[quote]It's a nice idea in principle but for application? It would seriously piss a lot of people off and most likely drive many away.[/quote] But absolutely nothing would change about the site if you didn't want to verify your account... Just like now, where you can go to your settings and add additional information about yourself, they could add an account verification section. Literally nothing about the user experience would change for any alt account. Only those that wanted to verify their accounts would then do so. Yeah, I'll admit giving CC info does seem a bit sketchy, but I'd trust Bungie. In any case, the ethos of verification isn't important, as long as it can uniquely identify a person, or at least be more difficult to get more.

Many websites use the credit card for verification purposes. The United States Government, in some cases, does too. They don't charge your card, but they verify that it matches the information that you gave them. Works out pretty well, actually.

I could see that working with an official government website but I'd be a bit hesitant to put it onto a game developer's website, even one like Bungie.