IP (Internet Protocol) account restriction

Bolwinkel·3/14/2015, 8:33:08 PM·1 votes·476 views

Just an idea but what if you could manage your account to only be able to be logged in on when you're on an IP that you have registered with your account. With Sony's playstation, this type of thing is use. What they do is that you can have your account set to up to 4 different systems. This is so that you have protection over your account and also to stop game sharing. However, I believe that an IP account restriction would help with account security since people put their credit cards on their accounts and also with all of the time spent on the game. They don't want their credit card stolen or all of the time they put into the game to all be gone. That's why I'd like to have a system that is controlled here on the website. Like how you change your password, etc. you go into you account management and select to log into my account on this IP. Then an email will be sent to you with a pin that you will have to type in and that IP will be saved. The reason I had this idea was because i got a notice that someone had logged into my account and I almost flipped shit because I thought "Oh shit what would they have done?". Let me know what you think.

3 Comments

CaptainTatertits3/14/2015, 9:13:50 PM1 votes

most IP's are dynamic. commercial IP's and old dial-up accounts are often static... but otherwise they are virtually all dynamic. So it would be completely worthless except for a few choice situations. And most of them (universities) have many many people on the same IP, so it could be a false sense of security.

You are implying that it is a security measure, but it is really nothing of the sort. It is just another draconian DRM. I'll save you the lecture on DRM, but suffice it to say that it wouldn't apply to this game anyway.

CaptainTatertits3/14/2015, 10:02:48 PM1 votes

In a nutshell low. but much higher than a random sample of the general population. Also, packet sniffing is passive. You would never know. People do that kind of crap all the time.

My main point is that it doesn't really increase security, and it would be impractical.