Arc Defender

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  • minsheng
    minsheng Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I'm guessing this issue is the reason I can't disable Arc Defender then because I only get this notice http://i60.tinypic.com/2v13ua0.gif

    Edit: Lol well I'm experiencing the same problem, it seems, as the user above me.
  • pennywise29
    pennywise29 Posts: 36 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Here's the PWE "Joke of the year" "We listen to players"

    The runner up is ARC with Defender.

    When it ARC first loaded (after reading I could disable defender a few days ago) Defender loads so I "X" it out instead of logging in. ARC shut down. So I rebooted it, that's when I got this "You need a pin and has been sent to your e-mail". Guess what no e-mail with a pin. I launched ARC on a second account (After reading on the forums how to disable it) and followed the instruction. I kept checking my e-mail for the first account, 6 hours later no e-mail - no pin.

    I just fired up ARC to see if something changed, the first account now logged in then froze. LOL However, there was this nice message at the top of the ARC screen.: "Arc is experiencing performance difficulties. The issue is being investigated."

    We players told ARC was ****, the coding was bad and it wouldn't work. Took you guys adding more **** into it (Defender - which is nothing more than a data miner regardless of what your privacy policy states) for it to be fully demonstrated that it is ****. Don't fix it - just get rid of it.
  • scruncy
    scruncy Posts: 458 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    get only the message * could not complete that request at this time. please try again later* when i try to disable.

    how can you try later if u dont have e-mail anymore?
    and why in god's name isn't it disabled by default?

    That whole thing stinks....
  • Keisari - Raging Tide
    Keisari - Raging Tide Posts: 384 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    We players told ARC was ****, the coding was bad and it wouldn't work. Took you guys adding more **** into it (Defender - which is nothing more than a data miner regardless of what your privacy policy states) for it to be fully demonstrated that it is ****. Don't fix it - just get rid of it.
    scruncy wrote: »
    That whole thing stinks....

    If it indeed ish a data miner(and as it saves IPs, it probably ish kind of), it's probably NSA's covert plot to locate potential locations of major cashers so US government can make exact plans of conquering countries with such rich citizens, starting by saving their CC-infos secretly to first drain their Visas dry. Sounds like a good plan to get monnehs for paying state debts...b:shutup
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  • sparkiesoft
    sparkiesoft Posts: 47
    edited November 2014
    We're experiencing issues with Arc right now, but I don't have any updates (yet) of exactly what's wrong. I'll try and update everyone once I find out what's wrong. (Hopefully by the end of the day, but I'm not too sure)
  • Annalyse - Heavens Tear
    Annalyse - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,618 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    scruncy wrote: »
    why in god's name isn't it disabled by default?

    This...

    Don't fix it - just get rid of it.


    And this.


    I do hope this issue is dealt with soon. This is happening to people I know as well and if it goes to needing email access you are going to be seriously flooded with tickets and many people will no longer be able to play.
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  • rayalonglegs
    rayalonglegs Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    funny all these problems happen on the weekend like fri to monday morning. Alot of other MMORPG are getting denial of service attacks this week and seems like pwi is not void of these attacks. I think this is the usual weekend attack or crash of pwi.
  • laiwaisan
    laiwaisan Posts: 1,123 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I am furious mainly because i knew this was going to happen seriously idjits if it aint broken don't fix it not rocket science
  • Annonrae - Sanctuary
    Annonrae - Sanctuary Posts: 108 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Can't disable it, either. On both my accounts, I keep getting "Arc Defender is offline. Please try again later" messages. Just thought I'd chime in. ^^
  • paralleogram
    paralleogram Posts: 596 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    So how does one disable this defender if it's always offline?
    Here we go again....
  • Evryn - Morai
    Evryn - Morai Posts: 1,437 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Seems that on the Windows XP 64 Bit operating system (yea, I know, rare OS but not as big a resource hog as Vista or Win7) the recent ARC update with the defender prevents ARC from launching PWI. See also: http://pwi-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1726211

    I've submitted a support ticket for the issue since I'm not the only one with the problem. Prolly a small bug, and not critical since you can launch PWI outside of ARC.
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  • hugmachine
    hugmachine Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Well it still won't let me disable it. I followed directions exact so thats not the problem...
    Keeps saying
    Unable to do this at this time.Try again later

    using workaround to play game but now won't be able to redeem the codes till Arc is fixed...
  • CrackKills - Lost City
    CrackKills - Lost City Posts: 28 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    dear non working stupid half finished arc defender GTFO of my computer. stop sending me pins that dont work.
    tip to PWE: fully test your programs before you launch them. hire a team of programmers that know wtf they are doing.

    defender is DISABLED on my computers to avoid this since i play on 4 different computer in the house depending on where i am. and here i am still having to figure out which email to which account and then OMFG the pin you sent me doesnt even WORK.

    are you trying to make people quit? are you trying to make it hard for people to log in? do you want your servers empty? didnt PWE just have a breach of security a few months ago? i am safer with my own security tyvm. now get this program the hell out of my game so i can log in!
  • Vanflyheight - Heavens Tear
    Vanflyheight - Heavens Tear Posts: 420 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The original client was alot better than this arc garbage,

    1. pw shouldnt of released it to begin with

    2. pw should remove and trash it into the bin of stupid ideas.

    3. Fix the game itself instead of trying to make improvements that arent needed.
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  • ooschi
    ooschi Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    why i don't receive pin in my email?
  • Annalyse - Heavens Tear
    Annalyse - Heavens Tear Posts: 2,618 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    We're experiencing issues with Arc right now, but I don't have any updates (yet) of exactly what's wrong. I'll try and update everyone once I find out what's wrong. (Hopefully by the end of the day, but I'm not too sure)

    So Sparkie, you posted this a week ago... I guess "by the end of the day" was way too hopeful but is there still nothing to say about this? Can you not just disable the program somehow until you get it fixed?

    Or, better yet, remove it all together.
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    Annalyse (veno) - Melosa (cleric) - Glynneth (archer) - Pickerel (sin)
    Florafang (wiz) - RubixCube (barb) - Laravell (psy) - Diviah (Mystic)
    Torchwood (BM) - Sataea (Seeker) - Wystera (Sin) - Allissere (SB)

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  • Groovypoppet - Dreamweaver
    Groovypoppet - Dreamweaver Posts: 65 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Seems to be working for me. I was able to deactivate it on my accounts.
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  • Annastasia - Lost City
    Annastasia - Lost City Posts: 183 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    GET

    RID

    OF

    ARC

    DEFENDER!!!


    thank you very much. i hate it and it makes me want to go play that other game that we cant say the name of here.
  • DeffyNature - Archosaur
    DeffyNature - Archosaur Posts: 1,400 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I have a couple of friends that aren't able to play anymore, because they had made their accounts 3-4 years ago, they don't have access to the e-mails used, since those were closed down, they also cannot change the e-mails from the Arc Games site because of an error, apparently, and support has told them nothing but go to the site and change it; today, said friends cannot bypass Defender, since it asks for the pin sent to the associated e-mail.
    At this point, is it even worth it to tell them to send in another ticket?
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  • ShadowIH - Raging Tide
    ShadowIH - Raging Tide Posts: 40 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I have a couple of friends that aren't able to play anymore, because they had made their accounts 3-4 years ago, they don't have access to the e-mails used, since those were closed down, they also cannot change the e-mails from the Arc Games site because of an error, apparently, and support has told them nothing but go to the site and change it; today, said friends cannot bypass Defender, since it asks for the pin sent to the associated e-mail.
    At this point, is it even worth it to tell them to send in another ticket?

    Definitely it is not fault of pwi staff.

    If player can't prove, that some account is his/her own, then this is problem of the player.
  • Mosz - Heavens Tear
    Mosz - Heavens Tear Posts: 3,181 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Definitely it is not fault of pwi staff.

    If player can't prove, that some account is his/her own, then this is problem of the player.

    pwe's fault of only 1 account per email addy
  • Cotillion - Dreamweaver
    Cotillion - Dreamweaver Posts: 671 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    pwe's fault of only 1 account per email addy
    This is pretty common practice and grasping at straws to blame PWE for personal negligence in keeping track of ones own information.
    Countless websites, games and online services will not allow you to sign-up more than one email address per account.
    That's not to say there aren't some that do allow it, but its far from being an exclusive policy to PWE.
  • Xainou - Sanctuary
    Xainou - Sanctuary Posts: 5,369 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    pwe's fault of only 1 account per email addy

    Or your fault for using an email provider that only let's you have a single address. b:chuckle
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  • Asone - Raging Tide
    Asone - Raging Tide Posts: 792 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    As far as I know it is now working. I was able to disable the defender my all my accounts a few days ago.
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  • opkossy
    opkossy Posts: 11,177 Community Moderator
    edited December 2014
    sontzu wrote: »
    Nope, still not working for me

    Literally just disabled it on a couple of accounts.
    (Insert fancy image here)
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  • hugmachine
    hugmachine Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    still can't disable it.
    trying to work with support but they seem to think its my puter.
    done everything they wanted and still no joy.
    they need to get rid of defender its junk..................
  • ykc
    ykc Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    any way to reset arc defender permissions? (as delete current to add new one?) without security number?
  • hugmachine
    hugmachine Posts: 43 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    finally got it disabled but had to go thru support to do it.
    still have dozens of peeps in the faction that need it disabled tho so that sucks.
    wish they would disable it by default....

    Notice OPKossy no personal info in this post


    ok first off go to arc and attempt to disable defender, then take screenshot of the results.
    then go to paint and save it as jpg .
    then create a support ticket attaching this screenshot to it.

    follow their directions, if first set doesn't work then next step is harder but doable if you know the email addy you signed up with, just fill in what they want and they will disable defender for you.