Temp suspension for pre-ordering a book from SE?

[Kuzulo]

I'm going to have to remember not to buy stuff, I guess; I'll also have another reason to remain subscribed to Wow.

It makes no sense to do this to a player, who is subscribed to the game.

Is the security "token" a goofy thing, like with Wow? I refuse to use that with Wow, since people have had trouble with it if a level of authorization is down (or if something is wrong with their phone, or what not.) Also - since we are now on the BFA expansion, while the only problem I ever had (from a probable web trojan, from wowhead or something) was during the Burning Crusade expansion (so eons ago, with Blizzard nearly instantly giving me back the account, as well as all items), it doesn't seem to have a point.

Yeah, I just read about the FFXIV one:

You need to write down an "emergency removal code", in case something goes wrong/you can't access your phone.

[polyphonica]

It makes no sense to do this to a player, who is subscribed to the game.

Really, the main issue is that they make it sound scarier than it really is. "Temporary suspension" makes it sound like you've been banned for doing something wrong or something, but really it should just say that your account was "locked." All you actually have to do is reset your password, and it immediately unlocks. And as was mentioned, if you use a token, you will avoid this entirely. If they could update the translation of the email text to use more helpful language, it'd avoid this sort of shock factor.

That said, I do recommend the one-time password solution anyway, since it also gives you a free teleport destination in-game. I would also recommend storing your emergency password in a password vault like LastPass or something like that (and using a service like that in general to have unique, secure passwords for all your online services).