This feels very not right... How can they refuse email change? Can only imagine how many people who eventually change their emails and want theirs changed too. What a shitty thing.
You'd be surprised by how many services use your email address as the key piece of information to identify your account with them. It is a horribly stupid practice.
Correct. It's not malicious, it's just bad programming.
Bad code is malicious, change my mind.
Okay, as a software dev, allow me to change your mind:
Bad code is no more malicious than bad writing, bad ideas.
It's like arguing that everyone who's ever had a bad idea or a poorly structured sentence was a troll and not just some moron.
I'm not an expert but in theory it doesn't sound like a bad thing as long as you allow people to change it whenever possible. It feels like people change jobs, phone numbers, usernames, locations, genders, names and yet it's extremely unlikely that they will out and out delete their old email address so it's always something to personally identify someone by. And of course it's always going to be unique unless you're 0.0001% of the population who fuck around with self hosting email or something.
There's plenty of reasons someone might want to discard an email address. You'd even be surprised by the number of people who use their current work email as their personal email.
One of the reasons we cannot reuse email addresses from terminated employees is because there are applications - legacy internal and external third party - which use email address as the identifier. This creates other problems with naming.
I went into some additional detail in another comment nearby.
Poorly designed systems
Lol, the fact that they try to give security advice for an account other than their own... They can't possibly know what sort of email someone has or what they should do with it.
Well, they've got to say something. Whether it actually makes sense is probably not even a secondary concern.
That's what I would do
I am absolutely not shocked that something like this is an issue at BSG
Oh noooo, you'll just have to buy another copy of the game, whoopsie-doodle! Sowwy! 💰
haha, I dont even play the game any more due to the amount of hackers. But I would like to keep the copy that I have bought for a potential later time... defo not buying again tho :P
Did Niantic Labs code their platform?
That would be several steps up from where BSG is.
I was so into Tarkov but BSG doesn't have any competency and I finally got drove away.
SPTarkov can be fun with mods and after tweaking configs.
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