I think the email confirmation is fine and doesn't add any inconvenience whatsoever. How often do you change your account info that confirming through email is such a pain? Sure, I agree that it's stupid for anyone to give out their account info for any reason, but there are a lot of young kids playing this game, and young kids can be....well....stupid at times (so can adults, actually). At least when somone stupidly gives out his info, the other guy won't be able to lock them out of their own account. Fewer support emails and forum blasting that STS has to deal with.