Loris wrote:
I have a friend I asked to try FFXI since I have purchased the game 4 times over the years so I had so many extra content IDs laying around. He gave up because of the confusing system and basically refused to try again. Ironically enough, he recently purchased the rerelease of FFVII through Steam and they also require you to have a SE account for the cloud saves. Well, he had created one and forgotten the info from his attempt to sign up for XI and attempts to create a new one was even more difficult because the SE account is linked to his email, and it won't let him create another with the same email...on and on. Trying to contact support again was a roadblock, because the North American support center is not 24-7 and was closed all weekend. All I could do was chuckle, but what SE probably doesn't realize (or care?) is that my friend is so disgusted by the process that he probably will never purchase a new SE product ever again.
Just make a new hotmail address specifically for SE account management system.
The info you use to sign up for hotmail doesn't have to be 100% accurate either but if you think you may have issues remembering login info for your email and SE account then write it down and keep it safe.
(Yes I know your not supposed to write down passwords but I'd be lost otherwise.)
btw the stuff Catwho posted about is pretty much the jist of it.
If you ever buy a SE token or download the free app for extra security purposes, then you'll have another code to type in to access your account.
(You can actually save all your passwords in your pol settings, apart from your SE password which you will need to login everytime you wish to access your account.)
You do not have to create a member password if you don't want to but you do need to make a pol password and an SE password.
