Just to put it out there, playing self found, I've never had more than 3 million gold. Never using the means it all gets spent far too fast on crafting (amulets/shoulder/bracers/gloves mainly, sometimes others) or upgrading gems. Not to mention the chest recipes costing 1.5mill each, and Hellfire designs for 2mill.
Oh, I play the game alright, I've put many hours into my self found account. Using the AH is easy to get over 10 mill, but not everyone wants to do it.
On the topic of laziness and investigating the cause, part of me thinks that isn't Blizzards problem. They give you all the suggestions for security on the website, even an extra tool in the authenticator. Why should they expend valuable time tracking down the multiple culprits when it's far easier to just make it not worth their while? You call it laziness, I think it's a different strategy that's more cost effective and makes the most sense.
Oh I'm sure the majority of the problem is the player themselves (myself included with certain aspects) Hell if you're downloading torrents, using the same passwords, not using any sort of methodology or common sense with your actions its bound to happen. I'm pretty sure most of the cases in WoW involved someone buying gold and using very similiar if not the SAME password to register an account or their order on the gold buying site. If you even go to some of them you'll see they ask for your bnet email address your contact email address your account name,etc etc so they've already got plenty of puzzle pieces to work with.
However, its not difficult for blizzard to see in the came of someone being hacked that their account was logged in from x location. If the hackers location is even in the same state that should certainly raise some red flags.
As someone who has had my account hacked at least 4 times, mostly due to WoW (even when I stopped playing and cancelled my subscription all together) I've even had an authenticator attached... I think the limit they imposed on gold restorations is just stupid.
unless its a typo they limited it to 10million gold, hell even 100million is silly.
Pretty sure at this point in the game 99% of players (yes a made up statistic) have at least 10million or more gold.
While the changes were surely brought on by people abusing restores..its a bit silly. If your friends are 'hacking' you so you can benefit from a restore they should be able to piece the puzzle together fairly easily.
Not even 70% or more havent reached inferno... so 99% of pll with 10m , no
Oh I'm sure the majority of the problem is the player themselves (myself included with certain aspects) Hell if you're downloading torrents, using the same passwords, not using any sort of methodology or common sense with your actions its bound to happen. I'm pretty sure most of the cases in WoW involved someone buying gold and using very similiar if not the SAME password to register an account or their order on the gold buying site. If you even go to some of them you'll see they ask for your bnet email address your contact email address your account name,etc etc so they've already got plenty of puzzle pieces to work with.
However, its not difficult for blizzard to see in the came of someone being hacked that their account was logged in from x location. If the hackers location is even in the same state that should certainly raise some red flags.
Not even 70% or more havent reached inferno... so 99% of pll with 10m , no