Wouldn’t this be a really simple fix for the real people out there suffering from being restricted in their legitimate gameplay??? Please consider this blizzard. You can easily detect who is authenticated and who is not and can tie that to whether the daily limit is imposed or not.
Simple stuff.
Actually not a bad idea. Sure some bots may use Authenticators but not half bad.
yeah, having to get a new phone number for each new botting account seems like it might actually be a little more effective than limiting instance lockouts. Instance lockouts don’t hurt RMT farmers in any way, especially since they are per realm.
I kinda feel like there’s an ulterior motive for this change, as I can’t see why they think this would actually fix anything or even help. All it does is hurt people who are legitimate and only have one account to play on with limited days per week to play.
Blizzard going FULL eastern MMO design, 30 lockouts a day but… The cash shop has more things
OH GOD, JUST FORCE THE AUTHENTICATOR ON EVERYONE.
Without an authenticator you can’t log in.
And if an account is banned, the phone number is banned.
There, bots solved forever.
Seems like an easily acceptable means for any legit player.
There is far too much reason and logic in this thread.
Would now be a bad time to mention ‘those MMOs’ usually have a cash shop item to “buy tickets” for going beyond the daily limit; one ticket, for one extra entry?
First of all – very good suggestion to Blizzard. Thanks.
In my limited opinion, this won’t work and isn’t a “complete fix”. Here is why: it assumes that botters cannot get authenticators. Why? That makes no sense to me. Last I heard, ANYONE can get an authenticator, and ANYONE can bot.
Phone numbers? Every crime drama I’ve ever read talks about “cheap burner phones”. Why can’t cheaters use those, and have many phones, none of them traceable?
But this is still a good suggestion. Maybe Blizzard can “work around” any problems I think it has. Maybe I’m wrong.
Anything that helps Blizzard fight botters is good.
All of those phones and the bills needed to acquire those numbers would go toward stopping people from botting. Every layer of protection helps.
Only protection you need is a charizard card
Well… you actually don’t need a phone per-say for it. You can just use BlueStacks and a free voip option.
But adding this would deter some of the bots to be sure.
Ah, yea I forget about the many ,many apps for false IPs these days. Still this would add some actual difficulty in starting up as you would need to know how to exploit your phone to authenticate several accounts within a reasonable amount of time.
The authenticator got hacked like 10 years ago when it came out so I don’t trust it and I never have.
Thing is though authenticators prevent the stealing of accounts by forcing you to have not only the players password account name as well as their phone.
So yes it really would help. If botters are using legit accounts with legit credit cards, and legit phone numbers things would get awful expensive for them come ban wave time.
You’re salary would cost Bobby a yacht or two.
Too smart of an idea.
Blizzard wants this post to be buried I’m sorry guys they don’t care about solving problems like botting and hacking.
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This needs to be considered