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Guild Wars: This is How You Charity 10K Edition

“Pink Day in LA” was a Guild Wars event held this past weekend, encouraging players to dye their armor pink for breast cancer awareness. Malibu Barbie teamed up with Gaming World Entertainment Network and Gamers Giving Back to bring cancer awareness to Guild Wars. Players purchased almost three hundred thousand bottles of pink dye, donating almost eleven thousand dollars in the process.

“I was totally amazed when we hit our original goal of $1,337 early,” Malibu Barbie said.

Thar Be Sales On Steam, Landlubbers!

Updates:

The sale is over. Go home.

↓♣ Aion Standard Edition 33% off ($26.79) Includes 30 days of game time

Champions Online 66% off ($6.79) Includes 30 days of game time.

City of Heroes: Architect Edition 33% off ($13.39) Includes 30 days + City of Villains

Global Agenda 33% off ($26.79) No subscription fee.

Guild Wars Game Of The Year Edition 33% off ($13.39) No subscription fee.

Guild Wars: Factions 33% off ($20.09) No subscription fee.

Guild Wars: Nightfall 33% off ($20.09) No subscription fee.

Guild Wars: Trilogy 33% off ($26.79) No subscription fee + bonus MOX the golem

Lineage 33% off ($6.69) Includes 7 days of game time.

Lineage 2: Gracia Final 33% off ($13.39) Includes 30 days + all expansion packs

↓♣ Star Trek Online 66% off ($16.99) Includes 30 days of game time.

↓♣ Star Trek Online: Digital Deluxe 66% off ($20.09) Includes 30 days + various exclusive items

↓ – “Activation and download may take up to 48 hours after purchase.”
♣ – Paypal is not accepted if paid in pounds or Euros.
♥ – 30 days only applies to new Station accounts.

Guild Wars Mass Ban, Disbanding

456px-Dhuum — "I'm going to kill you with my ban-scythe"

This is Dhuum, he doesn’t like cheaters, hackers, botters, and exploiters. If you cheat, hack, bot, or exploit bugs, Dhuum will find you, and Dhuum will murder you in cold blood. As the God of death, when Dhuum takes your soul, there is no coming back, you are banished from the world of Guild Wars forever.

ArenaNet has announced that they have banned over 3,700 accounts, not to mention disbanding over a dozen guilds, with more on the way. Not only are players being banned, but they are being smitten in-game by the God of Death. See the video.

This isn’t the first NCsoft title to have flashy public executions of botters. Aion is well known to have GM’s personally firebomb chat spammers out of existence.

Guild Wars Five Years: Steam Sale This Week

Here at MMO Fallout, we work diligently to make sure that you have available to you, all of the information and best ways to get your hands on titles for the lowest prices possible. With the fifth anniversary of Guild Wars, Steam is offering the title on sale this week with the following prices, all in USD:

Guild Wars Trilogy ($39.99 $19.99)
Guild Wars GOTY ($19.99 $9.99)
Guild Wars Nightfall ($29.99 $14.99)
Guild Wars: Factions ($29.99 $14.99)

Games are on sale this week, so pick them up!

Guild Wars: Xunlai Tournament House Dies On Operating Table

Guild Wars players are likely fairly angry at the news that, after nearly a year of operational work, the Xunlai Tournament House will not be returning. A web-accessible portion of Guild Wars, the tournament house acted as a betting spot, where players could attempt to predict the outcome of the game’s player vs player tournaments.

“After much analysis and discussion, we’ve decided to permanently retire the Xunlai Tournament House.”

Unfortunately, at one point during ArenaNet’s seven month trump through the game’s code, it was determined that the entire tournament house would need to be rebuilt from scratch, pulling resources away from Guild Wars 2 that could not be afforded.

I don’t think this news is too surprising to Guild Wars players, although the fact that the house died to support Guild Wars 2 may disappoint and anger some, but hey: Stuff happens. More on Guild Wars as it appears.

Your NCsoft Master Account: A Ticking Time Bomb?

I’ve been sitting on this article for a while now, and it seems like the best time as ever to put it forward. NCsoft is currently investigating heavy allegations of massive security holes in the master account system. As I’ve reported before, the number of stolen Guild Wars and Aion accounts has gone up dramatically in the past few months, which NC originally pointed towards a compromised fansite as the source of the theft.

Definitely the most serious, and frightening, of the allegations posted on Guild Wars Guru was that it doesn’t take any skill to hack an NCsoft master account. In fact, according to users, all it takes is spamming log in/log out, and eventually (through the process of happenstance and timing) you may find yourself logged into someone else’s account, able to change passwords, jot down personal details, and clean out accounts without ever being detected.

More after the break…

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Guild Wars Vs Account Theives: Aion To Follow Suit

With 16,000 accounts gone, less queues! — you must be this tall to buy gold.

No, not as in lawsuit. NCsoft’s Guild Wars has been taking several measures to protect accounts from theft, including their most recent venture: Requiring you to name one character on your account in order to log in (meaning I just lost access to my account). Aion, also published by NCsoft, is taking a similar run of reminding players to keep their accounts secure, although for slightly different reasons. Guild Wars has fansites being hacked to worry about, while Aion is more focused on irritated gold farmers.

Aion bans thousands of accounts on a weekly basis and as you can expect, such a move can get pretty costly for gold farmers. The result? Using your accounts to gold farm. It saves cash, and there’s nothing to clean up when the ban hammer drops. Aion has released a security warning to players regarding in-game links being used to phish accounts, as well as the possibility of NCsoft master account theft.

I don’t think players should need to be reminded to be wary of what they click on, but here we are.

New Security Feature: Guild Wars

“one of the trading sites associated with Guild Wars may have experienced a security breach and its account database (including user names and passwords) may be in the hands of hackers.”

This message by ArenaNet earlier this year is the message that players never want to hear, and as history tends to repeat itself, this message came alongside a tidal wave of lost accounts. For the past couple of months, ArenaNet has been working tirelessly to boost the security of the system, and the first changes are finally making their way in-game.

Those of you who log into Guild Wars will notice that there is a new option to fill in. Aside from your username and password, you will have to correctly name one of the characters on your account. ArenaNet is continuing to formulate methods of keeping accounts secure, so this new field is not the only change to come.

Although the new field will help with brute force exploits, it won’t do anything to help one of the leading causes of lost accounts: key loggers. Blizzard had a good idea by introducing the security dongle that changes your password every couple of seconds. As long as you don’t lose the dongle, your account is essentially theft-proof.

More on people with poor account security (using the same password for a game and its much more hack-prone fansite) as it appears.

I Don't Do Reviews, For Good Reason

The Fallen Earth LLC Boardroom — Where we go to discuss Fallen Earth.

If you’re a visitor to mmorpg.com, you’ve probably found yourself stepping into the middle of a controversy. Apparently yesterday’s review of Fallen Earth caused such an uproar that mmorpg.com’s staff saw fit to remove it from the website. I decided to get my super sleuth kit, and by super sleuth kit I mean grabbing part 1 off of Google Cache before it was deleted.

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