Hardcore Gamer: These sites and services tend to make nice juicy targets for hackers, and the ubiquitous nature of these things means most serious gamers probably have their personal information stored in at a least a couple of different gaming company's sites. Since so many of these companies require personal information in order to makes an account, it falls to them to keep our information safe and secure if we are going to keep trusting them with it.
Can you imagine an always online future?