I had my first encounter with a suspension due to unauthorized log-in attempts today and although I’m confident that support will help me resolve the issue and get my account back, I’m wondering about future log-in attempts.
I use a unique password for each of my accounts and I believe that really saved me this time but these attempts seem to be horribly common even according to Mike O’Brien’s message about account security. He mentioned that they could see attempts using specific usernames with specific passwords in attempts trying to find a match where people have been reusing passwords.
I have to ask, wouldn’t it save a lot of headaches if GW2 used more unique account names? I was hopeful for this when creating my account here but everyone on the forums and in-game can see my account name. Even using emails which are hidden can be horrible for an alternate choice because emails are used all over the place. Like using a gmail account would link your email, youtube, guild wars and guild wars 2 accounts all together—at the least—especially if you have your two games linked to utilize the HoM bonuses.
I’d really recommend and like to see hidden and unique usernames for logging-in to the game. Just a thought/suggestion.
