Why would anyone not want to make their online stuff more secure, be it epic, steam, uplay, origin, battle net or anything online, and you don't need add your phone, a email will also do work, the email you use to sign into epic will also work and is all done in 10 seconds. lol

kakiharaFRS:

the only point of 2 factor is to get your phone number etc...security is just an excuse because they don't care as much on their side of the server

Two-Factor Authentication. Not SMS AUTHENTICATION!

Yeah it's not perfect (EA Origin has had a number of breeches for example although I've thankfully avoided getting the account surprise password changed.) but it's a good improvement, just wish Steam had something better or went with Google's RNG instead of their wonky app but it's a security improvement. (Since it doesn't send a SMS or anything and it should be possible to check permissions and all that it's also possible to not give permissions to various phone data or use a desktop app for authentication too or instead of a app.) EDIT: Might have been a A instead of a E but whatever, underwear, security. Still potentially full of holes.

XP-200:

Why would anyone not want to make their online stuff more secure, be it epic, steam, uplay, origin, battle net or anything online, and you don't need add your phone, a email will also do work, the email you use to sign into epic will also work and is all done in 10 seconds. lol

SMS is a bad idea dog 🙂

Noisiv:

SMS is a bad idea dog 🙂

^^^In a perfect world yes, but it's better than no security at all, but it is not like epic are offering only sms, they have a few 2fa avalible. 😉

XP-200:

^^^In a perfect world yes, but it's better than no security at all, but it is not like epic are offering only sms, they have a few 2fa avalible. 😉

we're on the same page dog. 2FA > sms | email

^^^Cool daddio.....see, i am still down with the cool kids.....right. lol

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^^^Cool daddio.....see, i am still down with the cool kids.....right. lol

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sverek:

Isn't it just a measure to prevent bot accounts from claiming games?

Nope, you can still do bot account with 2FA 2FA is just a little bit secure than normal, but the interest of this is elsewhere... If it was a security interest it would be with more modern system.

I think it is a great move from the Epic store , it feels more secure. I just activated 2fa on my Epic account with an old email , easy peasy and done with it 🙂