[Official] Diablo III Information and Discussion Thread - Page 786

There's an alternate way, there's multiple authenticator emulators available for Windows, this of course kind of makes the authenticator useless from a security point of view not to mention that it's 3rd party software.

Blue comment about these emulators: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2569217651

Yeah, I don't have a smart phone though, just a regular Verizon that currently doesn't have service because I've been jobless for awhile and don't start semester until the Fall. I think I'll just buy the authenticator... I'd really like to sell items on the RMAH.

What Blizzard SHOULD have done is include one of their $6.50 keychain authenticators along with the game. ESPECIALLY if it was going to be required for the RMAH. The thing can't cost more than a dollar or so mass produced, so it realistically would have been better from a customer satisfaction/ security standpoint.

Then it is simply a matter of whether or not the user chooses to add it to the account or not.

Just my .02 cents.

Yeah but your talking over 6 million dollars there .

Which they will easily make back within the first week the RMAH is live.

But then people would complain about Blizzard forcing two-factor authentication on everyone, even those who didn't want to use the RMAH (even if that isn't actually the case)...

It's really an endless cycle of complaints and grievances.

Which is why I had said : "Then it is simply a matter of whether or not the user chooses to add it to the account or not."

Just include the Authenticator, but allow us to choose. Then the customer has no one to blame but themselves for a lapse in account security. The tool was provided to them. It was their choice to opt not to take advantage of it and use it.

I was more making a jest towards the people complaining about the auction house in general. It's not a required part of the game but people complain about it being there as if Blizzard was shoving it down their throats.

Not only is it not required, but people who want to buy items would be able to fro third parties anyways. It changes nothing about the game, the "pay2win" guys would still buy all the best items.

I hear ya, and I agree with you. Sad but true.