how do I hide my @name

Heinzy

I want to hide my @name, each time I join a guild or talk in one everyone sees half my login info.
This is private information and I would like to limit any chance of someone trying to guess my password.

Thank you

theyancey

No.

Anlaemar

I honestly don't think there is such a feature implimited. Just be sure you have a complicated password consisting of anything and everything on the keyboard (including specials).

Moiskormoimi

You don't. At least, it's not a feature available currently.

Heinzy

I see. I best get my hands on an authenticator then.

Thank you

Arsenic_Touch

Heinzy wrote: »

I see. I best get my hands on an authenticator then.

Thank you

There isn't one.

Apophiss

Arsenic_Touch wrote: »

Heinzy wrote: »

I see. I best get my hands on an authenticator then.

Thank you

There isn't one.

People have been asking for a mobile or physical authenticator since Beta.

You see how well Zenimax listened to that suggestion.

Heinzy

Ah, OK no prob guys.
It would have also been nice to see Elderich log into the guild as opposed to @rogerbill213134

Just looks off

Worstluck

There is a chat mod that will show you the characters name in chat along with account name, but I don't know how well it works. Check it out on esoui.com

EDIT: this is it: http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info189-X4DChat.html

Pyatra

Heinzy wrote: »

I see. I best get my hands on an authenticator then.

Thank you

Make sure your email password and game password are different and secure including a mix of numbers,letter, and symbols, they already have 2 step authentication, just most people are too stupid to realize that. Hint: Login to your ESO account on the main website from a new computer and see what happens. If you don't give your email out they cannot access your account even with your account password... unless you gave away what your email associated with the account is... and they have the password to your email.

Thor

You can get account name by putting character into ignore list.
Can be handy if you want to find who are people slacking in your PvP base while your faction pop is capped.

Beerbong_Ginn

Guilds apply to all characters and apply to your account name. So if your guildmate (let's call him Todd, and everyone hates him) makes a new character named Jimmy Peepants, he'd have to go around to the whole guild saying, "hey everyone, my new character is Jimmy Peepants. Remember that, along with the names of 7 other characters I've created." And everyone will say, "Shut up, Todd, no one likes you." And because no one likes Todd, they would have to ignore 8 names instead of just one.

Runoff

Cant hide it But Telephone Support will change your ingame @handle so its different than your login.
Make sure to tell them its only your ingame @ you want changed.

Done it myself at release.

nerevarine1138

Unless your password is "password", I don't think anyone's going to be guessing it. Besides which, the IP-detection at login is pretty damn sensitive. I've had it go off even when logging in from the computer I always use.

sotonin

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Unless your password is "password", I don't think anyone's going to be guessing it. Besides which, the IP-detection at login is pretty damn sensitive. I've had it go off even when logging in from the computer I always use.

I guess you haven't heard of brute force password discovery. Giving away your user name basically cuts their discovery time in half.

nerevarine1138

sotonin wrote: »

nerevarine1138 wrote: »

Unless your password is "password", I don't think anyone's going to be guessing it. Besides which, the IP-detection at login is pretty damn sensitive. I've had it go off even when logging in from the computer I always use.

I guess you haven't heard of brute force password discovery. Giving away your user name basically cuts their discovery time in half.

So it cuts the time from a 6,000 years to 3,000?

Brute force is not a method of password cracking these days, especially when everybody and their mother locks an account after a limited number of bad login attempts. If your account is compromised, it's because you were phished or keylogged. It's a lot more efficient than playing an infinitely long guessing game.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Runoff wrote: »

Cant hide it But Telephone Support will change your ingame @handle so its different than your login.
Make sure to tell them its only your ingame @ you want changed.

Done it myself at release.

This is correct, @Heinzy‌. (Here's a knowledgebase article about it.) Just contact our Support Team and they can get it changed for you.

Utildai

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Runoff wrote: »

Cant hide it But Telephone Support will change your ingame @handle so its different than your login.
Make sure to tell them its only your ingame @ you want changed.

Done it myself at release.

This is correct, @Heinzy‌. (Here's a knowledgebase article about it.) Just contact our Support Team and they can get it changed for you.

Can't we just get an authenticator similar to Rift or WOW on our phones? That would not only save your support people time, but also money.... C'Mon! :P

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Utildai wrote: »

Can't we just get an authenticator similar to Rift or WOW on our phones? That would not only save your support people time, but also money.... C'Mon! :P

A physical and/or mobile authenticator for ESO is certainly not off the table. We do still hope to be able to provide at least one of those options to our players. In the meantime, the one-time password is meant to act a bit like an authenticator.

fyendiarb16_ESO

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom‌ Can't we just get rid of the fact that we are forced to use our handle instead of our character names? Why not make it a choice?

I am not afraid of my security, at least not because of this issue, but I am massively frustrated that my play style (faction specific alts in faction specific guilds and the ability for a non-guilded alt) is not possible.

seitekisaki

If someone attempts login from a different computer the game requests a pin. A pin is sent to the account owners email address. I thought that was good enough.

UrQuan

Pyatra wrote: »

Heinzy wrote: »

I see. I best get my hands on an authenticator then.

Thank you

Make sure your email password and game password are different and secure including a mix of numbers,letter, and symbols, they already have 2 step authentication, just most people are too stupid to realize that. Hint: Login to your ESO account on the main website from a new computer and see what happens. If you don't give your email out they cannot access your account even with your account password... unless you gave away what your email associated with the account is... and they have the password to your email.

True, I play ESO on 2 different computers (desktop & laptop), and the first time you log on from a different computer you can't do anything until you've entered in the code that they email to the email address they have on file for your account. So if you're dumb and let people know your email address, and your email password is the same as your ESO password then it wouldn't be super hard to crack. Otherwise it's pretty unlikely unless ZOS has a security breach.

Also, for some reason when I installed a new video card in my desktop it acted as if I was signing in from a new computer. Not really sure why that would have an effect on it, but it did.

ZOS_JessicaFolsom

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

This is correct, @Heinzy‌. (Here's a knowledgebase article about it.) Just contact our Support Team and they can get it changed for you.

Just to add clarification to this, your UserId that you login with is one in the same as your UserID in-game. Our Support Team can change it for you, but it will always be the same for both.

danreckerpreub18_ESO

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

This is correct, @Heinzy‌. (Here's a knowledgebase article about it.) Just contact our Support Team and they can get it changed for you.

Just to add clarification to this, your UserId that you login with is one in the same as your UserID in-game. Our Support Team can change it for you, but it will always be the same for both.

As a bit of feedback, I really wish I could set my character name to display instead of my @ name, it really removes any potential RP capabilities, not to mention it serves as an artificial disconnect between guildchat and game-world meetings. If I'm friends with @bobman2020 , but don't know / recall his character name... we could pass each other on a road, and simply not know. The current forced-account-name system is actively interfering with my attempts to communicate with others on a regular basis.

Forcing the mail system to work with @ names is also frustrating. (Aside from forcing me to play inventory tower of hanoi to give things to alts) All a spammer has to do is join one guild, and you have given them the means to irritate every single one of my characters with ease.

Hamfast

Please note that the @Name is only 1/3 of the login information, the password and the IP address are the rest, each time you log in from a new location, you are sent an email to verify that it's you, fail to enter the code, and you can't log in...

Is this perfect? no, not by a long shot, would I like an authenticator, sure I would... I am also thankful that ZOS does not copy the security of one of the Government sites I have used... every 30 to 60 days I need to change my password, it must be 12 to 20 characters and have 2 upper case letters, 2 lower case letters, 2 numbers and 2 special characters... oh, and it can't be the same one you have used in the last dozen times... and if you forget it, you need to reset it and that is a whole new mess.

slbrgt

Why not have a user-definable account wide nickname, instead of half your login info. It would still have all the same advantage of being recognizable in game no matter what character you are playing at the time.

Artis

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Runoff wrote: »

Cant hide it But Telephone Support will change your ingame @handle so its different than your login.
Make sure to tell them its only your ingame @ you want changed.

Done it myself at release.

This is correct, @Heinzy‌. (Here's a knowledgebase article about it.) Just contact our Support Team and they can get it changed for you.

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom, are you going to make this service online-based? Some people just don't like phone talks because of their accents, for example

Also, it might be really frustrating, if the name I want to use is taken and I need to come up with a new one. What if the entire list I prepared is taken? If I did this by myself, I would have a plenty of time to try all the names I come up with.

Apophiss

It also removes any chance of just having a quiet/solo character to run around with, avoiding the tension that goes with being in a raid group or guild at times.

You should have the option of going invisible, I know it is a MMO, but there are times you just want to pick a direction and go, not having to worry about politics and drama.

As it is now, the only way to accomplish this is buying another account.

Elencha

@Apophiss‌ You can also set yourself to show offline. then no one can see you online at all. Follow that up with creating a chat tab that excludes all chat channels and boom: Zero contact until you choose it.

Apophiss

Elencha wrote: »

@Apophiss‌ You can also set yourself to show offline. then no one can see you online at all. Follow that up with creating a chat tab that excludes all chat channels and boom: Zero contact until you choose it.

Thanks! I will do that.

babylon

Heinzy wrote: »

I want to hide my @name, each time I join a guild or talk in one everyone sees half my login info.
This is private information and I would like to limit any chance of someone trying to guess my password.

Thank you

You know what's worse? Any goldseller can add your name to their ignore list to quickly get your @handle as well.

All you need to do is run past them and they'll have half your login info.