Guild Wars 2 to add Google Authenticator functionality

It seems that ArenaNet will be taking a page from World of Warcraft and will start offering the Google Authenticator for added account security. As with the Blizzard Authenticator, Google’s device gives a code that the player enters while logging into the game.

This security method is to combat keylogging which allows hackers to gain account passwords.

The Authenticator was revealed in the Guild Wars 2 blog, which stated, ”We know customers also want a native implementation of two-factor authentication, and we want it too. This is an area where we should act faster as a company, and we’re going to. We had our own homegrown implementation of smartphone two-factor authenticator in testing, but we’re going to pull it back and instead integrate Guild Wars 2 with Google Authenticator, which already has robust authenticator implementations on most major smartphone platforms. We expect to roll this out in the next two weeks.”

Guild Wars 2 was released on the 28th August to a wildly positive reception, including a 9.5/10 score from Strategy Informer’s review.