Mandatory Blizzard Authenticators?
Just some food for thought…
According to this WoW.com article. Blizzard is in the works of potentially mandating authenticators on all World of Warcraft accounts. To be honest, I really like the authenticator idea. I even have the app on my iPhone and use it. I find it to be a great extra measure of security for protecting my account info regardless of my amazing ability to not navigate to every fishing website messaged to me in game. The only issue I see with a mandatory authenticator is that they do not soley bind to a WoW account, but it is something that your battle.net account uses as well. What about all those people who are going to buy Starcraft 2/Diablo 3 that don’t play World of Warcraft?
Perhaps they will give a free authenticator away with the purchase of each game, and pray that it doesn’t get lost. Hopefully Blizzard will make a strong attempt to get the authenticator application on more mobile platforms before they make a move to do this since in my humble opinion it seems to be the most reliable method of not having it stolen by the dresser goblins who also steal my socks. After all, my iPhone never leaves my sight!