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I don't want jagex accounts.
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Some aspects of this looming update I do like, such as:
- the ability to make longer passwords.
- the ability to use special characters in passwords.
- the addition of case sensitive passwords.
TBH, these features should have been included from the start. These changes would make it harder for someone to guess your password correctly.
However, let us face facts - you can have the longest, most complicated password possible. If you are still dumb enough to click on a bad link to a phishing site, you will still get hijacked. All your fancy added "security" will mean nothing. You still have to be smart.
With the "All your eggs in one basket" approach, if a hacker gets into your Jagex Account, they will have ALL your accounts, not just the one they hacked. Impossible, you say? I am not convinced.
I do not mind having to log in using an E-mail address. That is what I have used since I started. The needless complication of fetching verification codes simply to log in and play is ridiculously tedious, and frankly I find it insulting. As if we all are hapless children incapable of securing our accounts on our own without Mama Jagex to net-nanny us through a series of obstacles put in our path in order to keep our accounts safe from ourselves.
I would have no objections if conversion to a Jagex Account was optional - added protection for those who feel it is not safe for them to use the internet without supervision. Some of us are grown-ups who know what we are doing, thank you. I have been playing these type of games for a long time. I have never been hacked. Never.
I find it difficult to believe our accounts will be perfectly safe, and any issues with the migration will be easily resolved when it has been stated this is a one-way conversion, with no possibility of restoring our character back to a RuneScape Account. They may not want to do it, but I do not buy that it cannot be done. Either our data is safe, or it is not. I've been putting out fire with gasoline!
Kat's Diary
- the ability to make longer passwords.
- the ability to use special characters in passwords.
- the addition of case sensitive passwords.
TBH, these features should have been included from the start. These changes would make it harder for someone to guess your password correctly.
However, let us face facts - you can have the longest, most complicated password possible. If you are still dumb enough to click on a bad link to a phishing site, you will still get hijacked. All your fancy added "security" will mean nothing. You still have to be smart.
With the "All your eggs in one basket" approach, if a hacker gets into your Jagex Account, they will have ALL your accounts, not just the one they hacked. Impossible, you say? I am not convinced.
I do not mind having to log in using an E-mail address. That is what I have used since I started. The needless complication of fetching verification codes simply to log in and play is ridiculously tedious, and frankly I find it insulting. As if we all are hapless children incapable of securing our accounts on our own without Mama Jagex to net-nanny us through a series of obstacles put in our path in order to keep our accounts safe from ourselves.
I would have no objections if conversion to a Jagex Account was optional - added protection for those who feel it is not safe for them to use the internet without supervision. Some of us are grown-ups who know what we are doing, thank you. I have been playing these type of games for a long time. I have never been hacked. Never.
I find it difficult to believe our accounts will be perfectly safe, and any issues with the migration will be easily resolved when it has been stated this is a one-way conversion, with no possibility of restoring our character back to a RuneScape Account. They may not want to do it, but I do not buy that it cannot be done. Either our data is safe, or it is not. I've been putting out fire with gasoline!
Kat's Diary
29-Oct-2023 04:43:41
Linking all accounts into one? Jagex has clearly 'lost it' in regards to security since they nerfed JAG.
@Ambro08, I too will not 'weaken' my account by orders of a company that clearly puts our 'time' on a backburner. Lets hope they forget about that launcher and keeps working/OR limitations arise to prevent blocking our old sign ins.
On the bright side of things, Jagex is losing players, we do have voice at the end of the day.
The future is not on Jagex's side. No point warning them, "maybe they deserve it" for putting us players on the back burner, only to then 'burn' themselves financially
@Ambro08, I too will not 'weaken' my account by orders of a company that clearly puts our 'time' on a backburner. Lets hope they forget about that launcher and keeps working/OR limitations arise to prevent blocking our old sign ins.
On the bright side of things, Jagex is losing players, we do have voice at the end of the day.
The future is not on Jagex's side. No point warning them, "maybe they deserve it" for putting us players on the back burner, only to then 'burn' themselves financially
30-Oct-2023 19:27:37
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