Far Shiverpeaks

Fixed

Hi,

I recently bought a new pc and tried to link my gw2 and ts3 account to it. It was previously linked on my older pc and now when i try it on my new pc it says my account is being used somewhere else. Which to my knowledge it isnt.

No idea what to do now. 

If you can, try and regain access to your other forum user https://farshiverpeaks.com/index.php?action=profile;u=10279

That one still has access.

Once you got access, all you need to do, is press the link from the bot in ts, while being logged into the forum and it will give you access on ts

If you can't do that, send me a msg and i will help you out

Having issues linking my API as well. If I enter the key as I get it from the Arenanet site, it won't accept it. If I add FarShiverpeaksAPIKey- in front, it says incorrect. Not entirely sure what to do with that string. My API in full is C570D326-C182-9347-9061-B1A5EB8059D244AABEF6-2F3E-4408-99C3-24371A7E976A

Thanks.

You need to name your api key what it says you need to name it, not append it to the actual api key

I can see from the api key you provided that you didn't give it a name when you made it
When you make a new API key on the api key creation page, you have the option to give it a name
I took a picture and highlighted the area where you need to type in the name



PS i recommend you delete the api key you shared with us here in public, as others can use it to see details about your account (nothing sensitive, just normally a good idea not to share it)

No it doesn't when you already have permission

I added your forum user to your ts/gw2 account

GW2 api should be back online

Hi all,
I am facing the same issue :
"I try to authenticate my API for ts3. When I add the API key it tells me that it's successfully added, but then nothing happens. The API integration table stays empty."

I had an account ages ago so my key might be linked to my previous account.
Could you please move it to this brand new one ?

Thanks & Regards

Mosquito.3658

Fixed

Not entirely relevant but is this only an issue for people who registered their API TS only?
If that's the case maybe we can give the website priority in the sense that the system would be willing to write the API to a new account as long as it's a website account and the old was a TS account only.

With the thought that website accounts are easily recoverable. It can only be done once so I don't think it compromises security.
Though this all is just a random thought which might be technically challenging.

The issue is simply the restriction that a gw2 account can only be linked once, meaning you cannot transfer ownership of the gw2 account.

You can change the link, as long as the owner of the link does it, e.g. you can move it from one ts user to another using the website, as the website user is an owner.

It isn't only a problem for people only linking their ts, however it increases the likelihood of loosing ownership, as only the ts identity is an anchor, which is easily lost when reinstalling. Some also looses it because they forget they have a website account

The amount of people reporting this issue now is funny though, as this has always been a restriction, so i suspect a lot of people are coming back to the game to find they have reinstalled ts.
I might end up changing this, but i wont get to it until sometime in october

The issue is that it doesn't show the original error, telling you that your api key is already in use, but instead continues until it fails later. I looked into it for a little bit, but couldn't figure out why at the time

However as alwies said, if your api key is already used by another user, an admin needs to move that api key to your user