{"id":198,"date":"2018-05-25T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/2018\/05\/25\/account-center-update\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:00:00","slug":"account-center-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/2018\/05\/25\/account-center-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Account Center Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/accounts.eamythic.com\">Account Center<\/a>&nbsp;will be receiving an update next&nbsp;<strong>Tuesday, May 29th, 2018<\/strong>&nbsp;that makes some changes to the center\u2019s authentication flow.<\/p>\n<p>\tThese changes are being made to improve general account security and user privacy by more directly using EA\u2019s robust account authentication system. In addition to improving the Account Center&#8217;s security and users&#8217; privacy, this update also enables us to provide additional future updates and much-requested features to the Account Center such as game account un-linking, account-based character and server lists, and more!<\/p>\n<p>\tOnce the update is live, the following changes will take effect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tWhen logging into the Account Center, users will be redirected to EA&#8217;s website briefly and asked to login there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tOnce successful, users will automatically be redirected back to the Account Center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAll account creation or account-linking services will now occur after a user logs into an existing EA account or a new user creates an EA account.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tThis means users attempting to create a new game account must first sign into an existing EA account or create a new EA account and then follow the &#8220;Create a Trial&#8221; flow as normal.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\tThis also means users who wish to link or recover an unlinked-to-EA game account must first login to an existing EA account or create a new EA account and then follow the &#8220;Link Accounts&#8221; flow as normal.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDuring the &#8220;Link Accounts&#8221; flow there is a new &#8220;forgot my password&#8221; link that will allow users to reset the legacy \u2018Mythic Master Account\u2019 password (note: this is different than the EA account and game passwords!) in the event it was forgotten.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tOnce signed into an EA account all services and systems included but not limited to managing subscriptions, viewing linked game accounts, and resetting game account passwords remain unchanged.<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/darkageofcamelot.com\/content\/account-login\">Account Center guides<\/a>&nbsp;will be updated to reflect these changes as soon as possible!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: The Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Account Center&nbsp;will be receiving an update next&nbsp;Tuesday, May 29th, 2018&nbsp;that makes some changes to the center\u2019s authentication flow. These changes are being made to improve general account security and user privacy by more directly using EA\u2019s robust account authentication system. In addition to improving the Account Center&#8217;s security and users&#8217; privacy, this update also enables&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/2018\/05\/25\/account-center-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-herald-news","xfolkentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathenworkshop.com\/goca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}