Battle.NET account + Blizzard Authenticator + today = fail

[Coltimar]

Is it just me or did they change something with the authenticator? I used to be able to log on with all five accounts at once, now it seems the code is only accepted by two windows at most, then I have to enter a new code for two others and so on. Very annoying.

That is the whole point of this post. You should read it. It has drama, suspense, even a little comedy.

[mebben]

That is the whole point of this post. You should read it. It has drama, suspense, even a little comedy.

I'll get some popcorn and see if someone posted a summary somewhere.

[Khatovar]

I missed your point. Your E-mail is already tied to an account. Making your Email into your account name, what changes?

The point is e-mail addresses are shown on tons of websites, easily found and bought and sold to lists every day. If someone got the e-mail address associated with one of my wow accounts before, all I had to deal with was spam. Now someone gets ahold of it, they've got my userid for all 5 of my accounts. Basically, half of your account information is now for sale, not just for WoW, but any past or future Blizzard product that will be force-tied to Battle.net.

Just because some people are smart enough to realize that you should go out and register an entirely new e-mail account that will never, ever be used for anything but logging into WoW doesn't make this secure. Most people are stupid and would think nothing of registering for random new fansite promising beta invites when they only want your e-mail address. Just ask any of those people that were waiting around for thier "free new beta mount testing Blizzard is would having!" the BIizzdevjtiwyr told them to go register for when they got booted off and couldn't get back on. Most people will probably use the same address they've been using since they started playing WoW because that's where all their notifications for WoW crap goes.

[alcattle]

Thank you. I see the point now. I have so many accounts and use different Emails and name, I will know where they got that set of information. But you are right, we are talking about smarter then your average (feral) bear on DB.com, and I have to remember the 50% of WoW users that have trouble spelling their names.

[Khatovar]

On the plus side, you can change the battle.net e-mail address, which is a luxury you don't have with the old userid, so if you signed up with an address that you've used elsewhere, find spam in a new one or have another reason to believe it may be compromised, you can just get a new address and change over.

But still, it's an e-mail address and I dread the weeks following the full changeover. It's going to be back to 10 spam whispers a minute from compromised accounts.

[vikemosabe]

I have been using an authenticator for about 6 months now and it NEVER let me login with more than one character at a time.

[moosejaw]

I got my iPhone this week and today I picked up the mobile authenticator from the apps store. Much more useful than the key fob unit and it has 8 digits instead of 6. There is a timer bar and the number changes automatically without prompting. Three thumbs up!

[Ualaa]

Where can we get the Cole Notes?