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Posted October 26, 2016
There should be alternate ways to log-in your account other than your email like a phone or alternate email.
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Posted October 26, 2016
There should be, yes.
So...what's your question?

I apologize if this seems condescending/you already know this, but:
The forum does not work as a suggestion box. The staff rarely reads anything here, and all you're going to get is comments from the community, who's been here a long time and is already intimately aware with the various problems of this website.
You're better off emailing your suggestion to support or calling them out on it on Twitter or something.
Post edited October 26, 2016 by zeogold
Posted October 26, 2016
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zeogold: There should be, yes.
So...what's your question?

I apologize if this seems condescending/you already know this, but:
The forum does not work as a suggestion box. The staff rarely reads anything here, and all you're going to get is comments from the community, who's been here a long time and is already intimately aware with the various problems of this website.
You're better off emailing your suggestion to support or calling them out on it on Twitter or something.
There is also the site features wishlist.
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1Game4uall: There should be alternate ways to log-in your account other than your email like a phone or alternate email.
There are some entries on the wishlist already. Please vote for some of those, or make another one if they don't cover what you're asking for.

Two that I found quickly are:
Two-Factor Authentication / 2FA Support for Mobile Apps via Open Standard
Provide token generation via TOTP for 2FA as an alternative to "Code per Email"
Post edited October 26, 2016 by Maighstir
Posted October 26, 2016
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zeogold: There should be, yes.
So...what's your question?

I apologize if this seems condescending/you already know this, but:
The forum does not work as a suggestion box. The staff rarely reads anything here, and all you're going to get is comments from the community, who's been here a long time and is already intimately aware with the various problems of this website.
You're better off emailing your suggestion to support or calling them out on it on Twitter or something.
what makes you think the op will return ?
these kind of threads are usually hit and run
Posted October 26, 2016
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snowkatt: what makes you think the op will return ?
these kind of threads are usually hit and run
It's at least worth trying.
You can't just say "oh it's another one of those spammers" just because the guy's new. If I had that attitude shown to me when I first came here, I'm not sure I'd have stayed.
Post edited October 26, 2016 by zeogold
Posted October 26, 2016
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snowkatt: what makes you think the op will return ?
these kind of threads are usually hit and run
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zeogold: It's at least worth trying.
You can't just say "oh it's another one of those spammers" just because the guy's new. If I had that attitude shown to me when I first came here, I'm not sure I'd have stayed.
eh its gets grating after a while though
Posted October 26, 2016
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zeogold: It's at least worth trying.
You can't just say "oh it's another one of those spammers" just because the guy's new. If I had that attitude shown to me when I first came here, I'm not sure I'd have stayed.
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snowkatt: eh its gets grating after a while though
Especially your threads,whinger!
Posted October 26, 2016
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1Game4uall: There should be alternate ways to log-in your account other than your email like a phone or alternate email.
Why alternate email? Why not just use your primary email which you have set in the account settings and which you use with your other GOG correspondence (like where you receive your GOG purchase receipts, for discussion with the support etc.)? Do you mean there should be two email fields in the settings?

I'm just trying to figure out cases why that would make any real sense. Hey, how about three different email accounts? Or ten? A hundred? Why?
Post edited October 26, 2016 by timppu
Posted October 26, 2016
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1Game4uall: There should be alternate ways to log-in your account other than your email like a phone or alternate email.
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timppu: Why alternate email? Why not just use your primary email which you have set in the account settings and which you use with your other GOG correspondence (like where you receive your GOG purchase receipts, for discussion with the support etc.)? Do you mean there should be two email fields in the settings?

I'm just trying to figure out cases why that would make any real sense. Hey, how about three different email accounts? Or ten? A hundred? Why?
I've no idea in this case. I mean, I can certainly understand why you'd want to have a secondary "security" e-mail address associated with an account that itself provides e-mail (because you may not be able to get into said e-mail if the account had been compromised, so you'd want the restore information sent to another). But for something like GOG that does not provide an e-mail service? No, I can't really figure that one out.
Posted October 26, 2016
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Maighstir: I've no idea in this case. I mean, I can certainly understand why you'd want to have a secondary "security" e-mail address associated with an account that itself provides e-mail (because you may not be able to get into said e-mail if the account had been compromised, so you'd want the restore information sent to another). But for something like GOG that does not provide an e-mail service? No, I can't really figure that one out.
I was thinking was the idea for people who are very inactive in GOG.com, like logging in only once a year or something, and the primary email account that they used to register to GOG doesn't work anymore? That could be one such case... but then I am unsure if such inactive users would really have had the foresight to add an alternate email address as well to the settings, figuring out "Well I come here so rarely that better put a secondary email as well, in case I stop using the first one at some point...". I mean, why then not put that secondary email as their primary one, if they feel it will stand the test of time?

I think that was mentioned in some other discussion too, ie. people using throwaway email accounts to register to GOG.com, and not remembering the email password anymore so that they could read the one-time verification code from there (if for nothing else but to disable the two-step verification), effectively locking them out of their GOG accounts.

I mean, that's the email account where all their GOG receipts and GOG support staff emails go, so why the heck use a throwaway email account for something like that? Unless, of course, the GOG account itself was also considered as a temporary throwaway account, but then why care if you can't log into it anymore?

I'm just asking questions trying to comprehend this vast universe, with its black holes and all.
Post edited October 26, 2016 by timppu
Posted October 26, 2016
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timppu: I'm just asking questions trying to comprehend this vast universe, with its black holes and all.
Well, there is a reasonable hypothesis that the universe itself may be inside of a black hole. Which would actually explain a lot of things.

Just not the OP's question. Or lack thereof.
Posted June 26, 2021
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zeogold: There should be, yes.
So...what's your question?

I apologize if this seems condescending/you already know this, but:
The forum does not work as a suggestion box. The staff rarely reads anything here, and all you're going to get is comments from the community, who's been here a long time and is already intimately aware with the various problems of this website.
You're better off emailing your suggestion to support or calling them out on it on Twitter or something.
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Maighstir: There is also the site features wishlist.
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1Game4uall: There should be alternate ways to log-in your account other than your email like a phone or alternate email.
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Maighstir: There are some entries on the wishlist already. Please vote for some of those, or make another one if they don't cover what you're asking for.

Two that I found quickly are:
Two-Factor Authentication / 2FA Support for Mobile Apps via Open Standard
Provide token generation via TOTP for 2FA as an alternative to "Code per Email"
Thank you so much for the info, sorry for the very, very, very late reply Mate! I thought this site was having to with questions, problems, bugs, mods and suggestions in general. Plus I don't get emails notification's when someone or somebody reply's to my posts. I don't know why that is so! Anyway thank again Mate! I really appreciated the info.
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