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Diablo III

Game » consists of 5 releases. First released on May 15, 2012

Diablo III returns to the world of Sanctuary twenty years after the events of Diablo II with a new generation of heroes that must defeat the demonic threat from Hell.

Steamguard equivalent for Diablo 3 ?

#1 Posted by Humpchies (4 posts) - 11 months, 25 days ago

So the stories about account hacking is really freaking me out mostly because I don't have an authenticator. But would something along the lines of what Valve does to Steam account help ? Not sure about Valve's success in preventing hacking just thought it might help. Thoughts anyone ?

#2 Posted by fox01313 (4741 posts) - 11 months, 25 days ago

Good question, as for the authenticator, they're cheap & work across all blizz games that use just the one tied to your account.

#3 Edited by Mnemoidian (780 posts) - 11 months, 25 days ago

@Humpchies: They do some Steamguard-similar stuff, actually. But a lot of it is connected to the Authenticator-model of security, which works better anyway (and according to Blizzard, there are no reports of accounts with attached Authenticators being compromised so far...)

I suppose you don't have access to any iOS, Android, Blackberry or Zune device? There are mobile authenticators for all of those. I wouldn't use the "desktop authenticator" linked around here, though... as it kind of defeats the point.

#4 Posted by EXTomar (2236 posts) - 11 months, 25 days ago

The difference with games with Steam Guard are they aren't in games that feature collected and readable value but I could be mistaken about that. It is handy that Steam knows where your "home" is and takes extra steps when someone from way outside logins in.

#5 Posted by NaDannMaGoGo (338 posts) - 11 months, 25 days ago

Don't be too scared about getting hacked. In the end it's probably really not from inside the game but rather from outside Trojans and similar stuff. If you surf around with Adblock, NoScript and don't go to dodgy websites, it's unlikely that stuff will happen to you.

Still an authenticator probably won't hurt, and even though I personally never in my life had hacking issues I'm gonna get one soon.

#6 Posted by mosdl (3010 posts) - 11 months, 25 days ago

You can also get a physical authenticator. Steam accounts get hacked too though btw.

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