One time password Authenticator - Mobile App?

[Delsus]

It doesn't change anything, time is money. And SE have absolutely no reason to waste money on this right now. When you pay one hour of "app devs time" you could have used that money to pay "game dev time" (or even Lodestone dev time (the site could use some improvement as well, same goes with our forums which has been rubbish for a while)).

So get outside your bubble, this is a super low priority issue, only a comfort matter for the few customers the game currently have, nothing more.

- It won't bring new customers in
- It won't reduce the number of compromised account cases for now (very low threat level / players who wanted a token already have a physical one)

Also do you have an idea why companies wants their customers to secure their account? To save money and decrease customer service costs with compromised account cases. They don't really care about YOUR security, they care about them spending less money trying to help customers who got compromised (typical case where the customer must be helped at any cost or there is a high chance for him to cancel his subscription).

So when you add that up, you understand that there is little to no chance to see an auth app before 2.0. (maybe beta so app could be tested before release)

SE will already have the app devs on the payroll, from what I saw in an earlier post SE have an account on iTunes, the have a play store accont, they have apps published, it would cost the NO MORE, they just pull devs from other apps to make it.

[Antipika]

SE will already have the app devs on the payroll, from what I saw in an earlier post SE have an account on iTunes, the have a play store accont, they have apps published, it would cost the NO MORE, they just pull devs from other apps to make it.

Lol you obviously know nothing about development, human resources and cost management. Apps dev could be done by employee working freelance, meaning that they get paid according to the time they work. You increase the workload? It costs you more money. It is also fairly possible that these apps development is fully outsourced (which is more and more common nowadays). Same in that case, the more work, the more it costs you.

And even if there are full time employee working on mobile apps, again, same. Either they have "free time" to dedicate to this (in that case it means that resources are poorly managed, since you shouldn't have employee paid sitting around doing nothing in your company). Either they are busy with other projects, you increase their workload, you have to pay them overtime...

[Delsus]

Lol you obviously know nothing about development, human resources and cost management. Apps dev could be done by employee working freelance, meaning that they get paid according to the time they work. You increase the workload? It costs you more money. It is also fairly possible that these apps development is fully outsourced (which is more and more common nowadays). Same in that case, the more work, the more it costs you.

And even if there are full time employee working on mobile apps, again, same. Either they have "free time" to dedicate to this (in that case it means that resources are poorly managed, since you shouldn't have employee paid sitting around doing nothing in your company). Either they are busy with other projects, you increase their workload, you have to pay them overtime...

Check out this current PERMANANT vacancy at SE Europe http://www.square-enix.com/eu/en/jobs/#SEE-GDS

It takes one dev to pull off another project to make an app, yes that takes longer but its all thats needed.

You obviously know nothing about development, software is always being developed, working on new projects debugging current software, take one dev off SE's free apps that they make no money from to make the authenticator and its win win.

SE has just announced lifetime discounts for us all they can afford one person to write an authenticator app, this discount costs them more than moving one or 2 devs to make an authenticator (doesn't even need to be involved with FFXIV, just work for SE)