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Requiring character names to log in
kingfelix
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Recently I've tried returning to a couple different games I used to play for a quick look around, only to find that they now require you to enter a character name in order to log in. Being someone who bounces around from game to game quite a bit, this can be difficult to remember. In one case I had to e-mail customer service in order to actually return for a temporary reactivation I received.
Has anyone else encountered this and found it to be a bit of an inconvenience? I guess I appreciate the fact that some games are trying to improve their security but I really hope this doesn't become an industry standard. Shouldn't a username/password be enough?
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Happened to me when I reinstalled GW. Thing is, I never really got far and had deleted my characters. Lukily for me it accepted the most common name I use in most MMOs. Guess I had one with that name at some point.
I have never played a game that done that :O , what game are you talking about?
I think it is a bit silly because you can get people with the same name of different servers.
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Goddamit...really?
I suppose this means I'm probably screwed if and when I decide to ever get into that game again. I tend to just go with whatever name pops in my head at the time. I rarely use the same name.
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
EvE does this. Returning after being a way recently, after logging into the site with my username and pw to resub, it asked for a char name. It took a couple of tries but I was lucky enough to get in without having to resort to submitting a support ticket.
Yup, login is now username (email), password and character name. First and last name needed. Couldn't figure out why I couldn't get in until I threw on a surname.
Ah yeah, i can understand why eve would do it as they only have one server.
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I guess i would have to start writing down my character's name as well on my notebook of log in & password of games list.
Let's say you have the same e-mail and password on some other web site. Suppose that the owners of that site are idiots and don't hash the passwords. Then some hacker steals their database. Now they have your e-mail and password and can use your Guild Wars account. Maybe most of the people in his database don't play Guild Wars, but if 0.1% do, that's an awful lot of "hacked" accounts. And he can take the database around to other games and try to steal accounts there, too. If that sounds hypothetical, a social networking site had its database stolen not that long ago, and the hacker got a list of more than 30 million usernames with corresponding passwords, e-mail addresses, and various other demographic information.
If you use a different password for every site you visit, that won't happen, but few people do that. If you need to know a character name as well, then the hypothetical hacker who knows your account name and password doesn't know a character name, so he can't steal your account. Since Guild Wars imposes character name restrictions that don't match what people will use for site names on most sites, now our hypothetical hacker can't do anything to Guild Wars accounts. That's why they implemented it, and it's probably something more games should do.
Though really, the hacker would probably go for WoW first if he tried to steal game accounts. And he'd likely try to get paypal or bank information before that, too.
So far it was just Guild Wars and Eve that I encountered this in. Neither of these games did this to me before, so I'm hoping this doesn't become a growing trend amongst MMOs. I've created far too many characters across far too many games to remember all their names. Like I said before, I appreciate these companies trying to increase account security but I think some type of security question would be far less of a hassle. As for having to enter this info every time, as is the case with GW, this seems a bit like overkill to me.
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I try to use when possible the same character name in every game I play. This way I might meet people from other games I got to know in those games. Don't know why I should use different names for the games I play. However username and password are all different for every game I play aswell having several email adresses.
I just like the social part of this genre which for me is the reason to stick with one main name when possible in all the mmorpg I play or gonna be playing.