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*shrug* I am not appolgizing for Blizzard but stating things learned from years of this in WoW. The way Battle.net authentication works, the client is told who is playing not the other way around. There is no way to rig either the WoW or SC2 client to switch Player IDs while connected so I'm inclined to believe there is no way to do that in Diablo 3 as well. All objects are treated as anonymous objects commanded by the server to move so there is no connection or communication player to player. The tech just doesn't support the kind of things some posters are claiming it does.

And I am not claiming Battle.net is 100% secured either but I am going to claim that it is probably easier to hack random desktop machines and random people. Years and years and years of this where every time I've had to deal with it, it turned out to be something a player did instead of Blizzard. It isn't that any of those people were stupid or were careless but those guys are incredibly clever and persistent. WoW and Battle.net attacks are often the first time people have ever dealt with identify theft and they often they are angry and embarrassed it happened to them where the last thing you will get from them is all of the facts partially because these schemes often involve never noticing them.

Could there be something wrong with the Diablo 3 client that leaks sensitive info to a hacker? Yes there could be. Is it more likely that the player accidentally exposed their account information outside of Battle.net? More likely by magnitudes.

I'm trying to picture Giant Bomb with a goatee. Or is Giant Bomb the one with the goatee and the evil twin is the one without??

@Berserk007 Do you realize your complaint is moot anyway? Instead of losing items to whatever on Battle.net you get a shot at getting them back where if you lose your items in a single player game you start over. I'm unclear why this is preferable.

Is this a problem? They do the same sort of adjustments in WoW where if they notice items or drops aren't being used they tweak it. I would rather see the game world with an even distribution items, which includes the auction house.

What does "too western" mean? Why shouldn't they copy what they think works well in Skyrim? That is like suggesting no one can build cars with tired because that has already been done.

Definitely Act 2/Sewers, after you get the head.

I dislike the the term "dumb down" because it seems cliche and meaningless. What where the clever parts of Myst or Gabriel Knight puzzles let alone the infamous cat hair mustache puzzle? I'm not sure we are better off in ye olden days where they weren't holding our hands or making sense either.

I didn't mean it that way. I am merely pointing out with that real example how someone I knew who was being ultra careful every other time decided for whatever reason (maybe a beer or two) slipped up and in a way they didn't expect. He didn't even think about it where we had to text them "hey someone has your account!". When they got back and saw the damage, they swore up and down in vo-com it was impossible, that they were so careful, that it had to be some new hack or a flaw in Battle.net, and so on when someone simply asked "Where did you login last?" and you could hear the /facepalm.

2 Step Authentication and physical authenticators are great ways to add tighter access control to any system. I don't understand why the automatic rejection and hatred of such systems where it isn't so much about the person not being careful as much as they are being careful by adding another authentication layer.

I do believe a thing we are missing is that Adventure Games didn't necessarily "went away" but where subsumed into other systems. Capability and limitations are inherent in the platforms they run on where I'm not sure today's games are better or worse but merely different.

I want to say "Depends". If I am feeling strong and fine then a needle doesn't bother me. If I am woozy, nuaticous, or lightheaded then a needle may make feel even worse.