Change Character Without Logging Out

eamerrob

eamerrob

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2006

Kingston, ON, Canada

Canadian Legion Of Doom (LOD)

W/Mo

This is just one thing that annoys me. I have four characters and hate having to log back in every time I switch to another character. Anet should make it so that you can switch characters without logging you out.

NOTE: This issue may have been brought up before, but the search is currently disabled

Tufty

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2006

UK

CUTE

Yeah this is kind of irritating but Im sure there is some overwhelmingly complicated reason why it works this way. Because it makes sense to just switch characters so there can be no other way around it

Str0b0

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

North Carolina

N/Me

Yes I find this irritating as well.

/signed

azuresun

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2006

WV, USA

Spirit of Elisha [SOE]

Me/

/signed

Hunter Sharparrow

Hunter Sharparrow

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Mar 2006

Jeepers Kreepers

R/Mo

Right click on your desktop shortcut and go to where it says target. After the line in quotation put a space then -password=xxxxx (where xxxxx is your password) and no more having to type it in yourself.

".....gw.exe" -password=xxxxx

It's been brought up not too long ago.

Jenosavel

Jenosavel

Master of Beasts

Join Date: Jul 2005

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

This has been addressed by ANet many times and they are firmly against changing it. It's a security measure so that the 'evil little brother' can't ruin your entire account, but merely one character. (ie: get up to go to the bathroom, come back to find your account wiped... not cool).

I understand why people want it changed, and that it might seem unneccessary as a security measure. However, it doesn't matter what I think. What matters is that ANet has been very solid in their stance that as a security measure the need to re-login to switch characters will stay. No number of requests will change their minds on this one.