I think the tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to OP’s brain.
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Thank you for admitting it had no reason to be on the WoW forums. It only took a grand total of way too long for you to cough up to what everyone assumed you were doing from the beginning.
You can own multiple cell phones and the one you use for the WoW Authenticator app will work just fine if you use wi-fi to install it.
Do you expect anyone to take your comments seriously when you aren’t even capable of proper grammar?
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Heck yeah and I love mine.
Trying to help. Shall I also shoo these hooligans off your lawn?
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The hyphenation of anything ‘phone’ has me wondering about OP’s age and comfort level with technology.
Smartphone becomes Smart-Phone
Cell phone becomes Cell-phone
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What are you, stuck in the 90’s? You don’t have an email address in 2019? That one’s on you my friend, not Blizz.
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Yeah, I had a very similar thought.
Plus, OP seems to be CONVINCED that our lives aren’t already ruled by technology. Like, what?
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Yeah, this is some ForwardsFromGrandma crap.
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@OP reason easy to judge is because if you could afford it you wouldn’t be on forum whining about it. Simple as that. Good luck OP.
Again: Times have changed. Move with it or get left in the dust. Tech is everywhere and it be here to stay.
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Here is a nice workaround. Get free Virtual Machine software install Android OS and install the Blizzard Authenticator and you are good to go.
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Yes Tech is here to stay, but that does not mean that discussing the restrictions that should be placed on such tech in the interest of protecting a consumer, or the safeguards that should exist to protect a company such as Activision Blizzard from the demands of a bigger one; is not a worthwhile discussion to have.
You should look up the Sherman Act. It came into being for a reason.
The old physical authenticator was good for its time. Its time has passed. There are better ways to provide the same level of security using the mobile authenticator or a physical key like Yubikey which some other online games use.
I’d prefer Yubikey because it doesn’t require any code to be entered but most players won’t fork over $20+ for a Yubikey unless they have other uses for it outside WoW.
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You mean like logging into Windows? Or your bank’s website? or 1,000s of other websites using your browser?
How did we make the leap from Blizzard discontinuing the physical authenticator to antitrust law?
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Small jump from a company retiring their physical authenticator to making it look like they’re doing it to be able to install an app on your phone to make it so now that they could spy you with it like other big companies like google and apple already do. The stretch is long.
Imagine using a personal computer to play an online game on some sort of high speed internet with other players from all around the world and somehow being anti tech at the same time.
What kind of hoops does your brain have to jump through to end up like that?
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I dunno, if that’s the extent of your counter argument I’d say I’m doing pretty well. Thanks for the concern though. As for Mokrawr’s statement, I don’t think it’s a bad thing to discuss the subject. It takes some pretty heavy reaching though to somehow paint a person as being anti-tech, when it’s not been brought up once.
The idea of there being restrictions in place to protect companies like Blizzard, or individuals and their interests down the road however? I think that is very much a good thing to discuss, and if you can’t see that… I doubt I have any words that would make you consider otherwise.
Unfortunately not many consumers use Yubikeys yet. Windows? No Hello, no Yubikey. Banks? Definitely not supported by many financial institutions. “1,000s of other websites”? Google is all in with Gmail, Docs, Sheets, etc. support. Microsoft? I don’t think they enable Yubikey for outlook. com, not the free version anyway. Ditto yahoo. com, amazon. com, and so on.
But more relevant, some major video games do support Yubikey.