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Posted: Mar 12th 2009 12:51PM suicideking89 said

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As a former FFXI player and current WoW player, let me reassure you that WoW was a late-comer to the idea of authenticators. Lots of companies whose employees are road warriors or who work from home use the authenticators when tying in to the company servers. In order to connect to my Outlook email I have to use a VPN with one of these authenticators, coupled with a 4 digit extension that I have commited to memory.

That being said, its good to see another MMO offering protection to their customers. In the long run, its less work for their customer service department.
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Posted: Mar 12th 2009 1:26PM Krystalle Voecks said

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Oh, I think we're all well aware of security options like this. I've worked in NOCs as well and had to use one to log into any of my accounts.

Blizzard was, however, the first MMO company that I'm aware of to use the keychain authenticators for customers with game accounts. As such, they get the credit for starting it as an option for players within the genre. If another MMO company did it first for customer's accounts, then I'd agree with you.
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