Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by Animats on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:43PM (#24424276)

"We're sorry that you were unable to log in with Apple. Here's a discount offer on an HTC U-series phone! And we'll throw in five new Fortnite skins!"

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ffpip on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:11PM (#24424653)

They got every single kid to enable 2FA on Epic Accounts by giving a free skin. My brother even asked me 'how to 2FA?'

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by user5994461 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @07:25AM (#24431204)

They did that in order to collect the phone number from the kid?

edit: Their 2FA can do either SMS or email so that's a yes.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ffpip on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:42PM (#24433983)

No. They did that to avoid VBucks (fortnite money) scams. That happens a lot. So if you want to send or receive Vbucks, they forced you to turn on 2FA. Good move.

They also offer the software token method, but most kids will not enable it.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by mcv on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:32PM (#24426158)

That's a really good way to leverage security. Respect to Epic for that.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by bsder on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:45PM (#24426769)

That's pure genius. Wow.

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Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se... by ffpip on Thursday September 10, 2020 @12:05AM (#24428789)

Exactly. Just look at the search suggestions on google when you search 2FA. The first suggestion is not for important accounts like Google, FB. It's for fortnite.

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