Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by Amjoco

You could call a Blizzard rep for help or maybe Trion. How about Funcom?

 

at least I can call them, and at least every time I have had an issue with either of those 3 companies, I have always got some type of response in at most 12 hrs

Arenanet gives you no feedback, no response, and no phone number to call.  Its ridiculous, they dont care cause they already got our money, we arent gonna cancel our subs

 

You didn't the first 2 weeks out of the shoot.

edit: you can wait up to 4 to 5 days for blizzard to get to you. I waited for more than an hour on hold with blizzard one time just waiting in queue and that was after Wrath of the Lich King. It's not just ArenaNet. 

I waited 2 mins to talk to someone in person during the TSW launch

I waited for 10 mins to talk to someone in person during the RIFT launch

dont understand how anyone can defend Arenanets customer service, well actually I do its called major fanboi

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by jpnole

Originally posted by Myrdynn

ticket open since last Friday, still no response what-so-ever, I thought this was supposed to be a AAA game, my ass.  I got "Permabanned, hacked" after playing a grand total of 10 hrs in game, and although I was enjoying myself suprisingly, quite a bit, I am completely irritatted at the lack of customer service that Arenanet provides.  It is completely unacceptable.  FWIW I dont need to hear how oh its my fault for getting hacked crap either, I use a completely unique password for my email and every gaming account I have ever made.   And quite frankly I dont care that I got hacked/banned for protective reasoning, all I care about is hearing 1 fricking reply from this horrible company.   Hacking happens, not an issue.  Zero response, HUGE ISSUE.  And from the forums I am not the only one.  It is quite a huge occurance.

 

If this were true, you'd be playing in game right now.

[mod edit]

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/z5xiy/was_your_account_hacked_after_password_spam_heres/

There is another story about this.

**Tl;Dr: Generally when you see password reset spam on user accounts, it means someone is trying to exploit the system being used to generate authentication links by spamming password reset requests on one end, and spamming potential authentication links on the other.

If you were hacked, your e-mail is filled with password reset spam, and you were using a password unique to GW2- this is probably how it happened. If this is the case, your password and information is safe, and the fault lies entirely with whoever set up the security system.)**

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by Amjoco

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by Amjoco

You could call a Blizzard rep for help or maybe Trion. How about Funcom?

 

at least I can call them, and at least every time I have had an issue with either of those 3 companies, I have always got some type of response in at most 12 hrs

Arenanet gives you no feedback, no response, and no phone number to call.  Its ridiculous, they dont care cause they already got our money, we arent gonna cancel our subs

 

You didn't the first 2 weeks out of the shoot.

edit: you can wait up to 4 to 5 days for blizzard to get to you. I waited for more than an hour on hold with blizzard one time just waiting in queue and that was after Wrath of the Lich King. It's not just ArenaNet. 

I waited 2 mins to talk to someone in person during the TSW launch

I waited for 10 mins to talk to someone in person during the RIFT launch

dont understand how anyone can defend Arenanets customer service, well actually I do its called major fanboi

With all due respect, GW2 planned for probably somewhere between 1-2 mil sales, and exceeded it.

TSW expected somewhere upwards of waht 750k to 1mil and didn't even break 300k?

TSW over-hired, ANet under hired, it's a mistake, and they're fixing it, they put in new freshly trained GMs so they should help with clearing out a lot of tickets.

I've never waited under 20 minutes with support. EA with a DAoC over-charge on my card resulted in a two week battle and hours on the phone. 

Took siriusxm 3 hours to verify my freaking account i've had for a year today. 

My point? Life sucks, and siriusxm pisses me off.

to the thread OP:

you really are not a TERA-EU victim. Frogster WAS and IS by far the worst company in mmo history...

(just to point out that 1 month after TERA launch in Europe roughly half of the population preferred to play on TERA NA with higher ping but run by EN MASSE instead of staying on EU servers)

Originally posted by Myrdynn

ticket open since last Friday, still no response what-so-ever, I thought this was supposed to be a AAA game, my ass.  I got "Permabanned, hacked" after playing a grand total of 10 hrs in game, and although I was enjoying myself suprisingly, quite a bit, I am completely irritatted at the lack of customer service that Arenanet provides.  It is completely unacceptable.  FWIW I dont need to hear how oh its my fault for getting hacked crap either, I use a completely unique password for my email and every gaming account I have ever made.   And quite frankly I dont care that I got hacked/banned for protective reasoning, all I care about is hearing 1 fricking reply from this horrible company.   Hacking happens, not an issue.  Zero response, HUGE ISSUE.  And from the forums I am not the only one.  It is quite a huge occurance.

Honestly, I'm enjoying the game, but this is something that REALLY NEEDS TO GET TALKED ABOUT.

A lot of the people covering this game have mentioned absolutely nothing about situations like these, but they aren't exactly isolated either. One of the members in my guild even thought I was lying initially when I mentioned what happened (my account was also banned for close to a week, for no reason at all). When he found out I was telling the truth his response was then basically 'oh well, that's not a big deal, and probably not that many were effected. There's really no issue here'.

Seriously, Anet really does need to step up it's customer service if it expects to be a AAA developer. It's as simple as that. Hell, when a WoW account gets hacked, you at least get a response immediately. You can still play (though not on any effected characters), but you at least know they're looking into it. Furthermore, when your company is guilty of falsely banning a few 100 people, you should at least do them the curtosy of informing them of the situation. Or own up to your mistake and apologize. It may seem like a small thing, but it really goes a long way. Especially if you are banking your success off of having a good relationship with the community. Incidents like this really bother me. I never had (or even heard of) incidents like this with GW1.

Furthermore, if you want actual info you have to go to places like reddit, or twitter to get a timely response. That's extremely unprofessional imho. At the very least have a central notice board / forums for technical issues. I don't care if you don't have official game forums, but at least have a method of communicating support issues in a timely manner. No one should have to wait a week to get a response. I'm glad they are stiffly punishing hackers, botters, and exploiters; but it also means they need to be more careful about who they inflict such punishment on. A lot of innocent gamers were hit by their ban hammer, and that's not a good way to run a game.

Originally posted by Margulis
Experienced the same thing with SWTOR - hard to say which one is worse.  At least this game is ten times better, lol

Really? Bioware took a week to get back to you w/ a response?

Checking in as another guy waiting forever for customer service. I got an automated message today on how to reset my password. Thanks ANet. My email was changed, but thank you for reading that and deciding to send me a link to a completely unrelated tool.

I know they are trying, but they are failing, and it is getting out of control. What makes it worse are all the people not affected that are acting like it's not a big deal and it's all somehow our fault.

well my account is now restored, so they eventually get to it I suppose.  Although the first time I heard even 1 word from them was almost a week to the date, after the ticket was opened.  Here is the ticket response, again the first and only thing I heard from them

Originally posted by Kuppa

well since you appear to be proliferating your message all over the place Ill copy the same thing I posted to you originally:

 

"lol, this is such a myth. No big company has ever had great customer service. Its a matter of perspective, you get a good customer service exp its great! you get a bad one its horrilbe and everyone is getting screwed."

 

I played the WOW trial, encountered a bug and made a ticket in game.

A GM contacted me after 15 minutes in game as a game character and helped me out. While staying in role (roleplay speak) and being very polite. I'm still baffled by this. I was playing the fricking TRIAL

Originally posted by Myrdynn

Originally posted by Kaynos1972
Worst Customers support ever ?  If i'm counting right, you have waited 1 working day !    Supposed you openned the ticket on friday, that's not full working day so i'm not counting it.  This weeked was the labor day weekeed,  so yesterday (tuesday) was your 1st full working day since you opened the ticket.   Man worst support ever they dont answer in 24 hours.

FWIW, every MMO I have played doesnt only operate their customer service on a 9-5 Est M-F work schedule

IIRC even Blizzard customer service is only open M-F 9-5, and theyve got about 10x the staff and make millions per month off of subs.

The only problem I have with them is that once your cc details are stored in the gemshop, you can not, in any way, delete those details. They have the credit card information and you have no way to make them delete it, cept perhaps try support, which is backlogged to high hell.

I dont know if this is common. I played other NCsoft titles and Ive allways been able to unstore cc details, and add another or simply pay and then delete the details.

Anyway, Im pretty sure there is some protection act that requires, by law, that any person can have their credit details deleted from any online service provider if they want to, in a timely manner. - I think its strange that they want to funnel even more traffic to their support for such basic things.

Originally posted by Nilenya

The only problem I have with them is that once your cc details are stored in the gemshop, you can not, in any way, delete those details. They have the credit card information and you have no way to make them delete it, cept perhaps try support, which is backlogged to high hell.

 

I dont know if this is common. I played other NCsoft titles and Ive allways been able to unstore cc details, and add another or simply pay and then delete the details.

 

Anyway, Im pretty sure there is some protection act that requires, by law, that any person can have their credit details deleted from any online service provider if they want to, in a timely manner. - I think its strange that they want to funnel even more traffic to their support for such basic things.

You might want to check with your bank, a lot of them now offer CC aliases that are 1 time use. They work and authorize like your normal CC#, but once it has a single authorized purchase on it (or after 15 minutes of being generated) the number no longer works. My credit union started doing this program and it works well. And if I am not mistaken, Bank of America also does it. It would be away around issues like the gem shop retaining your exact billing info.

Originally posted by emperorwings
Edit the ticket you have and put in it that you got hacked. I can guarantee you it will be rectified within 5 hours or if not that same day.

lol not really