I'm in favor of this. My fiancee and I quit playing about a year ago and I just recently came back. I gave most of my stuff away when I quit (oops), but she did not. She had intended to, but the person she was going to give her stuff to never logged on.
At any rate, she has no idea what her password was, and the lack of a password recovery system is disheartening. She put in a lot of work gearing her main and alt (as did I) and we can no longer access any of it.
I don't personally care about giving my cell phone number away (except when Karsten uses it to call me at 4am, which HAS happened), but I am sympathetic to those that do care or don't have one to give, as well as people abroad. Opt-in seems like a swell idea to me if it would work.
Has the "what if you get a new cell phone number" question been asked/answered yet? I'm browsing on my droid so maybe I just missed it. Is there a way to change the number set to your account? If so, how would a "hacker" be prohibited from replacing your number with theirs?
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