So, I'm probably screwed

[Lyrise]

If you remove OTP from your account, but you've already logged into the game for the day, you have until the next day before access is gone. Same goes for recurring rewards. As long as you re-establish OTP within the same day, the system treats it as if you never removed it at all - you would still retain all of your rewards at whatever level you had it at.

[Great Pan]

Could this be the Gaijin Purge we longed for?

[Sirius-91]

Could this be the Gaijin Purge we longed for?

No.

Needs mass banning for that to happen.

[Zysets]

Could this be the Gaijin Purge we longed for?

How so? Either you switch authenticators or if you never used one, it doesn't affect you.

[wefwq]

ahah np i know its google ...btw i was thinking killing the otp service and at the same time swich to google would still cause some kind of conseguence on OTP storage? or everything will be fine like before?

Should not affect your OTP storage, the worst probably you can't put any item on it but you can still pull your stuff out from the slot in case you disabled OTP/G.Auth.
Though, if you removed OTP and activate Google Authenticator right away before logging in to the game, you should not run in any problem at all.

Could this be the Gaijin Purge we longed for?

How so?
Google Authenticator are harder to work with when user ran into problem, i give you that yeah since user have to contact SEGA instead of the service provider, unlike Third Networks OTP.

[toragyo]

Does Google Authenticator need any sort of SMS verification at all to setup or does it work pretty much the same way as SecureOTP?

[wefwq]

Does Google Authenticator need any sort of SMS verification at all to setup or does it work pretty much the same way as SecureOTP?

There's no SMS verification to setup authenticator for your SEGA ID.

[gabor100]

So, I'm probably screwed. I need either my secret password, birthday I put in when I first made the account, or the name I put in when I first made it, I don't remember any of these.

am I screwed out of my 2500+ hours, all my items, and characters?

if there's any fuck up, my account will be good as dead. "rip account"

it also sounds like I'm going to be SOL

I am in a similar position

Could this be the Gaijin Purge we longed for?

That's why we gaijins use OTP/GA, to lock yourselfs out from your own account and blame SEGA!

[[Ayumi]]

That's why we gaijins use OTP/GA, to lock yourselfs out from your own account and blame SEGA!

Um, there was a time that secureOTP said it was sync'd and it wasn't.
So every OTP it gave me didn't work and after the 7th time it locked me in.

Of course I mailed them and they fixed it within a few hours, but yeah it's not my fault that the stupid thing didn't sync when it said it was.
If the same thing happen with Google, then it's my fault? Alright.

[gabor100]

If the same thing happen with Google, then it's my fault? Alright.

Why should it be your fault?

It's SEGA's fault cuz they pretty much give no support to people outside of Japan and google authentication lockouts are technically perma-ban for people outside japan.

Those bastards!