User talk:Dbomacon

Guild Wars, NCSoft, and Area Net are scammers who rip people off. I played Guild Wars for over a year. I had 4 level 20 characters. Elite armour on all, a chest full of gold customised weapons and several green weapons. All my heroes armour were tricked out with ruins and scrolls for max health. Last May, someone hacked my account and deleted all of my characters. I know the person who did this, LeeAnnFial, she runs the WOLF guild which we actually started together. I built up the guild hall myself. I don't know how she got my password, but she got into my account and deleted all my characters, stole all of my gold and weapons. Guild Wars has done nothing to resolve this issue. Don't these idiots keep back ups? I have contacted Guild Wars support several timnes and they have been less than helpful. They even went so far as to say that it is my fault my account was hacked. I have never given my password to anyone and never shared my account. I don't know how this person got my password, but Guild Wars support refuses to take any action on this issue. I would urge all players to boycott Guild Wars, Area Net, and NC Soft. I will never purchase any of their products again. &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ddomacon (contribs).
 * It sucks, but there's nothing anyone on this wiki can do about it, and I really doubt anybody is going to boycot Anet over this.
 * That said, a lot of the time someone gets "hacked" it is their own fault and they could have avoided it if they had been more careful. &mdash; Viruzzz 08:04, 24 April 2011 (UTC)


 * While it does massively suck to get hacked, I don't think it is reasonable to expect ArenaNet to keep backups of every character, item and armor piece on every account. Yes, hard drive space is cheap.. If you need 1 Terabyte. Pretty sure they'd need noticably more than that, and they'd need to connect that to the power net as well, and keep it running 24/7 for years. That's just a lot of money for the few people that are hacked. If those people were paying a monthly fee, it would of course be much more feasible, but ANet doesn't demand users to pay 100 dollars per year just to play (at that rate, GW would have cost me over 700 dollars!). Additionally, re-creating the account would effectively duplicate the lost equipment, which can be abused. Have a friend 'hack' you, steal your Obsidian Edge/etc., and have it re-created by ANet. Voici, two Obs Edges.
 * Regardless, best of luck, and I hope you'll find a different quality MMO that doesn't tax you monthly either. --Vipermagi 13:54, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
 * You have to remember that a full GW account (all campaigns+EoTN) can cost you as little as $40 (trilogy, eotn expansion), funding your game service, server space for skills/titles/etc, and backups of everything would be asking a lot. They /can/ give your stuff back with a server rollback, but I'd say enough time has passed for it to not be feasible anymore.  If it was, say, 15minutes maybe, but not not. ∵Scythe∵ 15:22, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

To heck with online gaming. I just bought me a Honda Shadow 750 Street cruiser. I'll be cruising the open roads, just looking for a good time, man. Live Free; Ride Hard.