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I tried to login in FFXIV and they required me to create a new password that contained letters, number and symbols. Than, i went o link my Steam account to SE account and then they said i needed to enter my email to get the verification code. 

 

I remember I used to use for numbers passwords and only had to put my log in and password and that was it. Now I have to use 8 characters mixing letters, symbols and numbers, have to put verification codes sent to my email, SMS or use tokens. 

 

They want to make things safer, but to do this they are making things more complicated and not going to right route. It would be much easier if we remembered a four words sentences as password like ' my horse is brown ` than having to remember something like F4cK.%$@You.



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What's so hard to remember about My_H0rse_Is_Br0wn.?



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I miss the good old days of "password" and "1234".



LemonSlice said:
I miss the good old days of "password" and "1234".


I remember 4 years ago a GM on the German server of Flyff was "hacked". His password was something like "godlike". What a retard :)



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Lost my password for FFXIV, wanted to create a new one .. you have to answer a question you chosed at the creation of your account ..

fuck .. it was 2 or 3 years ago ..who the hell would remember this?

Now, I have to call their really cheap hotline (lawl, just kidding, it'sexpensive as hell).



JazzB1987 said:
LemonSlice said:
I miss the good old days of "password" and "1234".


I remember 4 years ago a GM on the German server of Flyff was "hacked". His password was something like "godlike". What a retard :)

What do you think my password is for this site? ;)



LemonSlice said:
JazzB1987 said:
LemonSlice said:
I miss the good old days of "password" and "1234".


I remember 4 years ago a GM on the German server of Flyff was "hacked". His password was something like "godlike". What a retard :)

What do you think my password is for this site? ;)

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toot1231 said:
LemonSlice said:
JazzB1987 said:
LemonSlice said:
I miss the good old days of "password" and "1234".


I remember 4 years ago a GM on the German server of Flyff was "hacked". His password was something like "godlike". What a retard :)

What do you think my password is for this site? ;)

OrangePeel

Simpler than that, but that's a good idea.



I can understand requiring them to be at least 8 characters... and I am fine with requiring at least 2 types of character sets (lower/upper/number/special) as long as there is a way to leave the choice of types to the user... so it will reject a password with just lower case but accept if you add in any other character.

It's very rare I have come across a login system that forces you to use all four, but yes they are annoying.

What annoys me far more than that though is when you are stopped from using a password with special characters (I believe Photobucket is one example). I can only assume it is through laze as I can't think of a valid reason why they would stop you using them for a password.