I first opened my account at the beginning of Overwatch 1. I played from Australia, eventually moved to Norway for my wife and just continued to play on that account no problem. All my years of Battle.net gaming has been on that account, never even thought to change regions because I never had to. Until this SMS stuff started.
Long story short. I submitted a ticket almost 5 days ago with all of the information they have asked for / could need, and it still hasn’t even been replied to. The ticket is still open and there has been absolutely no activity at all.
I get there is a lot going on for them, but reading around… other people with the same issue have had theirs resolved, so why not mine? Guess I’m just unlucky…again.
The whole system of changing your country is so messed up. The automatic system is completely fake. It asks me questions about Hearthstone, which I have never even played. It asks me when my first Wow character / account was created. I’ve tried entering several times what I think is correct but I can clearly see no load attempt happens after I enter anything, it just automatically goes to the ticket system.
Well, seems like I won’t be playing. Guess I should have wrote down the date of when I made my first WoW character right? lol or changed it 6 years ago to prepare for this… just unreal.
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Hey man,
I’m going through the exact same problem right now cause I wanna play OW2 and it seems like the support team isn’t responding at all.
Would hate to create a new account and lose all my progress all because their system for changing regions is extremely tedious, hoping for the best for you
Ticket times are around a week right now due to a huge backup. Wrath release for WoW, ban waves, account access, transfers, country changes, etc.
That is not normal. Normally they run around 24-48 hours or less.
Hopefully they can get to your ticket soon.
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I’ve been 4 days waiting for my ticket to be responded, This is going to be a sh1t show again…
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we will have to wait. It’s been 2 weeks without a response from Blizzard… If it takes so long to change a number or country, then what’s left for me, that my account was stolen. Anyway, let’s hope this service improves
We should bring all these country change issues up front in here, they should really do something about this
Same as OP, moved countries. It’s weird they haven’t fully automated this with a dropdown list or something like that. And allow 1 change every X months and THEN only then if you need to change again before X months, then you open a ticket.
They might have not anticipated this, since it usually took 2 days max for the change. Let’s hope they change that part of the system (for their sake and ours).
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Same problem here, I was so happy to play OW2 on Xbox with my friend. Try to play, have to use a battle.net account. Ok I remember I have one from way back. Reset password, link Xbox account (can’t be changed for 365 days it says) easy. Think I’m good to go. Try to play, no you must add phone number. OK no problem, but then I can’t change the country code. I made my acc back when I was studying in the Netherlands, but I’ve been back in Germany for ever. Can’t change the country at all, have to upload a bunch of stuff and now I’m just waiting? Terrible system, I work I was going to play today.
If I had known the what a kafkaesque system was behind this (that makes life harder for blizzard support and us) I’d have just made a new account and linked that to my xbox account. The questions that I have to answer before the upload ticket page are rediculous. I don’t know if I ever played Wow, and I only played Hearthstone for a tiny bit. Asking what packs I opened recently, I haven’t logged in to this acc. for years. Who comes up with these impossible questions?
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Now I see people saying ticket waiting times are a week+, I’ll never get to Try OW2 at this pace.
I am also waiting on my ticket it says open for past 2 days. Anyone can tell me the guideline to upload an ID proof. I have been waiting to play wz 2
Here you go.
Wait times are still longer than they should be right now, so hopefully they get to you soon.
The fact that we are almost in 2024 and they still have not found a better way of doing a region change is absolutely absurd…
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Well i bought CoDMW3 yesterday feb 22nd 2024.
I was happy that the game downloaded fast and i was going to play. to my surprise a created an account and now COD asks for a phone number in order to play.
Try to enter my phone number, it shows error. Try to contact support via phone NO HUMAN BEING on the line to sort this issue out. Only automated systems that make no sense at all. Press 1 for customer service, press 1 for Cod, when you press it, it will refer you to go online to get support. I mean why the hell you have a support phone number, that sends me back to the same website i’m trying to get support from and not getting it.
I created tickets one of them they replied and that they changed my country.
To my surprise i can’t see the change and still can’t add a phone number.
If i knew that blizzard was this “GOOD” i would have gone to steam!
Let’s see till when i will be able to play the game, that is not even cheap.