Guild Wars 2

Hello

Please let us choose Login-Names that are differen from our email-addresses, since in my eyes that is one of the biggest security problems.

If the hacker have an email-addresse they already know the login-name and only need the password.

If they have a password from my email-address, but my loginnmare here is “xRandomguy234xyz” or whatever, they still don’t know how to login with my password.

Most MMOs i played worked like that, and not everything that Blizzard does must be good.

Beldin.5498:

Most MMOs i played worked like that, and not everything that Blizzard does must be good.

Blizz is lame anyway.
A lot of people have been angry with their login system, especially how it shows your e-mail address up in the top right corner of forums. I’d say they’re not doin it right on a lot of things.

It used to be that way. Somewhere along the line (just like new web pages that have like 10 words of content and 60 ft of scrolling pictures), someone thought it would be a grand idea to use your email address. Never understood it, other than programming laziness (“Well, emails are unique, so hey, we don’t have to write a unique username algorithm test on account creation! Sweet, early lunch! Who wants to go to the Korean BBQ place?”).

Having said that, and knowing the onus will be on us for this one, as they have the communication skills of a brick (still hoping for a hostile takeover by Gazillion), you could create a secondary email for your games that isn’t your primary one.

Just be sure the passwords are always different across games and no game has the same password a the email you use.

Maybe the new trend will be to hide our email addresses by using social security numbers? :|

While I do agree it does increase security it only increases it though obscurity. It also does not improve it as much as just using different passwords for every system you log into. Or using multi-factor authentication.