Yeah and even if you buy a tracfone, the number will expire and then you’re locked out of the account if it ever asks for your number and then you gotta call customer service anyhow.
Unless, of course, you keep paying the $20/mo to keep the tracfone running. Same with stuff like StraightTalk.
Blizzard eventually stops supporting low tech PCs, why do you think they’d continue to support security measures they stopped manufacturing years ago?
It’s not Blizzard’s responsibility to make sure you have the tech available to secure your account. That’s up to you.
I mean, I have a smartphone, but I definitely don’t need it for anything I do in my daily life. It’s fun to play around with but not necessary.
The problem with this, is there are other options, such as email 2FA that even institutions like banks use, that work perfectly fine.
Phones aren’t the only way to do 2FA.
OK so maybe they decided to stop making Keyfobs… there are other ways.
Use GoogleFi… Just need a month to set things up. Contracts aren’t very good anyway.
Though, I guess it doesn’t matter. I have an authenticator and can use the features. Best of luck to you.
I bought a new physical Authenticator from Amazon. Took about 3 weeks to get it but I attached it to my account and it works just fine. The label is blue.
I just checked and it is still available. search WoW Authenticator.
Those are overstock and they will eventually run out.
That, and I’m not sure I’d trust it, you probably got some hacker out there with a bunch of those numbers in a database and they can try generating a few a day until they figure out which one belongs to a certain account or something.
that isn’t free either - seems like $17 per month and I am in Canada so who knows if it isn’t even available. Plus it says nothing about giving you a phone number and the phone number would have to be in Canada to work.
It may be a “huge issue” for you.
… but it’s probably not a “huge issue” for Blizzard, because:
BTW I also use a 43 letter password.
That’s fine. And that’s a choice to live that way. But it’s not a modern lifestyle.
Look, I’m not knocking people who choose to make the sacrifice, their reasons are their own and I respect that.
But society is not slowing down, nor should it. It’s smartphones today, in a decade or two it’ll be self driving cars, in a few more decades, brain interface. We might even witness the AI singularity in our lifetimes.
Avoiding it is folly.
Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe people want to be more secure with their account, and 2FA is really nice, but they don’t want to have to pay $15+ per month just to secure their WoW account and for no other reason?
Like I said a few times in this thread, banks think email 2FA is good enough, and you’d think that a hacker would rather get into your bank account than your WoW account.
Email 2FA is secure enough for banks, but yet not secure enough for WoW?
EDIT: For that matter, Steam thinks email 2FA is “good enough”. They encourage you to use mobile, but yet they don’t require it whatsoever, and they don’t lock features behind it.
I don’t think a key fob alone would work as you also need to have a number on your account. If you have just the authenticator alone you still cant edit you need both.
see below
“Since patch 9.1.5, only accounts that have been secured with a Battle.net Authenticator and Phone Notifications can add custom text to Group Finder listings. After you added an Authenticator and Phone Notifications, it can take up to 30 minutes for the ability to write custom text on the Group Finder to be available, and we recommend that you exit the game and log in again.”
Blizzard doesn’t manufacture these. They bought them from a company called Vasco which is now Onespan. They just had to order more from them they still make them they could even sell them for the same amount they are being charged for them if not more.
From my understanding, a physical authenticator won’t work. It has to have a phone number attached to it.
No, they will start selling phones so you can play diablo immortal on it!
banks are out dated AF with their tech, they dont update until forced to, probably to accommodate people who refuse to keep up with technology. I work for a CC provider providing tech upgrades for banks, banks are notoriously bad at keeping up to date. Dont use them as your baseline
US banks are the worst, I just learned the other day that banks in Canada you can just transfer people money, for free, through the bank, not some external app like Zelle or cashapp
Blizzard will need to add to requirements to play the game a smart phone now!!!
Pretty sure my life is quite modern. xD What are you imagining people need a smartphone for in their daily life?