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Teach them to make gmail accounts.
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Most of the time being forced to register an email for alts is what turns me from a game. THere has been exceptions due to liking the theme or for friends but in general I won't join a game I must provide an email for or I'll just put not a real email in. which means it could be different from alt to alt.
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And that's why opt-in is one of the best bets.
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For what it's worth -- I agree on the reason things like 'avoid dork via IP match' don't work; that wouldn't cover it on the whole. It'd need to be a tracked thing, and tracked things being opt-in, well, yeah, prone to some fail there. It's why it's very much a pie in the sky wish list sort of dream.
Really, though, the gamer gmail account is a thing of beauty. Not hard to acquire, easy to ditch if ever the need arises (which it generally won't) and sane to manage while keeping minimum safe distance.
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This is why most registration schemes/plans on games fail. We talked about this in other threads, but they are just too easily defeated.
You cannot have registration of any sort, in my opinion, and provide any meaningful level of anonymity. And I can say this because of the sheer amount of asshat staffers that we all know and love that are the most abusive of 'protected identity'.
