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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
Why would Activision care? That's silly.
Windows Live ID is the only method available to us to gain authenticated access to your gamertag. Without it, we don't know what your Xbox Live account is.
Even in a theoretical migration, bungie.net has no access to either your login or your password. We send you to live.com, you sign in there (watch where you get sent when you hit sign in), and that site send you back to us with a secure cookie use to attach you to your local data (profile, forums, groups, etc.)
That being said, we are very aware that the current implementation is... less than ideal. Part of the problem is interacting with systems outside of our control, but we can do better. Improving the sign in/identity/account management aspect of bungie.net is pretty high up on our list of "things we need to get better at".
Think about it - we want it to be very easy to join and have a positive experience in this community. If the sign in is in any way difficult, it turns people away. That is very bad.
Posted by: Full Time Loser
I was wondering this myself. I bet Activision isn't too happy about them still using a Microsoft sign-in system.