I have a question, will Diablo 3 use the same Blizzard accounts as StarCraft 2. From what I know SC2 was the first game with required, official, B-net accounts (Except maybe WoW). So, will D3 use the same accounts? I hope so for one reason...
Maggot is quite a hard name to come by on online games, and that is my SC2 account name... I hope it stays.
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Will be changed at some point, I'm too lazy right now.
I don't understand. Your account name is quite meaningless. All that matters is your character name for WoW and game name for StarCraft 2 (the later you can take ANY, even if some other people are using it).
That is, unless you use the RealID things. At which point your account name is even more meaningless.
Also, you should NOT link D3 to the same acount than SC2. If anything happened to any of them... or lets say you get hacked and they do nasty things... your entire account can get banned, even if something happened only with 1 game.
Besides, I got my Steam account banned for absolutely no reason whatsoever and its the same issue: get banned, you can't do anything, and you lose all games or at least, all chance to play online with them.
exactly, while you have only one battle.net account, you use unique (with unique identifiers at least in starcraft II) names for each game profile. In WoW its the character names (for real id) in sc2 its player name.
in short: 1 account for all. one gamer profile per game.
Well, SFJake was right that the actual B.Net account name is meaningless. For a lot of people, it's their real name, and that's defiantly not what their SC2 handle is. So, even if your SC2 handle is Maggot, and your B.Net account is Maggot, that doesn't mean anything for your D3 name.
Furthermore, the name shown is even MORE meaningless, because they allow more than one person to have the same name. They just add something called a "character ID number" (I think). So you might be Maggot.123, or the 123rd maggot (if I'm correct in understanding it). Point being, don't matter if every single person who bought SC2 chose Maggot, you'd be able to chose it for SC2, and even more so for D3.
Edit: Fingolfin ninja'd me. But we are both talking about the identifier system that means that you can have any name you want, as long as it's not obscene (I think they have a filter for that, not sure).
while you're right about the "having the same name" part. you're wrong on the how the identifier works. obviously you cant have the same name and identifier with someone. but the identifier is a 3 digit number that (seems at least) pretty random.
Edit: @ Fingolfin
Okay, so you can have 1000 people with the same name on any given realm. So, if the name you want is already taken by 1000 different people, well, then you weren't going to get that name in the old games anyway, so how does that change what I said?
Also, it doesn't matter if 1000 people take Maggot in SC2, cause those names don't matter in D3.
havent seen a way to remove an authenticator attached to an account so far unless you give away all your information to one of the scam sites that are around.
to remove it you need 2 authenticator codes in a row (use it twice in a row 30 seconds from first to second time) and it cant be simulated or it resets the action (and you also need one code to enter the account).
so far its the safest way to keep your account to yourself, i'm using it for over a year now and i'm having no issues.
So, do they make these authenticators for people who AREN'T in WoW?
Yes the authenticator is for your battle.net accoutn so it works for wow starcraft2 and other future games that require your battle.net account to be used.
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Basically what it does is that the keylogger (trojan) does the regular thing, copies your username and password, and when you type in the authentication code it copies and sends it to the attacker. A wrong code is sent to the Blizzard server, giving the victim an error message. The attacker can now use the stolen authentication code together with the username and password to log in and do evil for a short period of time.
No security is perfect when you are connected to the internet. Don't ever believe anything else, ever, EVER.
But don't listen to me, listen to Blizzard poster Kropacius.
+1 for the info
what i said is its pretty safe to use so that your account cant be stolen. evil could be done either way, everyone who's been on the internet for some time knows it (and it never harms to remind those of us who became too confident).
and as i mentioned, a good antivirus and a firewall, in addition to an authenticator makes everything very very solid.
So, I can see why people are trying to steal WoW accounts (can sell goods). And I can see how there might be motivation to steal D3 accounts (again, high level crap, spam bots, etc). But what about SC2 accounts? Is there really any serious effort to steal those?
I ask cause I'm thinking about getting an authenticator, but I'm not sure how useful it would be till D3 comes out.
not any real reason to steal a Starcraft II account except maybe to sell cheap (since they get it for free its still profit).
anyway, the battle.net accounts are unifying all franchises so the scammers dont really know what they steal before they steal it. either way without using authenticator and antivirus+firewall its easier to fall victim to one of the scammers/hackers.
Maggot is quite a hard name to come by on online games, and that is my SC2 account name... I hope it stays.
That is, unless you use the RealID things. At which point your account name is even more meaningless.
Also, you should NOT link D3 to the same acount than SC2. If anything happened to any of them... or lets say you get hacked and they do nasty things... your entire account can get banned, even if something happened only with 1 game.
Besides, I got my Steam account banned for absolutely no reason whatsoever and its the same issue: get banned, you can't do anything, and you lose all games or at least, all chance to play online with them.
In short, make 1 account per game.
in short: 1 account for all. one gamer profile per game.
Furthermore, the name shown is even MORE meaningless, because they allow more than one person to have the same name. They just add something called a "character ID number" (I think). So you might be Maggot.123, or the 123rd maggot (if I'm correct in understanding it). Point being, don't matter if every single person who bought SC2 chose Maggot, you'd be able to chose it for SC2, and even more so for D3.
Edit: Fingolfin ninja'd me. But we are both talking about the identifier system that means that you can have any name you want, as long as it's not obscene (I think they have a filter for that, not sure).
wont ever get hacked even if you visit those nasty porn sites
Okay, so you can have 1000 people with the same name on any given realm. So, if the name you want is already taken by 1000 different people, well, then you weren't going to get that name in the old games anyway, so how does that change what I said?
Also, it doesn't matter if 1000 people take Maggot in SC2, cause those names don't matter in D3.
to remove it you need 2 authenticator codes in a row (use it twice in a row 30 seconds from first to second time) and it cant be simulated or it resets the action (and you also need one code to enter the account).
so far its the safest way to keep your account to yourself, i'm using it for over a year now and i'm having no issues.
Yes the authenticator is for your battle.net accoutn so it works for wow starcraft2 and other future games that require your battle.net account to be used.
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
You need only just ask
+1 for the info
what i said is its pretty safe to use so that your account cant be stolen. evil could be done either way, everyone who's been on the internet for some time knows it (and it never harms to remind those of us who became too confident).
and as i mentioned, a good antivirus and a firewall, in addition to an authenticator makes everything very very solid.
I ask cause I'm thinking about getting an authenticator, but I'm not sure how useful it would be till D3 comes out.
anyway, the battle.net accounts are unifying all franchises so the scammers dont really know what they steal before they steal it. either way without using authenticator and antivirus+firewall its easier to fall victim to one of the scammers/hackers.
even if the hacker adds an authenticator, since you got all your info you can retrieve your account quite easily from Blizzard.