SMS Account Authentication

[bionicbadger]

I understand you want to make stuff easier for yourself, but its a privacy nightmare.

Don't people already have an email address registered to the account? If they get their account and email hacked, then they are pretty much retards to begin with and can't be helped.

You worry too much about people whining about hacked accounts.
People aren't paying for this and you have no Service level agreement with the users.
If you catch someone hacking, perma ban account and related IPs.
Otherwise ban the accounts that were "hacked" and accounts accessed on same IP if they can provide the relevant account information, and tell them they should be more careful in the future.

Account security isn't rocket science and maybe if people lose a game account that costs them nothing, they might actually smarten up instead of learning to expect other people to fix shit for them.

[singwa]

Dear Rogean,

Did you test your SMS LS password recovery? Was it a success?
I had account last year and played for 4 months. I cant remember my password now though...

Thanks

[Kasaga]

Long as its a optional thing that seems fine. But I will always opt to give as little information to the internet as humanly possible. I don't use face book, don't own a cellular phone, other than having an email for being able to do stuff like this that is it. Perhaps a secret question could be implemented or some such similar method using your email address, or just continue playing at your own risk like before.