[PA Comic] Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - Transfer Of Title

Geth

Transfer Of Title
http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/09/26

KoopahTroopah

It's a shame really. I loved the beta but held out on buying the game itself, and the majority of my friends who did buy it aren't even playing it anymore.

Lucascraft

So does ArenaNet offer any sort of authenticator for their game? This seems like a thing that would be needed if account theft is that much of an issue.

Kagera

So you have a mail in to support.

At this point I feel like I'm playing Zero Wing. :bz

Gaslight

I know there’s a typo in the strip; I’ll fix it when I get in. I had a super convoluted method of trying to resolve it that didn’t work, which has only compounded my anxiety. For awhile, Gabriel would leave typos in to punish me, to shame me, but that’s my secret. I’m always ashamed.

(That wasn’t real talk! We’re not real-talking. That is an Avengers reference. I have no idea what shame is; look through my archive.)

(CW)TB

Jormungandr

I think part of the issue is the battle.net hacking a while back. I (stupidly) had the same email address / password pair for GW2 as I had for battle.net at the time they were hacked (I had a physical authenticator on bnet, so I never was hacked there, really) and it was tried on release day. Luckily ArenaNet sent me confirmation emails to approve logging in from a new IP, and so they never really got in.

I'm not sure if that's a setting I had set somewhere or if that's the default behavior, but I got probably 20 emails over the course of two days of log in attempts from multiple IP's in CN and TW. I've since changed the password to something different, and I haven't got any more emails.

That doesn't explain (assuming this is somewhat accurate to Mike's real-life experience) changing a password and having them get in again, but I think it might explain some of the seemingly high rate of accounts getting compromised.

Edit to add : I do not ever use the same password for the email account as I use for the game logins. I suppose if someone was silly enough to use the same password for their games and the email accounts used for those games, the email login verification might be less effective.

Maz-

The "background" events are getting increasingly weird.

Not that I'm complaining.

Dark Raven X

Ahahaah, yeah this one rings true for me. I put in about a week in GW2 before getting bored. MMOs just aren't my thing, I guess!

Groosenat0r

Balance has been restored... Gabe and Tycho are back to their rightful place...

admanb

Maz- wrote: »

The "background" events are getting increasingly weird.

Not that I'm complaining.

What's funny is that a few strips ago people were commenting on how normal the background events were.

Good Looking Fat Guy

I must be slow, what is the typo supposed to actually say?

Gaslight

I think originally Tycho's line in the last panel lacked a comma. "So you have a mail in to support." Made it somewhat harder to parse.

Barryva

Not going to lie, as funny as the things they are saying are. Gabe in the pile of leafs brought me an unhealthy amount of joy.

Groosenat0r

Barryva wrote: »

Not going to lie, as funny as the things they are saying are. Gabe in the pile of leafs brought me an unhealthy amount of joy.

Joy does not even begin to describe what I feel.

Bill_Peschel

I had a computer game designer who sought my opinion, reassuring me that he wouldn't go ballistic, did this. Decades later, I still remember that sumbitch.