Battle.net Authenticator Change (I lol'd)

[Dor]

guessing the gold farmers are attaching all thier stolen accts to 1 auth?

[Korruptor]

I think they are just trying to cut back on support calls related to this issue. From a tech support perspective I don't blame them.

[glo]

guessing the gold farmers are attaching all thier stolen accts to 1 auth?

Yep.

Keylogger then add an authenticator and they have plenty of time to clean out the account before the user can regain access.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

guessing the gold farmers are attaching all thier stolen accts to 1 auth?

This is the most likely answer.

[Souca]

This is the most likely answer.

Seconded. Since Blizzard controls the only source of the auths, I'm guessing this is designed to allow them to have more control over who buys auths. Not sure that they would ever follow up on this, but it's a possibility.

Another thing they will be able to do after this is to burn auth serials if they are associated with a hacking, forcing the hacker to have to not only get a new b.net account, but also to have to get a new auth.

Without seeing the internal data they are using to make this decision, it's really hard to gauge if it's a good or a bad idea. Considering that the majority of players only have one b.net account, it was likely seen as a low impact on the playerbase.

- Souca -