own them.


I cannot say that I like this option. I vote making this optional.

Well, I've been getting a bunch of 007 errors. Don't know if this is happening to everyone, or just me.

Odd, but I think I can see the logic - it means that somebody at least needs to do a modicum of research on the specific account they're trying to hack. Although it DOES have the effect of meaning that people who list their characters in a public place have possibly weakened their security (although hopefully said people don't also reveal the email attached to the account).

I wouldn't say revealing your character name would weaken your account. At worst, it would make it just as easy/hard to hack into.

Same here, on all counts. :/

This probably solves the NCMA problem. There's no point in hacking the NCMA if you're going to immediately crash into an additional security barrier that requires further brute force to crack, yet alert the prospective victim to the attempted theft.

It isn't a perfect solution (you can still end up having to fight Support to get your account back), but it should deter the thieves.

Kudos to ANet for finding a workaround that doesn't require NCSoft participation.

I just kicked out while doing a quest. Usually I get the "A new build of Guild Wars is available". That kind of blows.

Haha, if this had been implemented a month ago id still have 800e....but, i can already see the many QQers of this with all the 2nd accs and stuff...lucky for me i got bored one day and wrote down every character on each of my accounts...

I'd say this is a great start. It should at least help to stem the amount of hacks while Anet works on more/better security implementations or the like.

Decent idea, too bad my 9 year old bro who just started like 2 days ago can't remember the names of his characters. There all jumbled up names and stuff. Its alright though, I'll figure it out. Still like the step.

At least people won't lose their accounts via random brute forcing.

I had to deal with NCSoft recently for my daughter and wasn't sure which Proph keys were hers and which were mine. I provided both of them and explained we didn't know who's was who's. Providing both seemed to satisfy them as we got the situation resolved.

As for not knowing where the keys are....ouchies. Sorry, can't help with that one.

This has to be the most retarded way to enhance security one could think of. Is this really the best they could come up with?

Wow.

First off, it is still Monday on PCT, which is what most gw activities go by :P

Secondly on the topic this is a GOOD thing they're doing in the sense that it is SOMETHING. However, its more of a blanket protection. Instead of "locking" chars/items its just another wall to get through. Basically only prevents automated randomish guessing, because all someone needs is to see you in-game to bypass this.

I think it's pretty obvious this is a bandaid until they have a better solution. And uhh, yeah, this is actually a pretty damn good way to prevent getting your account stolen. Unless the person knows you, your account isn't going to be able to get bruteforced, and someone who gives you a trojan won't be able to access your account unless they met you on GW. So yeah, it's going to prevent plenty of stolen accounts. Is it the best solution? No. Is it a working solution and a good bandaid? Yes.

This. Also puts things in perspective seeing how Anet asked GWG to take off ign's. Did they allude to this when they talked to you or was GWG in cahoots?

If I recall correctly, we weren't directly asked to do anything. Pretty sure a few weeks ago Gaile mentioned that telling people your ign was a security risk, so Inde removed the ign's in profiles. We knew nothing about this security question addition.

It'll act like a second password they'll have to figure out.

no hacker is going to go ingame and look for targets.

Does anyone else besides me have any trouble using Texmod + Cartography Made Easy now? Its not working for me at all since this update...