A question regarding IGN

ashes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Beertown ;P

RoP

E/Mo

Why did Guru choose to remove the IGN from ppls information? (To the left)

Just curious

LicensedLuny

Badly Influenced

Join Date: Dec 2005

Buying Humps! (No kidding! Check my buy thread)

Hello Kitty Krewe [HKK] Forever!-ish

That was removed last Fall, during a period of particularly high account hackings, when ANet started using IGN as a security question.

As to why, I can not say for sure, but it seems reasonable that the Guru leadership felt it appropriate to remove that information which users might have left here, in public view, long before it became a security question.

ashes

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2007

Beertown ;P

RoP

E/Mo

Ohh... Arghhh

Kinda annoying, but i truely understand and appreciate gurus approach

Ty

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Marty Silverblade

Marty Silverblade

Administrator

Join Date: Jun 2006

If you wanted, you could just write 'IGN: blah blah' into one of the other fields. I think the reason for disabling it was so people didn't enter it because it was prompted at registration and not realising it was a possible security risk. There isn't a forum policy on whether you can put your IGN somewhere else if you wanted to.

cosyfiep

cosyfiep

are we there yet?

Join Date: Dec 2005

in a land far far away

guild? I am supposed to have a guild?

Rt/

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/i...t10412495.html

that thread has a little more information as to the whens and whys and wherefors....