Thanks for the great find in their offical forums Nadia.  Very scary that they can not roll back toons.  

Thanks to all of you who have posted, some great reads there.  Seems thanks to Nadia we have an answer.  At least we know that we have to be extra careful with our game security.  

To Thane, that was a very funny post.  I was laughing on that one.  True dat,  so many folks write some pretty stupid tickets.

Howdy folks!

I don't post often.  I spend most of my time readying forums to gain information about games I play, so I have never been much of a poster, even if I really do not like a game.  I have been having a great time playing GW2.  As I have gotten older I have become more casual in my gaming ( my days of raiding like we did way back in MC wow are over ), so this game is a great fit.  I play with a very serious wow player, she has loved the game as much as I have except for one issue.  A few weeks back she had been hacked, and came into the game to find all of her toons looted.  Being hacked has become part of the gaming landscape, and I am sure no one is supprised folks are hacked in a new game.  What bothers me is not the security issues of the hacking, it is the customer service response that she got from GW2.  The response from customer service was that they could do nothing to help her.  This to me is very scary as an mmo gammer.  I was hacked in wow a while back, and it sucked.  log in and find the toon you have been working for a very long time to be altered by others is never a good feeling.  In wow it seems that getting hacked is something they take seriously.  It was my fault that I got hacked (darn sure it was a keylogger).  However, wow customer service did not care about fault, they just tried to make my toon right again.  My friend's response from customer service with GW2 was, you are out of luck....thank you for playing.  With such a divergence in customer support philosophies I am sure GW2 will be taking a hit.  My friend said one thing to me the other night that scared me, "if it happens again I am going back to wow".  It scares me since I would have go back as well, If it can happen to her it can happen to me.  I would hate to have to leave a game due to a customer service issue.  Security of our toons is something any  mmo gamer wants.  I think this is an issue GW2 needs to take a closer look at, or some good folk will be heading in other directions, and that would be sad........this is a realy good game.  

07/15/20012 at 3:pm Eastern time

I think it will be in July

Before Christmas I felt like there was nothing to play.  With Tera, guild wars, secret worlds, and [insert] what I dont know.  The mmo world is certainly looking up!

I have to say that I disagree withe the OP.  

I have been playing this game since the first beta, I am two levels from 50, and I play on the deepwoods pve server.  Nothing, and I repeate nothing the OP commented about is true.  This game is great, and I have been enjoying it.  I have no idea what people like the OP are looking for in a game, but I think they will never find it.  Sounds more like pure MMO burnout.  I would hope that anyone really interested in the game would give it a shot and just play it, instead of listening to crazy peeps like the OP.

I write very few posts, tend to like reading them then responding or authering them.  Just could not read this post without responding.

This is one of the funniest posts I have read on these forums.   I thank you for making my day a little brighter.

 In reading the Onlive post below on this site many of the posts are on the discussion of bandwidth, and Lag.  It seems to me that the miss conception is that there is processing involved with the client (user) end of the connection.  The way I understand the service to work is that the client pc receives nothing more then a video stream of the game.  User control is sent upstream, a video representation of the game downstream.  Does this seem right?  If so, it would then lie in how fast they can get this video stream to respond in time.  There claim is that they have gotten the lag down to 1ms response.  If this is the case, then this service just might be able to pull off what it claims in the area of performance.  

Second is a debate about folks having the needed bandwidth to meet the demands of the stream.  I live in a small town in the panhandle of Texas.  the basic broadband supplied out here by suddenlink is at the 5mbps speed required to run this service at HD quality.  The US over the last few years has been rapidly increasing bandwidth.  Many of the folks in urban areas, and the east have signals far superior to the 5mbps level.  I do not think bandwidth within the united states will be a factor for most.   

The first thing I want to say is that for all of you that Hate funcom I perfectly understand where you are comming from.  I as well was one of those that pre-ordered conan, and spent a few months in the dismall depths of hell playing that game at launch.  This thread is for you as well as for a person interested in giving the game a shot.

The very first thing you should know is that AOC is not a game you can play on any machine, lots are articles out there on specs, so read them before you ever think of playing.  If you have the machine to play this game it is could very well be the best eye candy of any mmo out there.  I used to say that LOTRO was the best game for visuals, but I think with the work they have done on AOC it now exceeds LOTRO in its visual appearence. 

I left AOC because of a few game breakers that I think many will agree on.  First was system Performance.  Second was lack of pve content in a pve game.  Third was what seemed last summer was an unwillingness on the part of  FUNCOM to rapidly get there game into playable shape. 

I started back up just last week, and my goodness what a difference.  First it runs 3 times better than the WAR client I had been playing.  Not only did it not boot me in 10 minutes, but I had great frame rates, which led to some pretty cool immersion in the game.  I have a very nice g card (4870), and when I put it on shader 3.0 I saw an improvment in both framerates and visuals.  Back in the day checking shader 3.0 might have caused your computer to explode.  And, with the graphics working properly in AOC there is nothing like it in any mmo.

Also the server mergers seem to have helped make a community where alot seems to be happening (wiccona).  I see groups forming for dungeon runs all time.  I see many new players asking for help, and getting it.  Just seems to be a much improved community.

If you are tired of whatever you are playing at the current moment, give AOC another shot.   You might not be dissappointed.