Battle.net Authenticator Change (I lol'd)

[Fat Tire]

To help keep Battle.net accounts as secure as possible, we’ve recently changed how Battle.net authenticators can be used. Going forward, Battle.net authenticators can now only be associated with one Battle.net account at a time. No changes are being made to how many game licenses a single Battle.net account can support. You can still have multiple World of Warcraft accounts under a single Battle.net account, for instance, and all game licenses linked with a Battle.net account will still be protected if an authenticator is in use.

Those of you who currently have more than one Battle.net account associated with a single authenticator will be able to maintain your existing setup without needing to do anything. This change will only affect new authenticator attachments. But, if at some point you decide to detach the authenticator from any of your Battle.net accounts for any reason, you won't be able to reattach it if it's already associated with another Battle.net account.

For more information on the Battle.net authenticator and mobile authenticator application (available for free with many mobile carriers), please visit http://us.blizzard.com/support/article/blizzardauth

Q u o t e:
Sounds like a decision you came to based on fiscal demands rather than for the sake of security.

We didn't make this decision to sell more authenticators, if that's what you're implying. The price on them is conveniently low for a reason (if not free on mobile devices).

[Hivetyrant]

Damn, just saw this, and I just added the same authenticator to my bnet accounts

[Slats]

A decent amount of boxers use 5 separate battle.net accounts and 1 authenticator.

This is going to be fun hold times for some people ot get everything on the one account. I have everything on the one account - gonna suck for people who are 10 boxing tho. :/

I guess Icould use my ipad for one account and my HTC Desire for the other if I do 10box?

[Maxion]

They said you won't have to change your existing setup if you already have the same authenticator on multiple battle.net accounts.

But for any future setups, you'll need either multiple authenticators or keeping the wow accounts on one battle.net account *assuming you use 8 or less).

[Ualaa]

Well, have four authenticators currently, five if you count the phone.

At the moment, all five accounts are each on their own B.Net accounts, with a single authenticator getting all of them into game at once.

Once that is no longer an option...

Either have a separate B.Net / Authenticator per account, and have some kind of a system to switch from one to the next... Which gets you a six digit input per account, without delay between them.

Or move towards all of your Warcraft accounts on a single B.Net account, for ease of account management.

[Altsoba]

Or move towards all of your Warcraft accounts on a single B.Net account, for ease of account management.

Is it possible to move wow accounts from a specific Bnet account to another Bnet account?
I'd love to know if and how as well, please.

Cheers Ualaa,
A.

[Vociferate]

Is it possible to move wow accounts from a specific Bnet account to another Bnet account?
I'd love to know if and how as well, please.

Cheers Ualaa,
A.

Yes it is possible, you just need to call Blizzard. To state the obvious, you'll need to be the owner of the account. The names must match, and you must know the secret question & answer for all accounts.

It's an easy thing to do, just tedious if the Blizz rep is a bit slow.

[Hivetyrant]

I believe there are some easy to use emulators out there for authenticators which would allow you to have multiple ones set up on your PC just for WoW

[Boylston]

One Bnet account here, one authenticator currently.

I just wish I could set the key refresh frequency... It takes too damn long to log in a 5-man team.

[Dor]

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