Mobile authenticators to stop cheating

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@Kuro466 wrote:

@Karsot ...and what blizzard service do they stop you from using if you don't have a valid blizzard authenticator?

Both mobile numbers and IMEI (phone ID) can be changed and spoofed. Banning mobile numbers is a long term nightmare, because future customers get re-issued banned numbers. In theory this could happen with a spoofed IMEI also. 

The most reliable and effective means of making a cheater ban effective is to make sure the account that's banned cost money, so their is a financial punishment for the ban. This means they need to put accounts that reach a minimum spend level into a "premium queue". Which unfortunately can be percieved as unfair to legitimate free-to-play players, but that's just the way it is.

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You must be young.  Do you not remember how Russian spammers were ruining the internet with emails years ago before phone authentication?    Spambots even seems to be a problem in this game.   Can't convince me otherwise lol.

SO easy to change huh...lol  Future customers get reissued banned numbers?    With the same exact account information?  no I don't think so....   ANd this doesn't seem to be a problem in games that use it.  rainbow six,  cs:go,  apparenlty blizzard games,    GOOGLE EMAIL!!!    come on now.  You guys seem scared they will implement this lol.

Is it perfect?  of course not,  nothing is, but its better then anything else.  And makes a DRASTIC change.