<-- early adopter of the authenticator.

I've never been hacked on my WoW account -- but my Guild Wars account was hacked back in the day. I used to be a major fan -- I averaged 16/hours played per day (yes, this was college) and was ranked 116th in the world. After I was hacked, I haven't been able to play -- it was just too painful to log in and see my characters trashed. GW isn't even a gear-based game, but I had put time into getting my characters the "perfect" looking gear and overnight it was pretty much ruined.

If a $7 device will help prevent that sort of thing from happening again, it's worth its weight in gold to me.

I wouldn't even consider myself a high risk candidate for keyloggers -- I'm smart about what I download and what links I click, I run antivirus and a firewall, I don't fall for phishing emails. However, it's not about my risk in comparison to others -- it's about my personal risk versus gain. I thought about what I personally would feel like if my accounts got hacked and whether or not that's worth $7 and the inconvenience of typing in a number every time I log in. And, to me at least, it's well worth it. Remember that, while Blizzard is generally benevolent about retrieving lost gear/items/gold due to hackers, they don't have to -- it's the user's responsibility to maintain their account security. Restoration can take upwards of a week and sometimes things can't be restored just the way they were.

Anyway, to me it's well worth the "inconvenience" of typing the same number into the login screen (using my multiplexer mwahahaha). Remember -- 1 authenticator can work for multiple accounts. You can share it (the authenticator) with your family, but remember that you need the number from the authenticator every time you log into the game or the armory (the wow forums do not require the authenticator number). Suvega has one for his accounts and I have one for mine since we're not ALWAYS attached at the hip