No Authenticator, No Diablo III Cash Auction House

[Epona]

This absolutely is Blizzards fault. They forced everyone to play online, they apparently have a system that let's people trial and error their way into your account and they didn't include the required authenticator with the game.

I have many internet accounts, bank accounts, forum accounts and game accounts but battle.net is the only account I have hacked and it has been hacked twice. Bnet is the only account that needs an authenticator.

I would bet that most people who got hacked/compromised have never fallen for any email scams and don't tell the world what their bnet ID and password is.

The users are to blame in one way though, they bought Diablo III, we were obviously foolish for doing that.

CAPTCHA: I can't describe brands I have never heard of.

 

[Eri]

This absolutely is Blizzards fault. They forced everyone to play online, they apparently have a system that let's people trial and error their way into your account and they didn't include the required authenticator with the game.

I have many internet accounts, bank accounts, forum accounts and game accounts but battle.net is the only account I have hacked and it has been hacked twice. Bnet is the only account that needs an authenticator.

I would bet that most people who got hacked/compromised have never fallen for any email scams and don't tell the world what their bnet ID and password is.

The users are to blame in one way though, they bought Diablo III, we were obviously foolish for doing that.

CAPTCHA: I can't describe brands I have never heard of.

Because the users are to blame. Authenticators would NOT WORK if Blizzard was "hacked". Blizzard is in no way responsible for anyones lack of security. Also note, that many banks (and other games) have authenticators, as does Paypal/ebay. I have their auth on my keychain.

 

[Vrach]

So lemme get this straight. They make the game have an always-on DRM by/so they can have the AH. Then, they charge the people who don't have a smartphone (yeah, believe it or not, D3 exists outside well-developed countries) 6.5$ to use that AH?

Brilliant.

 

[Callate]

Is it too much to hope that this makes the Auction House a crashing failure and forces these kind of dynamics to backpedal a bit? 'Cuz frankly, the new paradigm kind of sucks.

 

[Epona]

This absolutely is Blizzards fault. They forced everyone to play online, they apparently have a system that let's people trial and error their way into your account and they didn't include the required authenticator with the game.

I have many internet accounts, bank accounts, forum accounts and game accounts but battle.net is the only account I have hacked and it has been hacked twice. Bnet is the only account that needs an authenticator.

I would bet that most people who got hacked/compromised have never fallen for any email scams and don't tell the world what their bnet ID and password is.

The users are to blame in one way though, they bought Diablo III, we were obviously foolish for doing that.

CAPTCHA: I can't describe brands I have never heard of.

Because the users are to blame. Authenticators would NOT WORK if Blizzard was "hacked". Blizzard is in no way responsible for anyones lack of security. Also note, that many banks (and other games) have authenticators, as does Paypal/ebay. I have their auth on my keychain.

Ok, so tell me what I did to get hacked?

 

[Eri]

This absolutely is Blizzards fault. They forced everyone to play online, they apparently have a system that let's people trial and error their way into your account and they didn't include the required authenticator with the game.

I have many internet accounts, bank accounts, forum accounts and game accounts but battle.net is the only account I have hacked and it has been hacked twice. Bnet is the only account that needs an authenticator.

I would bet that most people who got hacked/compromised have never fallen for any email scams and don't tell the world what their bnet ID and password is.

The users are to blame in one way though, they bought Diablo III, we were obviously foolish for doing that.

CAPTCHA: I can't describe brands I have never heard of.

Because the users are to blame. Authenticators would NOT WORK if Blizzard was "hacked". Blizzard is in no way responsible for anyones lack of security. Also note, that many banks (and other games) have authenticators, as does Paypal/ebay. I have their auth on my keychain.

Ok, so tell me what I did to get hacked?

More like what you didn't do. There's any number of ways you could get "hacked", but the point is it didn't come from Blizzard's end, and that means there's only one end left, which is the users.

 

[Snotnarok]

Hahahaha yeah because the authenticator stopped people from getting their accounts hacked. It's a nice stunt to show they're serious about security but if that was the case they'd try and sort out their security problems themselves.

 

[Epona]

This absolutely is Blizzards fault. They forced everyone to play online, they apparently have a system that let's people trial and error their way into your account and they didn't include the required authenticator with the game.

I have many internet accounts, bank accounts, forum accounts and game accounts but battle.net is the only account I have hacked and it has been hacked twice. Bnet is the only account that needs an authenticator.

I would bet that most people who got hacked/compromised have never fallen for any email scams and don't tell the world what their bnet ID and password is.

The users are to blame in one way though, they bought Diablo III, we were obviously foolish for doing that.

CAPTCHA: I can't describe brands I have never heard of.

Because the users are to blame. Authenticators would NOT WORK if Blizzard was "hacked". Blizzard is in no way responsible for anyones lack of security. Also note, that many banks (and other games) have authenticators, as does Paypal/ebay. I have their auth on my keychain.

Ok, so tell me what I did to get hacked?

More like what you didn't do. There's any number of ways you could get "hacked", but the point is it didn't come from Blizzard's end, and that means there's only one end left, which is the users.

You typed but said nothing.

Now, if it's my fault, tell me what I did/didn't do to cause myself to get hacked?

 

[Lovely Mixture]

More like what you didn't do. There's any number of ways you could get "hacked", but the point is it didn't come from Blizzard's end, and that means there's only one end left, which is the users.

Why couldn't it have been from Blizzard's end? Companies are not infallible.

Tell me again why Item dupes is relevant to account security?

Cause that's the reason they started the always online DRM and the accounts in the first place. Blizzard has made more problems than they "fixed."

 

[5ilver]

I can't believe people are actually defending blizzard. I guess this is just a test to see how much bullshit the player base can swallow.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

I was very annoyed to discover the dial-in authenticator doesn't work for D3. I don't want the auction house, I just want -security-. I do not have a smart phone, and no, I am NOT paying extra to buy an extra product because YOU CAN'T MAKE YOUR GAME SECURE.

No, they are selling an extra security measure because you can't make your PC secure.

The only way to access an account is with the password. Everyone who got hacked had their password stolen

Bull and Shit, broseph, unique case sensitive password over 8 units with numbers, battlenet information not given out. I don't fuck with phishing scams, cycle my passwords, don't respond to e-mails from people I don't know personally (if I even read them), run commercial spyware and anti-virus software. I'm about as well protected as an -AVERAGE CONSUMER- can be and if you blame me for only being an average consumer and not tech savvy? Screw you, I shouldn't have to be. When you provide a SERVICE instead of a PRODUCT the onus is on you to provide for the lowest common denominator, let alone the average. Authenticators should be available for all games (not just WoW) for FREE for all consumers. I don't have a smartphone, so that sort of leaves me SOL.

Got to love the security industry, one of the few crimes where we blame the victim for asking for it. Guess I shouldn't have worn that trampy T-Shirt?

 

[cyvaris]

God SO many Blizzard fanboys in here. They made themselves a target, so did the less then intelligent players who had their passwords compromised by their own actions. Everyone lost because of the RMAH, especially those people who just want to play the darn game without being connected to the internet.

 

[ElPatron]

Ocycles through available passwords until it grants access to your account.

Yeah, no. Not even my dual-core @ 3.0Ghz can handle 1000 guesses per second.

 

[USSR]

Right, because authenticators prevented hacking entirely.....oh wait...

The idea was to cut down on hacking.
The authenticator provides an additional layer of security that makes is significantly harder for a hacker to take you account.

Yeah, no. Not even my dual-core @ 3.0Ghz can handle 1000 guesses per second.

..no offense, but that's not a powerful processor.
At all.

 

[Sid7Zero]

I'm an old Blizz fan who gobbled up their content through the WoW years prior to Lich King. My best suggestion is if you have a gripe with D3 then don't play it. I was one of the fortunate few who managed to get a closed beta invite for D3 and discovered my discontent with the entire game then. So I don't play it.

Complaining about D3 won't change it. Activision-Blizzard has proven time and again they don't listen to their fan-base, they listen to shareholders. They've released the same games for over a decade, and the sheep continue to consume.

Follow the link for some insight on the "only publisher with leading market positions across all categories of the rapidly growing interactive entertainment industry:" http://web.archive.org/web/20080528104716/http://www.activisionblizzard.com/factSheet/factSheet.pdf