Authenticator: Will this work?

[Ualaa]

I've been using mine 10+ times a day, for over a year.
The battery is good so far.

I'd guess it is not much of a drain.

Still, authenticators are cheap.
You can easily get an extra or whatever.

[Dooz]

I've been using mine 10+ times a day, for over a year.
The battery is good so far.

I'd guess it is not much of a drain.

Still, authenticators are cheap.
You can easily get an extra or whatever.

Buying an extra is not a problem, you're right they are cheap... though I think they should come with the game. Maybe I wasn't clear, I'm sorry. The fact that I couldn't find a place to replace the battery got me to thinking about failures/loss/destruction. I'm not necessarily worried about battery failure. I'm more worried about loss or destruction. So if I had a few codes stashed away, this could help me log into account management to turn off the authenticators until I could get new ones... so I could play.

Also, I'm guessing you're using the authenticator 10 times a day for each account that you have. What's the reason for that? I've been using the same code across multiple accounts, and it works fine. Is that a bad thing to do?

[ILikeTwins]

You cannot save the numbers that the authenticator generates. Those numbers are randomly generated (every 15 seconds or so I believe) so storing them won't work. The only thing you can do is store the serial number on the authenticator if you lose it so you can get a hold of billing to have them remove it.

I am not sure how a single authenticator code works across multiple accounts for you unless you don't have a battle.net account yet. It never lets me log in to multiple accounts using the same code.

[emps]

I am not sure how a single authenticator code works across multiple accounts for you unless you don't have a battle.net account yet. It never lets me log in to multiple accounts using the same code.

Same here. Used to be able to do it across all my accounts in the beginning.