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Logged into my GameStop acct. Trying to change my email from the defunct one. But before I can do that they have to "verify my ID" ...(cont)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
(cont)... by sending a code to my old email address... WHICH NO LONGER FUCKING WORKS. God*damn* I hate this sort of asinine bullshit. >_<
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
They let me change my mailing address and my phone number no problem, but my email? Oh hell no, gotta "verify your ID" first... *facepalm*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
By sending a verification email to a non-existent email address, which is WHY I'M TRYING TO CHANGE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. *double-facepalm*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
Well, if nothing else, that shows you just how fucking long it's been since I've given even the slightest shit about GameStop, I guess.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
Oh well, it's no real loss, honestly. I wasn't even trying to log in to actually buy anything, because the day I buy something ...(cont)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
(cont)... from GameStop again is the day hell freezes over. I was just trying to look up my order history to check something ...(cont)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
(cont)... which I can do without email. Moot point anyway, because apparently my order history is empty, for some asinine reason ...(cont)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
(cont)... but it's still annoying that I apparently can't update my account and am, essentially, locked out of it. Nor do I care ...(cont)
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
(cont)... enough to get it rectified by contacting cust service or anything, because, as I said, I give zero fucks about GameStop otherwise.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
And this only reduced that number of fucks given into the negative values. I am now actively taking fucks away from GameStop, at this point.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) February 19, 2016
Which I have already made, in tweet form, as seen above...
Yeah, that's the gist of it. I was looking at my Amazon and GameStop accounts in reference to the above mentioned comment I made, to see when I bought what and for how much. Had no problems with the Amazon stuff, but the GameStop order history simply wasn't there, at all.
So, in other words, to paraphrase what I said in those tweets, fuck GameStop forever, as far as I am concerned. (And by that I mean the online store, too, not just the brick-and-mortar stores. But then, even before this, I already had plenty of other reasons to say "fuck GameStop forever," I guess.)
This isn't the first time I've been plagued by this "gotta verify your ID before we deign to let you do anything with your own account" issue.
First with Impulse...
Because I don't have access to my old email address anymore (and haven't for over a year now), I can't log in to Impulse anymore.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
This is, of course, the first time I've tried to log in in well over that year's span.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
And because Impulse needs to "authorize" my computer for some inane, asinine reason, it's trying to send a validation code to my old email.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Which is long since defunct.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Goddammit, I loathe programs that "need" to be tied to a specific machine and rejects machines it doesn't "recognize."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Just let me log the fuck in with my user name and password.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
The very first thing I intended to do was change my password to the new one, but now, because it won't even let me log in until I use the...
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Note: I meant "email" in that previous tweet instead of "password." Blargh.
..."one-time password" which was sent to an email address I don't have access to, Impulse is pretty much useless to me.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Good thing I only ever bought a single game using it. I guess I can just uninstall it altogether now since I'm not using it at all. *shrug*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Seriously, I just noticed that Impulse was still installed on my computer and went "Huh, haven't run that in a while."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
So I launched it and noticed that my username was still my old email address, so was like "guess I'll need to change that."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
And then it goes "fuck you, we don't recognize your computer, sending a validation email to your email that you can't access at all."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Well, now it's uninstalled. Guess I can't play Academagia anymore, not that I've played it at all in forever, anyway.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Would have been nice to have been able to play it again at some point, but oh well, I guess.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
Seriously, fuck all this DRM log in validation bullshit.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
<snip a bunch of tangentially related tweets about Academagia, a game I can no longer play because I can't access Impulse anymore, nor can I simply rebuy the game on an actually viable online store like Steam or GOG, because the game isn't on those, at least not at the time of this post anyway. (EDIT) And in any case, I have also since rebought Academagia on Steam, since it finally got released on there. (/EDIT)>
Anyway, the original point is that the Impulse/GameStop app or whatever sucks ass and I uninstalled it because it pissed me off.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) January 4, 2015
And then again later, with Yahoo...
And I now I can't sign into my fucking Yahoo account because it wants to "verify" by sending an email to my old Comcast email, which is gone
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
Why in the shitting fuck can't it just let me log the hell in with my user/pass? Why does it have to "verify" shit? Fuck this.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
Oh well, I never really used Yahoo except to downvote shitty answers on Yahoo Answers anyway, so nothing of value was lost, I guess.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
It still kind of pisses me off, though.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
Oh, and and I guess I can no longer access the OtakuWars! Yahoo mailing list anymore, which sucks. Not that I've done that in years either.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
This isn't the first time I've been locked out of an old ass account I haven't tried to log into for years because it had to "verify."
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
Even though I *know* my goddamn user/pass, I'm still locked out. *sigh* That's the marvel of the digital world for you, I guess. -_-
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
Just sent a request to Yahoo's "Customer Care" stuff. We'll see how that goes, I guess, though I'm not optimistic at all.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
I wonder what other old ass accts I don't recall now I'll be locked out of in the future because they're still associated with the old email
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
I thought I'd already gotten all of them back when I made the big switch-over, but obviously not. *sigh*
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 14, 2015
Welp, I guess my Yahoo account is gone for good, because contacting "Customer Care" was just as useless as I expected it would be.
— Kane Magus (@KaneMagus) March 16, 2015
The only real difference today is that I was actually fucking successfully logged in to my GameStop account, but it still wouldn't fucking let me change my email address without wanting to "verify [my] ID" first, by sending a verification to the old-ass defunct email that doesn't work anymore which is the very fucking goddamn reason I was trying to change it in the first fucking place you goddamn fucking idiotic morons.
Really, in most cases, I guess that "verify your ID" bullshit is actually a good thing, since it helps to prevent fucking shitbag assholes from screwing you over (in theory). But in cases like the above, it is the absolute opposite of a good thing.
Interesting tidbit: Impulse was apparently bought out by GameStop back in 2011, which is apparently when it went to complete shit, from what I can tell. Before I uninstalled Impulse altogether, I let it update, and it just became "GameStop," obliterating any references to "Impulse" in the software at all, and that was when the "gotta verify" bullshit kicked in and broke everything anyway. "Back in 2011" shows you exactly how long it had been since I ever tried to log into Impulse prior to January 2015, since the app on my computer was still called "Impulse" until I tried to run it, and then let it update. This is another reason for me to say "fuck GameStop forever," I suppose. ¬_¬
(Anyway, I'm not sure why I never bothered to make a LJ post about this fucking horseshit until now. At least, I don't recall doing so, or, if I did, I can't find it now. I guess that just goes to show that I post about more shit on Twitter [rather than to LJ] than I thought...)
(EDIT)
Of course, the terrible thing about all of this is that this could very easily be my Steam or GOG account at some point (as opposed to stupid bullshit that I no longer much care about, fortunately), assuming something happens and they want to "verify" and I'm not able to do so, for whatever reasons. That's part of the reason that I tied not just my email but also my cell phone number to at least Steam (GOG apparently doesn't have the option [and it should indeed be an option if such a thing is implemented, never mandatory] to do this, or I'd probably do it with them as well), but then that has its own share of risks. (...and I guess that link there shows that I did actually make a post about this very issue, already. Huh. How about that.)
(/EDIT)
