Since they think you need a lock your apartment comes with one! Amazing how that works. If they think Diablo3 users need the authenticator the game should come with it.
Yeah, because people intentionally install malware and keyloggers on their computers, right?
That analogy is terrible.
If it was a fundamental flaw in Blizzards architecture it would be much more wide scale, theoretically at that point if they could 'hack' into your account, they could do it to every account. This is obviously not the case. Yes, it seems widescale considering the amount of people talking about it, but keep in mind this is a game with 7 million people playing it.
I think I might stop playing this game. It just doesn't seem that fun. They ruined the incentive to REALLY grind out the best gear. Knowing that some dillhole with a wad of cash can easily outgear me kinda sucks.
Yeah i got to laugh at the no content. The game is brimming with content imo.
Think about it guys, if you had the choice of spending millions of dollars on:
- Hookers and cocaine
or
- Better servers and security for dirty peasant fans who bitch a lot
What would you honestly choose? I imagine the same thought process is applied to all aspects of Blizzard development.
And yet, Valve has somehow found a way to secure both of those things.
How DO they do it?....
I have the authenticator on my phone, and it's not an inconvenience at all, really. It's more of a "oh, yeah, I have to pull out my phone" type of thing. Are people really that inconvenienced by it?
I have the authenticator on my phone, and it's not an inconvenience at all, really. It's more of a "oh, yeah, I have to pull out my phone" type of thing. Are people really that inconvenienced by it?
Are there games on steam that have tradeable items? I know there's some MMO's but you can access those without steam. Also Steam's is only as secure as your email, and it's just as easy to get your email account compromised, if you're accessing it via a website instead of a program, as your WoW account unless you have an authenticator of some sort on your email.
Yeah, TF2 and soon Dota 2 (if it's not in place already). Which also use real monies in their transactions.
And as far as email security goes I use 2 step auth with my gmail and it seems to work pretty well.
Ah okay forgot about those 2. But yeah Valve's security works well so long as your email is protected as well. I think Blizzard just assumes peoples emails aren't secure and went the route that gives the most protection. I have seen some posts on the valve forums about accounts being hacked so they're not totally infallible.
And don't give me that "bu bu bu you could trade items in Diablo 2"... it's not even close to the same thing. That required time and communication skills. In D3 you can upgrade your character ten fold in a matter of seconds (unless the AH lags up).
So requiring time and communication skills are the hallmark of good design for you? You post on a WTB forum or you scan WTS threads in a forum until you find someone to buy/sell something, then you somehow co-ordinate to meet up in the game and do the transaction. Why is this better than the AH? Because you wasted more time doing it? Because you used your 'communication skills' to type up 2 sentences in a forum post? This made your game experience better?
After getting tired of my Barbarian at 52 and struggling in Hell, I made a Monk, Demon Hunter, Wizard, and Witch Doctor and gave them all a shot. I took each of them through Act I to see which would be my new focus and noticed something that pretty much summed up my feelings on itemization.
All three were between level 14 and 16 when they finished Act I. None of them had level-appropriate gear, since even at the start of Act II the loot wasn't at the level they were. I went on to beat Magdha with my Demon Hunter and got level 9-10 gear.
How are you supposed to 'gear up' by farming old acts when they don't provide appropriate gear? Even with the Monk, who did nothing extraneous and zipped through Act I as quickly as possible was level 14, so why is under-leveled gear still dropping partway through the next Act?
I'm fine with there being a loot treadmill that you need to run on in order to get where you want to go...but the way items are dropped right now I had real trouble seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. After killing Magdha with the DH I went to the AH and spent 40,000 on gear and his DPS just about tripled.
It's hard not to feel like you're either using the AH or missing out. Maybe it all changes at 60, but that doesn't really feel like it helps either.
It took mine 9 days to arrive and the status never changed from Processed. It comes via USPS, not UPS.
D2 wasn't balanced around trade. I prefer the D3 AH for ease of use, but D2 didn't REQUIRE you to trade to succeed (except with certain very gear dependent builds). Big difference.
So requiring time and communication skills are the hallmark of good design for you? You post on a WTB forum or you scan WTS threads in a forum until you find someone to buy/sell something, then you somehow co-ordinate to meet up in the game and do the transaction. Why is this better than the AH? Because you wasted more time doing it? Because you used your 'communication skills' to type up 2 sentences in a forum post? This made your game experience better?
For 5 people i know personally who own D3, two got hacked this week and they never had such problems in the past with other online services or games. It seems to be quite spread if You ask me.
It's hard not to feel like you're either using the AH or missing out. Maybe it all changes at 60, but that doesn't really feel like it helps either.
At 60 its worse. You'll be getting as low as level 40's rares and mostly mid50's magics. Its a joke, especially act 1. The ppl who got luck or exploited the game early on now easily farm gear on the ah that needed by others to progress. They really-really screwed up loot progression like this was their first loot game, something you wouldnt expect from blizz.
I don't believe that at all especially if you consider the fact that original D2 had just as many complaints as the original D3 including difficulty that with patches and expansions it will last just as long as D2.I don't believe the addictive nature of D3 will last near as long as D2... I give it six months before most start tapering off.
It's more like the apartment comes with a lock, whereas Diablo III comes with a password.
The people getting compromised are getting keylogged/malware/etc., this is the equivalent of making 100 copies of your apartments door key and spreading them through the city with the address attached to a note.
The authenticator would be like getting a security system installed so even if someone chooses to use the key that you so generously gave them, chances are they still won't be able to get in.