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    John Keefer posted a new article, Blizzard facing class action suit over authenticators.

    When your games are purchased by millions of people, you are bound to have some dissatisfied customers, some willing to take you to court. Blizzard is staring down a class action suit by two gamers who have accused the company of herding players to buy Battle.net authenticators instead of doing a better job of securing player information.
    Nov 13, 2012 5:00pm PST
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    John Keefer posted a new article, Blizzard facing class action suit over authenticators.

    When your games are purchased by millions of people, you are bound to have some dissatisfied customers, some willing to take you to court. Blizzard is staring down a class action suit by two gamers who have accused the company of herding players to buy Battle.net authenticators instead of doing a better job of securing player information. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      26 million from the sale of authenticators. Didnt each authenticator come out to a net profit of $0 for B... : Goodkatt
      • They do. Which is part of the reason I think this so called lawsuit is just going to be dismissed. : DedlokPM
      • That's what has me confused. Blizzard always claimed the purchase-cost of the authenticators were the sam... : Curike
      • Another statement they made was that the authenticators on mobile devices were free for exactly the same ... : Curike
    • I'm sure this will totally go in the player's favor. : Ambient80
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      Stay awhile and litigate : massdev
      • Well played. lol : fuellThis person is cool!
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      Authenticators have been around for a while, but this is the first time I have heard of a company chargin... : Epsilon Sector
      • They're only charging for the physical devices -- which all companies I'm aware of (minus PayPal maybe?) ... : mystikalThis person is cool!
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      herding them to buy? the IOS and android ones were up and free immediately : DownforceThis person is cool!
      • It's costing us significantly more to create a bot farm since we have to purchase authenticators for the ... : Wombat WooThis person is cool!
      • thats exactly what I was thinking : soundcreepy
    • This is retarded, the handheld activators are an alternative for people who don't own a smartphone and ca... : 6UnJ9Wn
    • Oh my god people are so stupid : The Grolar Bear
    • Pretty pathetic. It seems some people will look for any avenue to sue just to make money. I hope they get... : Kojak2000
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      This still doesn't excuse their passwords not being case sensitive. : Turd FergusonThis person is cool!
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        That was a rather wtf moment when I typed in my pass for WoW and capslock was on, but I still got in. : Wombat WooThis person is cool!
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          At the end of the day, case (in)sensitivity doesn't matter for online services. Putting a rate limit on ... : walker270This person is cool!
          • ding ding ding : MikkleThePickle
    • I'll sign. : Moonbase Commander