Can't say I agree with you Fabz, I've never played a game with a pin code on your bank; I'm sure I'd find it incredibly irritating. You speak about hacking like it's a common occurrence, in all my years of playing MMOs I've never had it happen to me, and heard about it happening to less than a handful of friends.
With all the scamming that goes on in game I'm not surprised people get 'hacked', I've seen plenty of kids on these forums saying they'd lost stuff, and every time it
turns out to be a fault on their part.
Some simple rules that will steer you in good stead:-
- DON'T SHARE YOUR ACCOUNT. Most MMOs don't even allow account sharing, for obvious very good reasons.
- DON'T EVER GIVE OUT YOUR ACCOUNT EMAIL OR PASSWORD. Especially not to let someone 'buy you platinum'. If you are a minor, and can't buy your own platinum, you need to ask permission from your parent/guardian or pay for an iTunes card. We were all young once, and we didn't always get what we wanted, I had to clean my dads car once a week to pay for my subscriptions so deal with it.
STS
need to enforce a no account sharing rule, it does happen in games that don't allow it, but the important thing that all of the naive people need to learn is;
you share your account and get scammed - it's YOUR fault.
Funny story actually - I let this guy I met on the Internet share my house once; one day I came home to an empty house, so I phoned the police and was like 'omgwtf I got hacked!!!111oneoneeleven', you know what they said? 'Welcome to
the real world.'
That was infact, not a true story. But you get the idea.