Buy NCSoft Store Guild Wars items as gift?

Tolmos

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Sep 2010

Disciples of the Blade

E/Mo

Hi there. I was wanting to purchase one or two items (such as costume sets or skill unlocks) off the NCSoft store as gifts for a friend who plays the game. I want it to be a surprise so I will not have their account info available to me at the time of purchase.

I was under the impression that you would receive a serial key when you made the purchase that would be inputted into the game. However, when I go to make the purchase it requires a valid game account before continuing.

A further complication is that I already own said addons. So, even if it just requires my account to be linked for the purchase and then gives me a code, I still can't make the purchase because my account isn't considered valid to repurchase the same thing.

Any tips or is it just not possible to gift these things to someone without them logging in first?

Bristlebane

Bristlebane

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jan 2008

Mo/

As far as I know, it would link directly to your account.

Darcy

Darcy

Never Too Old

Join Date: Jul 2006

Rhode Island where there are no GW contests

Order of First

W/R

NCSoft does not allow gift purchases. In fact, they actually tell you in the Knowledge Base to go buy a retail copy instead. The best you could do would be to purchase a Visa gift card so he can buy it himself. As that would spoil the surprise, you might as well purchase it from his login screen.

Jenn

Jenn

Resigned.

Join Date: Sep 2006

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Originally Posted by Darcy View Post
NCSoft does not allow gift purchases. In fact, they actually tell you in the Knowledge Base to go buy a retail copy instead. The best you could do would be to purchase a Visa gift card so he can buy it himself. As that would spoil the surprise, you might as well purchase it from his login screen.
I would strongly caution against doing this. Not only could it get you guys in trouble for account sharing, people have been known to get their accounts locked up for "fraud." This has happened to people when a credit card gets used on multiple accounts.