Showing posts with label security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label security. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 August 2010

GW: What A Diff’rence A Space Makes

Post soundtrack: “Space Oddity” by David Bowie

Well, NCSoft’s customer service has gotten back in touch, and it turns out I forgot that Guild Wars character names need to consist of (at least) two parts.  Turns out the character I created was called “Mingle Douse”.  …Sigh…

GW in a nutshell: dated, yet still effective.

Needless to say, I’ve taken the precaution of taking a screenshot with character name showing.  It’s not of ex-Mingle though, who I’ve deleted as befits such a troublesome disposable character.  My new character is a Ranger/Monk called “Kay Pringlerouse”, who is level 5 and busy working through the initial Prophecies content.  (Sadly GW only has the option of humans as your character’s race – I miss the options of most other MMOs)

I’ve also decided to give City of Heroes a try – it was a toss-up between that and Champions Online, but I prefer the scope of CoH’s trial (no apparent content limitations – although there might be some, as I haven’t seen any small print yet – just a 14-day limit) to CO’s demo (limited content, but no time limit).

Unfortunately the downloader for CoH is irritatingly slow, it’s only managing between 50-90kbs, and has been running for about 13 hours so far – needless to say, no fun screenshots to speak of.

Ah well, patience is a virtue.  But then, so is preparation – and GW awaits my attention.

/wave

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

Guild Wars – Beaten By The Log-in Boss

I decided to log into Guild Wars and have another play around.  When I tried to do so, I found out that NCSoft have added a new security question to the login screen:  Name one of the characters on your account.

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Guess who can’t remember the name of the disposable throw-away character, only created to have a quick play in the game with after buying it on special from Steam?

You know, it’s actually hard to beat this security question – I mean, it’s my own account yet I’m unable to compromise it myself.

Seriously, NCSoft.  You didn’t even think to warn existing account-holders of this change coming, before it went live?  And I feel sorry for players who’ve been on hiatus who may just get caught out by this as well. (Grrrr)

/wave