Originally Posted by
Sylvanie
No "hate" from me, because you're exactly right. Authenticators are not a scalable solution to security. They are better than nothing, but as the online gaming market becomes more and more fragmented, it will be impractical to have authenticators for every game or vendor (even if you only play one at a time).
As it is, I don't even have an authenticator on my battle.net account. This is because I keep my account and computer secure. While that does not make it impossible for me to get hacked, I estimate that the likelihood for that to happen is not any higher than losing an authenticator or for it to stop functioning, in which case I need to go through account recovery also. The risks, in short, are close enough for me to make using an authenticator not worth the extra hassle.
My husband and I do have 2FA on our banking account (which is a whole lot more important to us than any game) and on our gmail accounts (also more important than games, and more difficult to recover than a gaming account). As a result, any system that requires email verification for account changes automatically gives us the benefits of 2FA.