EDITED. Need an option to hide @ID. Its not safe for the account owner. Its a really bad idea.

tw1jaysin

jpsgamingb14_ESO wrote: »

Also doesnt guild wars 2 use your email to log in and then your ID is in game only and forums? thats how it was when I last played.

That's right,I forget about that, but I still don't think ESO's system is a huge security risk. If someone tries to log in from an unfamiliar IP they're locked out an an e-mail is sent to you. And that's only if they got your password some how.

Not to mention e-mail addys as login names are no more secure considering how easily they are to find. I def give out my email addy, but never my usernames.

pborerb16_ESO

I love the game, but I'm amongst those who are rather unhappy with the ID handling. Privacy is one thing, and I agree:

lordrichter wrote: »

Now.... let's talk about public usernames and PRIVACY because that is an entirely different story. The '@'ID scheme in Elder Scrolls Online steals privacy from the users. Different characters can be linked to a single account, stalkers can follow characters by username and there is no place that one can hide.

It's also breaking immersion in role-playing guilds. As you're not a guild member with a specific character, but with your whole account, people are trying ways to still "play" as the character in guild chat e.g. by prefixing the character name in chat, but that's rather cumbersome. Also, many account names obviously were created when people didn't know that the account name will be used prominently in the game. I would very much like it if it were possible to at least choose a "display name" for guilds, without changing the "be a member with all your characters" approach. So that you could choose which character name gets displayed in guild chat instead of your account name.

Roibeard

Spacemonkey wrote: »

Ummm ... I now know all of your forum ids and will proceed to hack your accounts one after another?

Then again, you can't use our forum ids to access our accounts, and we don't have payment information stored on the forums. So, in a way the forums offer better security than the game itself.

While it is technically true that your password should be chosen to hold up on its own, it wouldn't hurt to have another line of defense. And yes, a lot of sites use your email address for login, but for these you always have the option to use multiple addresses, if you want some added security. You could use one for actual email communication, one for web forums, and one for shopping sites like Amazon when you have your payment details stored on the account. With ESO you don't have that option. You have your ID exposed, and everybody knows that this is your login name for your ESO account.

Tandor

There is no reason for anyone in-game to know anything about you except the name of the character they are dealing with.

Alts, log-in details, user ID, password, forum and social media handles, and email address are all none of their concern, just like your real-life details. Neither your friends nor your guild need to know anything about your account whatsoever except the name of the character they are dealing with, the rest is none of their business, and it should not be provided to them by the developer - and certainly not without your express consent rather than by non-optional default.