So no physical authenticators after the 5th?

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Unless you know how to replace a battery…

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So was most of my family that plays

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I thought I remember reading something about when the battery died they died or became inoperable or something of that sort. Was on the old forums.

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Please remove the incorrect physical authenticators from your title.

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Batteries can be replaced… Oh yeah, I have done it.

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well if blizzard has something important to say they can say it on their forums instead of posting it on a dying social media platform.

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How is it dying? it’s still where everyone post everything.

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because their ceo is running it into the ground. in 5 years it wont be around.

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Hate to tell you, but it is a thing. My mother lives in the back of beyond in southern Utah, and they don’t get cell service at her house. Really, they don’t.

She still has a landline, and doesn’t have a cell phone. She doesn’t play WoW anymore, but still, if she did, what is she supposed to do if her physical authenticator ceases to work?

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Make friends with Orctang.

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My banks (and any other company that requires 2 factor authentication) gives choices, so I can have the authentication number sent to my email. I get it, everyone wants phones to be a “must have, or you can’t live life,” but there are still people that don’t have them, and won’t ever.

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So this has nothing to do with a phone number, just an app, right? You don’t need a phone number to use an app just Wi-Fi.

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Blizzard must look out the window and think the whole world looks like Los Angeles .

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But ma custom key descriptions!

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Yes you need a phone number to use the Battlenet app.

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It ask for a phone number when you click to set up one now

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You know the funny thing, I have several bnet accounts that don’t have any authentication other than a password and they have never been hacked.

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The world isn’t slowing down for the few unwilling to keep up with technology

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I think what they are saying is the mobile authenticator app is being discontinued. I didn’t see any where in there a mention of the physical one being ended, just that they are removing the mobile app version.

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I can only attest to what I’ve personally experienced, and that is on a device that had the old mobile authenticator installed I was able to migrate to the new bnet application whether the device had an active phone number at the time of migration or not.

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