Ayyy, we’re on the same realm! Mail me your stuff before you go. Please and thank you!
Hopefully the good folks in this thread already covered it but the OP is incorrect and the thread title is incorrect.
The change is to integrate the Mobile Authenticator App into the Battlenet App.
This does not impact Physical Authenticators in any way. You can keep using it until the battery dies.
There is a pinned post on the Customer Support forum that has been up a long time. If you have questions, feel free to ask them on the CS forum. It serves as an Information Desk. All the details are here 
P.S. I still use my physical keychain Auth too. I have it set up with SMS service though so that I can remove it myself when the battery dies. That means Blizzard can send me text messages. Which works even in low service areas if you head out to collect messages when needed.
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Thank goodness. I don’t want to download stuff onto my phone, lol.
Even though physical will still exist, I will say one thing. Blizzard really needs to support other, better, authenticators. Having to use their proprietary garbage is no bueno.
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But you got internet… just put a wi-fu hub anthena on your computer to share internet or put a modem… what kind of logic is that. People like you be weird.
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??? No?
WoW is like dead average in terms of required specs, leaning down, not up.
It doesn’t play on a total toaster like it did in the past, but you’re acting like it’s on the upper end and it absolutely is not. Slap on the HD Plugin on Oldschool Runescape and I get worse performance than I do in WoW. I had to read up on crap to get Baldur’s Gate 3 functioning without stuttering all the time. I can’t play Starfield despite it looking like it was made in 2012. Never have an issue with WoW.
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Now that Microsoft owns it, how much longer will that be the case, though?
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If you have internet to play wow then you have the ability to get wifi.
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we broke down and got ourselves mobiles.
we calculated that with our long-distance plan (we live outside the city from the rest of the family) it actually came to only a few dollars’ difference whether we kept the landline with one cell phone (my husband needs his for work, he’s on the road a lot), or if we got two cell phones on a couples plan.
We went with Simply Connect here in Québec, works out to around $50/month. It was the absolute cheapest we could find. (It frustrates me to read americano-centric posters who go on and on about how you can get a cell phone for $20. No, you can’t, not everywhere.)
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actually here in wisconsin unless you basically live on disability,etc you cant even get it for that. 10$ phones are only for people who make next to nothing a year.
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I’d be far more worried about Microsoft upping the required version of Windows rather than worrying about an authenticator. Companies tend to stress out over things that can make or cost them money rather than pursue policies that have them reading forums and laughing themselves silly.
Microsoft is going to be all about growing their cloud based gaming infrastructure and they are getting WoW as part of the deal rather than them specifically wanting WoW.
It had a question mark so how is that incorrect?
Also sorry this post turned into what it did. I just don’t think everyone is being considered here when it comes to the authenticator system and there are better options.
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Well, duh. It would be far too difficult to cater to every single player. They do what’s best for the majority of the player base, and the fact is, most of the player base doesn’t have an issue with more security for their WoW account.
Probably not going to go well between people that quit playing and eventually come back after the change, but hey companies gonna do what companies do.
Unlikely it will work, and even older smartphones may not work because they don’t have the ‘os’ companies want.
People don’t like it being tethered to a phone number because when you’re caught cheating they will ban all accounts linked to the same phone number, instead of one socket puppet.
so you’re making up fictitious people over which to start a forum argument against blizzard?
ok
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I live in farm country Ohio. Go further out from my development and into the farmlands… there is no cell service. I drive through dead areas in farmland all the time. It’s not made up.
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so where to start here?
- this isn’t how bans work.
- good job ignoring all the other arguments.
- good job ignoring any other potential reason it could possibly be.
- nice strawman.
5.there’s numerous ways to bypass a phone number ban bro.
DISCOURSE SERIOUSLY! do you not know how to count past 4?
Windows 10 ends software support updates on October 14, 2025 and I believe you’ll have to pay for updates for a period after that so, we will all need to change that at some stage (if you’ve been slow to update to latest system like me), as for the mobile requirements in the future. I believe EVERYONE will have to use a device of some kind to get access to everything in life in the not-too-distant future.
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If its 3g then it will NOT work here in Australia, they are turning 3g off in the new year. I assume all countries have or are starting to shut down 3g services to allow for better speeds for 4g and 5g services.