I won't get in trouble for authorising too many IPs for my PlayNC account, will I?
By
AlishaShatogi,
Posted on: 2011-03-28 08:00 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
It's fine. Dynamic IPs are pretty damn common (unfortunately... one day we'll have IPv6 and none of that jackassery). Probably 50-99.9% of the people on this forum are behind a dynamic IP address (especially anyone on dial up). I'm probably one of the few that aren't atm... but that's because I'm behind a giant sucky NAT, with an ISP that likes to redirect half my pages to their site (read: they're giant jackasses).
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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I simply gave up because of dynamic IPs. Remember if you are in this situation, the IP you have today can be someone else's tomorrow. Likely not a problem with this game due to it's relatively low population but may be a worry for something like bank account access.
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That... Is actually a concern I didn't think to have. They'd still need to know my password, but... Damn.|
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I simply gave up because of dynamic IPs. Remember if you are in this situation, the IP you have today can be someone else's tomorrow. Likely not a problem with this game due to it's relatively low population but may be a worry for something like bank account access.
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Yeah, OK, at least I don't have to worry about my account being suspected of foul play. Heavens knows people have had enough nightmares with overprotective security measures, like those people who couldn't use the PlayNC store because their ISP was giving them IPs which "looked" like they were in another state. Guess I can be glad it's just a fairly minor inconvenience.
Besides, I'm getting pretty good at deciphering that captcha nonsense. I mean seriously? "Education, alutte"? The hell?
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Delicious, isn't it.
Same problem.
Flawed "security" system, and a total pain in the rear.
This has been something of a concern of mine. Practically every time I need to log into my PlayNC account, I'm asked to provide my secret questions, input a Captcha and authorise "this" machine to access my PlayNC account. Thing is, I use a dynamic IP address that I have no control over, and is given to me by my provider more or less every time my connection resets, which is at least once a night since I don't keep my PC on when I'm asleep (no point).
What this means is I've probably collected half a dozen NCsoft Support e-mails telling me I've authorised this or that machine with this or that IP to access my account. And they're all THIS machine. I don't go into my PlayNC account from outside the house. And I know that next time I try to access my account for whatever reason, I'll have to authorise another IP.
Now, this isn't to complain (not much that can be done about it), so much as to ask... I won't get in trouble over this, will I? I have a friend who used to get flagged for fraud with Blizzard all the time because he shared his account with a friend of his (don't tell him I said that) for the sole reason that the account kept getting accessed from different places. And now I'm constantly accessing my PlayNC account from different "places" since my Internet location keeps shifting every time I turn around, even though my house hasn't moved in close to 100 years.
At first I didn't worry, but I had my e-mail address send spam to my contacts, so I've been swapping passwords. The threatening security measures I ran into on other places caused me to be concerned about this more than usual.