It started as a surprise. Guild Wars players reported suddenly finding themselves hacked, their accounts cleaned out, no indication of what could have caused the problem. NCsoft and ArenaNet offered suggestions, security safeguards, new measures being taken, hints that the problem lay in a popular third-party website with an undisclosed name. But with the recent rash of problems that Aion players have been having regarding security, new facts have begun coming to light, and they paint a picture that isn't pretty.
The release date and other details have been revealed for The Complete Art of Guild Wars.
Guild Wars is an MMORPG that has been in maintenance mode with no official support for years, but the game's economy is fairly stable, most PvP activities are still accessible and even Auction House-like services exist - thanks to bots.
Now here is a pleasant surprise. ArenaNET has released a brand new patch for the first Guild Wars game, adding some new graphics settings/options. According to the release notes, this new update adds support for windowed Fullscreen, a new 8X MSAA anti-aliasing option, and a new “Advanced” option checkbox.
From a person that deals with developing user-access systems similar to MMOs, when an instance of issues arises you automatically see what additional measures you can implement to help track and fool scripts that hackers use on your own system even if it isn't your fault.