Curse

Riot Narita · Aug 18, 2011, 07:29 AM // 07:29

LOL, nice one.

Just hope you didn't lose any titles from the deleted characters (yours or theirs!), that were not already in your Hall of Monuments.

Chocolate_Prayers · Aug 18, 2011, 07:50 AM // 07:50

I laughed hard. Like many people here I thought this would turn out to be another QQ thread, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Must suck being whoever hacked your account.

HellScreamS · Aug 18, 2011, 07:51 AM // 07:51

O snap I knew I should've moved those on my main when I had the occasion!

Iceblue · Aug 18, 2011, 07:59 AM // 07:59

I still feel bad for you that he deleted your characters

But glad that you can look at the positive side of a bad situation.

Fay Vert · Aug 18, 2011, 08:44 AM // 08:44

Shame ANet never listened and implemented a no-delete option on characters. But just re-create your character again, think of it as reliving the good old time

Horus Moonlight · Aug 18, 2011, 09:12 AM // 09:12

Think of it like Bambi. You can figure out the roles yourself.

Iuris · Aug 18, 2011, 09:57 AM // 09:57

I would really recommend contacting support right now, and letting them know what you found. Sounds to me like an account used to gather the items farmed/botted/scammed from several accounts. So, I'd worry that Anet doesn't get the wrong idea about you and notes that the items are not your own "ill gotten gains".

Chocolate_Prayers · Aug 18, 2011, 11:58 AM // 11:58

OP would still have the emails from contacting NCSoft to have his/her account restored though. This should be enough to prove that he/she did not have access to the account while all the stuff was being siphoned from other victims onto that account. (assuming of course that the items in question were indeed as a result of further scams)

GwOxygen · Aug 18, 2011, 12:05 PM // 12:05

This made my day

chrish16 · Aug 19, 2011, 04:28 AM // 04:28

One word: Epic.

Kula · Aug 19, 2011, 05:27 AM // 05:27

Even if whoever lost all those items wasn't the hacker himself it serves them right for not buying the account from a verified source.

fenix · Aug 19, 2011, 08:49 AM // 08:49

I feel bad for the guy who thought he was buying a legit account, and then suddenly lost all his hard work and stuff.

X-Plosiv · Aug 19, 2011, 09:17 AM // 09:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by fenix

I feel bad for the guy who thought he was buying a legit account, and then suddenly lost all his hard work and stuff.

OMG, stop with crap. No offense, to all.

Random person will have 40 stacks of glittering dust, 30+ golds/greens from Doa, stack of ectos and other things ?

Yes, random person will save all of that.

No.

Romy, epic man!

P.S. Whoever buys account from not legit source, deserve this.

Bristlebane · Aug 19, 2011, 09:45 AM // 09:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by refer

Put it on heros.

All this wealth sickens me. If only they would take that attitude into the REAL WORLD. That's why I don't try to make money in games... just spend very little and instead you have constant profit while just playing the game in general.

It's simple,
you use the money to work on your Hall of Momuments. Buy and dedicate minipets, high end weapons, Zaishen keys, armor sets etc.

I'm sure it was a bot farmer due to the weird names. But I must give you a few warnings! Just because you created entirely new character names doesn't mean they're not known to the hacker. If he have "friended" his stolen accounts, he will see your new name when you login again. Best you can do is just to keep a complicated password that you change monthly.

Coast · Aug 19, 2011, 10:24 AM // 10:24

simple: don't buy accounts from other people

fenix · Aug 19, 2011, 11:10 AM // 11:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by X-Plosiv

OMG, stop with crap. No offense, to all.

Random person will have 40 stacks of glittering dust, 30+ golds/greens from Doa, stack of ectos and other things ?

Yes, random person will save all of that.

No.

Romy, epic man!

P.S. Whoever buys account from not legit source, deserve this.

The OP remembers 40 stacks of Glittering Dust, but not how many ecto? Yeah okay. I call bs.

mattybadger · Aug 19, 2011, 01:37 PM // 13:37

I thought the OP said somewhere they had "a" stack of ecto's and gave the rest to a friend?

Jk Arrow · Aug 19, 2011, 04:25 PM // 16:25

I liked the read OP. Made me smile. I lost an account before so any time you can stick it to the hackers, it's a good thing.

Although monetarily you are making out in the end, I'd rather have my toons than my stuff. Those can always be replaced but the time and titles can't. It makes me hope they have an account rollback feature for GW2.

Romy · Aug 19, 2011, 06:41 PM // 18:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by fenix

The OP remembers 40 stacks of Glittering Dust, but not how many ecto? Yeah okay. I call bs.

LOL - you can call BS if you like. I remembered the Glittering Dust because it took up a couple of vault spaces. The ecto only had a single pile left after I put it in the crafting storage - and I gave it to a friend who was helping me. My goal at the time was just to empty the XxxX alts so I could delete them.

I have always been a very casual player of GW and an altoholic to boot. I have all the expansions, but did not even have a toon at max level when they were deleted. My Ranger was the highest, and I think she was 16 or 17. I had never actually seen ecto before, tbh. And I deleted several green weapons without even thinking about it before my friend asked if they were not rares.

I wish my toons had not been deleted. I was the leader (by default) of a defunct guild (The Dark Blade), and though my guildmates had long quit playing, I liked having the guild name and seeing them when they made occasional reappearances in game. Can't really get that back. And for some reason, the hacker did not bother to keep the birthday minis I had received, so they are gone.

But while I was irritated to find my toons gone, and REALLY irritated that some SOB had hacked my account, I suppose I ended up pretty well off, all told. Just wish he had left me those minis!

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jk Arrow

I liked the read OP. Made me smile. I lost an account before so any time you can stick it to the hackers, it's a good thing.

Although monetarily you are making out in the end, I'd rather have my toons than my stuff. Those can always be replaced but the time and titles can't. It makes me hope they have an account rollback feature for GW2.

I agree, though in my case, it is mostly for the sake of sentiment. None of my deleted toons had any titles to speak of or anything of any particular value, though it was nice having toons that were created when the game went live.

Reverend Dr · Aug 19, 2011, 11:36 PM // 23:36

Hackers turn over accounts, they don't play on them.

Now the guy that was playing on the account should have been at least reasonably aware he was getting a stolen account.

But the person that actually hacked the account was not affected by this in the slightest.