Thread: What are your thoughts on the security token?

Welp. I'm convinced. lol.

OTP is the same methodology used to secure major trading events on Wall Street; now, obviously, there are variances in the level of security offered based on the number of digits and the number of "good" codes, but it's still a fairly robust system.

I would argue that online gaming is a huge business and, thus, a huge target for hackers. The extra security of the token (or "Authenticator" in WoW) is more than worth it, especially if you're getting it for free (I got my WoW ones from Blizzcon events). It's a simple fact that these systems - even as managed by the gaming companies - periodically get breached, and your information is likely to be exposed at some point. Having the OTP token makes it a hacked username/password almost completely useless to the hacker, and keeps your account secure.

And yeah, I personally know hundreds of people who got hacked in WoW at various points; none of them had Authenticators. Like Kyrie, it's the deciding reason I bought the CE. I keep my Blizzard one on my keychain, and this one'll be right next to it.

Well, I will use it although it makes me sad. When I last played FFXI hacking was not yet a huge issue and it was long before any security tokens were announced. I know a lot of changes happened but I didn't know about security tokens at all.

It is terrible that the world has come to a point where people will not only try to steal your real identity and money but your pretend identity and money....

Yeah this is not as big a hassle as some of you believe it to be. And it's worth it.

I started WoW when a friend quit, he gave me his account. Fast forward 4 years and my account gets hacked. Now I can't get that account back because it wasn't under my name, and I completely lost contact with this friend (a shame in it's own right). So I had to straight up start from scratch, when I was finally ready to start playing again. Lost an awesome PvP Healadin /heavysigh

Get a token, superglue it to your desk or monitor or whatever and never worry about this happening to you.

Originally Posted by Xila31

Well, I will use it although it makes me sad. When I last played FFXI hacking was not yet a huge issue and it was long before any security tokens were announced. I know a lot of changes happened but I didn't know about security tokens at all.

It is terrible that the world has come to a point where people will not only try to steal your real identity and money but your pretend identity and money....

Don't think of it as sad - realize that it means that online gaming, once a bastion of the odd loser in society's eyes, is now mainstream and attracting notice. Yes, some of that notice will be negative, but some of it is positive as well.

Originally Posted by Kahlyn Adhuil

Don't think of it as sad - realize that it means that online gaming, once a bastion of the odd loser in society's eyes, is now mainstream and attracting notice. Yes, some of that notice will be negative, but some of it is positive as well.

I hope so. Right now the only attention I see from outside the game industry is negative. No one at my work plays anything and if I talk about a game I'm excited about, I get looked at like I'm an alien with three heads.

Originally Posted by Xila31

I hope so. Right now the only attention I see from outside the game industry is negative. No one at my work plays anything and if I talk about a game I'm excited about, I get looked at like I'm an alien with three heads.

Domestic box office for movies released in 2009 was in the neighborhood of $15 billion; the video game industry had a domestic revenue of over $19 billion. World of Warcraft alone takes in somewhere in the neighborhood of $100-150 million a month.

You have my permission to turn to anyone who looks at you oddly for playing a video game and say, "Video games are a larger market than movies. It's not my fault you're a luddite."

Originally Posted by Kahlyn Adhuil

Domestic box office for movies released in 2009 was in the neighborhood of $15 billion; the video game industry had a domestic revenue of over $19 billion. World of Warcraft alone takes in somewhere in the neighborhood of $100-150 million a month.

You have my permission to turn to anyone who looks at you oddly for playing a video game and say, "Video games are a larger market than movies. It's not my fault you're a luddite."

LOL, okay. I just don't talk about it at work. Why waste a good narrow escape while exploring high level zones story on people who think a good adventure is buying new shoes?

Originally Posted by Kyrie

I've had my WoW account hacked like, ...twice.

The first time I was an officer in guild and had access to the higher levels of guild bank without limit. They cleaned out my entire character and the entire guild bank of anything of value.

Second time I just lost everything of mine, but it still hurt.

And of course they never restore everything you lost. They give you back some stuff, but it's never a full restore.

Until you've experienced having your account raped, you can't really appreciate the added security. I bought the CE almost exclusively for the token. You can never be too careful.

Yeah my thoughts exactly, same reason I bought the CE save me the hassle of ordering it.

Except for me, it was my FFXI character that got hacked through a flash vulnerability on FFXIAH (a banner ad), before that I never thought it could happen to me.

I lost my level 75 MNK that I'd earned practically every piece of gear on myself (okote, fumas, juju gi, brown belt, cross-counters, PCC. My friends even saw it happening but I was at work so could do nothing about it. Before I knew it my character was moved to another server and everything of value was lost.

I tried to start again, but just didn't have the heart left for it after 2 years of hard work and after attempting to deal with PoL (they basically want everything short of blood samples to prove your you, even after the hacker had changed my address to 1113 new york street, new york).

Anything I can do now to avoid such circumstances I do now, but the one solace is that if RMT are resorting to such underhanded tactics, they're getting very desperate.

Take it from me guys, even if you got the regular edition pay whatever and get the token from square it's more than worth it if for nothing else than a little more piece of mind.

EDIT: BTW it was like 4 months before they started offering the tokens that I got hacked, on my birthday that year no less, lucky me eh?

i <3 my token.