@Thenomain said in Identifying Major Issues:
I asked my Millenial co-worker how many people he knew would know how to make a secondary email for junk and things and things and junk, to separate their important stuff from other stuff, and he said about one third.
We here are generally very technical people. I expected him to say, "why would anyone have only one email address", but he didn't. I'm not using this as proof that two thirds of "kids these days" are not technically savvy, but as evidence that "not that hard" is a matter of great perspective.
Having multiple email addresses doesn't have to equal technically savvy. I'd rate myself as very technically savvy, but I don't have a separate email for junk. Did your coworker really say that only one third of millennials would know how to make another email address, or probably have a secondary email address for junk? I do know plenty of non-tech savvy millennials, but I still think most of them would know how to sign up for an email address.
That said, I also freely use my personal email address for game signup things. I used it for Arx chargen, sure. I didn't think about not using it.
The bottom line is that @surreality is building a game with certain functions and a level of wiki integration that requires an email. That is the game she is building, so in this case, the structure of the game does need an email. If folks have strong objections to using an email, personal or burner, they can play other games and it's not a big deal. I honestly don't understand why this becomes such a huge issue whenever it comes up, like the very idea of a MU* asking for an email is so offensive to some people.