Curse

Pkest · Nov 17, 2006, 08:46 PM // 20:46

This may well draw flames but imho has to be said.

Currently if you have ever purchased anything from the online store your account is linked to a plaync account and your password is tied to that account.

Currently if your birthdate is known or guessable then your plaync account and all associated passwords are vulnerable regardless of their complexity.

Currently if you get a keylogger, from any fansite or anywhere else (including the banner adds here and elsewhere - and don't try to tell me that keyloggers can't be installed via banners under the right circumstances) or even the proverbial '1001 uses for the potato' that Gaile offered, your account is vulnerable.

The recent number of account stealings show just how vulnerable your account is. Basically yes you have to at some point do something stupid. But that means about 5 seconds of stupidity and your many many hours of play and expendeture of money is potentially gone (and you may not even have any way of determining what stupid is).

So I am trying to call attention to this and rally the masses to convince Anet that some sort of increased security is warranted.

I suggest (sadly) not purchasing future chapters without some additional security that means either you can protect your account from being stolen or characters from being deleted or at the very least get back the characters/titles/time that you put into the account.

Please please please Anet (while you are working on expanding the most awesomest game ever

) please try to find a way to make our accounts more secure and/or our characters lockable against deletion and/or our maliciously stolen characters revivable.

Your most loyal customers have upwards of $130 and 1000+ hours invested into this wonderous game. Please do what you can to make us feel and be safer.

edit: Online banks and services are moving away from keyboard driven passwords in droves precisely due to how vulnerable they are.