Mandatory Authenticators?

[Ualaa]

I have five B.Net accounts, one wow per B.Net account.
A single code, from one authenticator gets me into the game.

I would tend to think, they'll include an authenticator in the Cataclysm Expansion box.
But that's purely a guess.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Authenticator sucks big time, it protects your account 100% but man when you have 5 different bnet accounts. You need to do a new code for each one.

Just like the above poster said its like 5-8 minutes to just log in

Wait, so you're saying that the authenticator sucks because you can't be bothered to enter a different bit of text once when registering the accounts? Sounds like the problem is with people being lazy rather than any physical problem with the devices. Yeah, yeah, caveat that this wasn't well known when it started but I mean damn. It's not like this info is new, or exceptionally difficult to get reconfigured.

[Fizzler]

After using the authenticator a few times today it is a very small annoyance. 3 minutes tops to log in no biggie I could see where it would be more of an annoyance if you have a few disco's a night. All in all I would rather have 1 BNET account to manage 5 accounts than to 5 BNET accounts I should have gotten the authenticator a long time ago.

[Khatovar]

I disabled it again. It sucks big time. Take 5minutes to login with 5 accounts because it constantly says the info entered is not correct on 2-3-4 of the accounts while I login at the same time.

It's really not that horrible. I log in one, by the time I'm loaded in, the code is ready for the next toon. I log in my alchemists first and by the time my gem transmutes are done, all my toons are in.

[Allestaria]

I have pen and paper ready for when I go to log in. I'll start inner space write down a code. Start the wow's loading grab another code. Wow's all loaded grab another code.
So in the same about of time I would be waiting for wow to load I have 3 codes written down and by the time I get to loading the third wow codes reset and I'm good for the 4th and final code needed.

I have tried writting down several codes ( inorder or it doesn't work) but it seems they are only good for a certain amount of time. If that time passes you can't use them.
But as a just incase. While playing I'll write down codes for emergancy dc's. Usually about every hour or so.

[Seldum]

I have come to live with the authenticator as my accounts is all ties to the same bnet account.

I prefer the longer logintime compared to having all my stuff destroyed and having to wait for Blizzard to restore it all. It's also my 5 cent in preventing the gold sellers getting hold of my gold.

I think blizzard should put an authenticator in the next expansion pack and live with the initial cost. In the long run they will save the cost in reduced support hours(i'm speculating a bit here).

I think it would be unfair to demand an authenticator if they don't give it for free or as a part of the next expansion.

[zanthor]

I for one thought they would do this with WotLK... I was stunned that they didn't.

The carepackage thing is jank. If I lost my account right now I'd lose over 50K gold, materials, months of gearing up including a legendary and full ToC gear... I would be livid if blizzard suggested I take a few days of badges and a pittance of cash to compensate.

[Shabu42]

I just recently started using mine, and I mean really, you guys spent $200 to set these accounts up, why not take 3 minutes to ensure security? You get into a rhythm of typing them in

[Bigfish]

My concern is two fold:

1. Are they going to have enough authenticators to go around?

2. Are authenticators going to be sold in retail stores, so people don't have to order them over the internet?

I can understand the decision to make them mandatory. I mean, they're paying how many people to restore accounts? That is a cost that could easily be eliminated if people took better security measures on their own.

Now, what really interests me is whether they are going to lower the price of the authenticator to at-cost, since this is really a statement that the authenticator benefits Blizzard more than the player base, and whether newly minted copies of WoW are going to come with one as standard.

Edit: Oh yes, and I'm curious how subscription numbers are going to look when this gets implemented. That's a potentially large amount of rigamarol to keep playing a game. For the average player anyway. Multiboxers should be used to this sort of thing by now.

[Coltimar]

I have have two authenticators. I stagger them so I go back and forth when I log in. I don't have to wait the unbearable 30 seconds for the CD that way :/ I want one for my Blackberry :/