Battle.net Authenticator Change (I lol'd)

[Daeri]

I don't know how long an authenticator battery is supposed to last, but in the end, everyone's is going to have to acquire an authenticator for each battle.net account. Well I guess that gives a 2 years respite at most.

[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.

[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.

[Oathbreaker]

I recently removed my authenticator from one of my accounts to troubleshoot an issue with that specific account not logging in correctly. What I want to know is why the hell the authenticator was later removed from the other 10 accounts. I didn't authorize the removal of the authenticator from the other accounts. Talk about almost having a heart attack when I logged in the first time a couple days later and it didn't prompt me for an authenticator.

[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 -

[Ualaa]

Long-term, having one authenticator per battle.net account is not really that big of a deal. $32.50 (assuming the price has not changed) plus a little shipping, every "x" years is not much of an additional cost for a boxer.

Then you glue your authenticator to a piece of wood/rigid cardboard and label or color code them. And can log in, essentially as quickly as you can push your five authenticator buttons and swap your windows.

Or just put up with an artificial 2.5 minute extra delay, to log them all in from the same battle.net account, one after the other.

[Souca]

Then you glue your authenticator to a piece of wood/rigid cardboard and label or color code them. And can log in, essentially as quickly as you can push your five authenticator buttons and swap your windows.

Yea, I'd thought the same thing. Reminds me of the popsicle stick rig someone had for Eve. Wonder how long till there is a guide to boxing the auth?

- Souca -

[outdrsyguy1]

I can login pretty fast, I found that if i just hit my authenticator and write the number down while isboxer's loading up all my screens i'll have about 2 numbers by the time everythings ready. Then just enter those in order and continue on with authenticator, you end up taking about 1.5 mins to login and it works pretty well.