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sessionID is vulnerable to stealing cookies. Some games - if you lose your session cookie, you might as well lose your account and everything you have on it.

you can of course bind sessionID to the IP address, but this is extra effort you need to put. in JWT land you can just put the IP addressed inside the payload and forward requests with non-matching IP to reauth and regenerate JWT for their new IP in case customer is roaming networks



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