To add to your B.net Balance, you will now have to have a keyfob authenticator or the mobile authenticator on your account.
So, basically, other than people who already added cash to their B.net balance, you have to have or get an authenticator to participate in the RMAH when it comes up.
Bravo, Blizzard. Also, it will save them money in less hacked accounts to restore.
Noooo! I don't have an authenticator, nor do I have plans to get one. I don't want one, and I don't have the money for one. Now I can't use RMAH to GET the money for on?! FUCK!
so you don't have a phone for the free one and you can't spend $7 to get a physical one?
there's no excuse to not already having an authenticator. you can save $7 in one day by visiting the grocery store instead of blowing a wad on pizza and burgers.
Noooo! I don't have an authenticator, nor do I have plans to get one. I don't want one, and I don't have the money for one. Now I can't use RMAH to GET the money for on?! FUCK!
Ridiculous, you're just being childish. Can't come up with $7, really? If that's true then what the hell were you thinking when you spent $60 on a video game? This is a good move. No one is forced to use the RMAH, if you want to you have to secure your account to the highest degree possible.
Noooo! I don't have an authenticator, nor do I have plans to get one. I don't want one, and I don't have the money for one. Now I can't use RMAH to GET the money for on?! FUCK!
You can't afford one? But you can afford the game, the computer to play it on, the electricity to power the computer, etc.... but $7 BREAKS the bank?
As long as we don't need one to sell on the RMAH. I personally doesn't like the idea of having to buy and wear a helmet because a minority of idiots fall off their bike. The mandatory authenticator would have been avoided if blizzard had not setup paypal to be a preauthorized payment subscription, it make transfers faster and easier, but it remove one layer of security of having to enter your paypal password.
Anyway, that won't change the fact that compromised account will have their items and gold sold on the RMAH. Having your account hacked and paypal compromised by your own fault is one thing, but blizzard auctioning "stolen goods" is entirely another.
As long as we don't need one to sell on the RMAH. I personally doesn't like the idea of having to buy and wear a helmet because a minority of idiots fall off their bike. The mandatory authenticator would have been avoided if blizzard had not setup paypal to be a preauthorized payment subscription, it make transfers faster and easier, but it remove one layer of security of having to enter your paypal password.
Anyway, that won't change the fact that compromised account will have their items and gold sold on the RMAH. Having your account hacked and paypal compromised by your own fault is one thing, but blizzard auctioning "stolen goods" is entirely another.
I'm guessing that you will, since anything sold on the RMAH will go through the B.net balance. Also, it would make sense to do that, just so that your account can't be used to sell the stolen goods, and, less accounts stolen in total. (If it has an authenticator, they'll have trouble changing where the money goes for the account, and probably won't get hacked in the first place.)
I've not been hacked in my years on B.net, but, I know many have been, and yes, it's not been Blizzard's fault. It's just cheaper for Blizzard to minimize the occurrences of anyone getting hacked who bought gear with cash, and any press that goes with that, even if the amount of people hacked may be a very small (less than 1%) number. The 'computer press' has shown themselves to be complete idiots, blaming their own ineptitude on Blizzard in public, which of course means lots of idiots overflowing Blizzard's forums trying to blame them for the hacking.
Also, as I mentioned above, less hacked=less money spent paying someone to restore accounts.
As long as we don't need one to sell on the RMAH. I personally doesn't like the idea of having to buy and wear a helmet because a minority of idiots fall off their bike. The mandatory authenticator would have been avoided if blizzard had not setup paypal to be a preauthorized payment subscription, it make transfers faster and easier, but it remove one layer of security of having to enter your paypal password.
Anyway, that won't change the fact that compromised account will have their items and gold sold on the RMAH. Having your account hacked and paypal compromised by your own fault is one thing, but blizzard auctioning "stolen goods" is entirely another.
From what it looks like, as long as you don't send the proceeds to your Blizzard Balance (I guess that means keeping it in RMAH units?) you don't need one. The TOS says it is specifically adding money, from paypal or from the RMAH to your balance. Of course, this is assuming that you can keep a balance in the D3 RMAH that doesn't count as "Blizzard Balance."
To add to your B.net Balance, you will now have to have a keyfob authenticator or the mobile authenticator on your account.
So, basically, other than people who already added cash to their B.net balance, you have to have or get an authenticator to participate in the RMAH when it comes up.
Bravo, Blizzard. Also, it will save them money in less hacked accounts to restore.
there's no excuse to not already having an authenticator. you can save $7 in one day by visiting the grocery store instead of blowing a wad on pizza and burgers.
Ridiculous, you're just being childish. Can't come up with $7, really? If that's true then what the hell were you thinking when you spent $60 on a video game? This is a good move. No one is forced to use the RMAH, if you want to you have to secure your account to the highest degree possible.
You can't afford one? But you can afford the game, the computer to play it on, the electricity to power the computer, etc.... but $7 BREAKS the bank?
Anyway, that won't change the fact that compromised account will have their items and gold sold on the RMAH. Having your account hacked and paypal compromised by your own fault is one thing, but blizzard auctioning "stolen goods" is entirely another.
I'm guessing that you will, since anything sold on the RMAH will go through the B.net balance. Also, it would make sense to do that, just so that your account can't be used to sell the stolen goods, and, less accounts stolen in total. (If it has an authenticator, they'll have trouble changing where the money goes for the account, and probably won't get hacked in the first place.)
I've not been hacked in my years on B.net, but, I know many have been, and yes, it's not been Blizzard's fault. It's just cheaper for Blizzard to minimize the occurrences of anyone getting hacked who bought gear with cash, and any press that goes with that, even if the amount of people hacked may be a very small (less than 1%) number. The 'computer press' has shown themselves to be complete idiots, blaming their own ineptitude on Blizzard in public, which of course means lots of idiots overflowing Blizzard's forums trying to blame them for the hacking.
Also, as I mentioned above, less hacked=less money spent paying someone to restore accounts.