I've got a support ticket in to try and figure out my options, because I don't want to continue creating a new account and lose my characters and contacts/friends list. Following the instruction video does me no good because A) I don't have an existing Guild Wars 1 account to attach, so answering "Yes" to that question fails, and B) if I say "No" to that question, I'm sent to the "create a new account" page with no "I already have a Guild Wars 2 account" option.
#Guild wars 2 free to play alt account serial#
Awesome.Īnd of course there's apparently no way to attach the retail serial to your existing account. So I alt-tabbed out, closed the game client, relaunched and got greeted with a message that my account isn't authorized. Escape wasn't bringing up the menu, clicking wasn't doing anything. It went from bottom left to top right.) Still had the mouse cursor and music/sound effects, but I couldn't do anything. Just wiped to black (by wiped, I mean wiped, like a video transition.
I was just in the middle of a quest when midnight rolled around, and the screen wiped to black. You'd think they would have mentioned it at some point. I've been playing off and on since 8/25 (3 days pre-purchase head start). But I also assumed the game/launcher would have at least mentioned it so I could have taken care of it yesterday while I was still in the grace period. Granted I realize NOW the flaw in my thinking, that it could be used to provide me with two accounts, getting around the 5 free character limit, etc, if it worked that way. I just picked up my retail box yesterday, and hadn't even opened it until this happened. So I just assumed my pre-purchase serial was going to continue working after the game launched. I got prompted to verify my email address every time I logged in (which resulted in broken links and they've only just now gotten fixed apparently), but never once did the game client prompt me to enter a retail serial, nor is there a way to enter my retail serial in my account info on. So I just ran into the problem with my account being locked out because I didn't enter my retail serial within the 5 day grace period.
#Guild wars 2 free to play alt account for free#
If you would like to see a list of the full restrictions in place for free accounts, head here. The game they are playing is exactly the same game that they were playing Friday, no changes at all."
Everybody can try, and I am confident that when people get into the game it’s going to be exactly the same. "You don’t have to read a big list of changes and tweaks and restrictions, because we’re opening it up the day we announce it. O'Brien's message to players is simple: try it. You’re going to have a bunch of new players but it’s going to be the same friendly community-the same protected community-that it’s always been. "If we did our jobs right," O'Brien says, "and I totally believe that we've done this right, new players coming into the game are going to get the full authentic experience, but the community is not going to change. I ask O'Brien if he's worried about what effect going free might have on the community-a group that ArenaNet has frequently praised for their helpfulness and friendliness. We've been working on various iterations of this for about a year now, making sure that we tweak and get this right" "It’s really important to me-I think it's really important to all of us-that we protect this great community that we have, and so we’ve been tweaking and tweaking. "It’s really important to me that we protect this great community."įor O'Brien, it's essential that ArenaNet safeguard the existing community. We just make sure that people play the game before they can get into a position where they can disrupt other players." "If you didn’t have to do that," says O'Brien, "then there’s no way that we could keep people who were being very disruptive from going back into world versus world over and over with new characters. The example given is World vs World, which will be unavailable until players reach level 60. We would delete the account, and they would create a new account and spam everyone in the game."įinally, ArenaNet has taken steps to stop new players from disrupting the game's more competitive modes. "If we didn’t have a subtle restriction like that in place, then a spammer could spam everyone in the game. "You can whisper to anybody you want to," he says, choosing one example, "but you can’t create new whisper conversations more than about once every 30 seconds." It's a small restriction, but one that shouldn't impact regular players. According to O'Brien, these are all subtle measures. Secondly, protections have been put in place against spammers. Firstly account storage-something ArenaNet views as a luxury. There will, however, be some restrictions in place for free players.
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