Why exactly are we shocked that VOIP numbers aren’t working for phone verification?
Blizz is famous for doing literally everything wrong. This is just another funny screw up from the kings of screw ups.
At this point OW2 is just a comically bad rollouts. Even before the servers are up
Whatever you think about OW2, I think we can all agree it both could have, and should have been bettered handles. It’s an uphill battle going forward.
Wouldn’t necessarily call this a failure because it’s been out there for awhile on the phone number requirement. Yes it sucks but it’s not a failure on their part.
Welcome to programming, were everything is tested and filled with holes at the same time.
Some of the best software out their is held together by duck tape and rusty spoons if you know where to look.
tf2 has a picture of a potato that is a required file for it to operate, no one knows why. You could litterially delete all the textures/models/animations and the game will boot into a game filled with error signs. yet this potato will require you to verify and fix your files.
Requiring a non-voip number was the move they needed to make years ago and I support it. It would be better to require a government-issued ID, but we’ll have to wait until more people are onboard with that method.
My takes may be hot for some, but it’s not trolling I assure you. I really do believe what I am saying. Mobile phone 2FA with ID backup recovery would be ideal.
It’s not even hot, it’s impractically stupid. How on earth would a private company verify government IDs lol. Do we just give them access to governmental databases?
I am sorry you don’t agree, but there are methods for verifying IDs. Two such private companies that do this are Facebook and Coinbase. Given that Blizzard will be a part of Microsoft soon, I believe they would have the resources to enforce such a constraint for their games.
I’m pretty sure thats why they want you to verify beforehand, so they can test this out in mass. To find all the weird edge cases. As phone numbers have a habit of jumping providers, if not between burner/contract status.
As most burner phone companies either buy or are handed valid numbers from the contract related companies that, do to them being parent companies or needing some quick cash.
First off, you really should not be trusting Facebook with anything, much less your personal ID.
Secondly, you don’t think there’s a little bit of a difference between a public facing account with an irl name attached and user CzechErFace?
In fact I’m game if you are. let’s pair faces and addresses to every account. Let’s have public only profiles and let’s see who user CzechErFace is and where they live, no?
Imagine the swatting that would come from that.
It’s just a stupid idea not going to lie.
As for Coinbase, financial apps do make sense for an id given all the fraud potential and whatnot.
Their new 100 matches system should do that (even if i doubt it will) this is just yet another nuclear option trying to fix something instead of other reasonable ways (im looking at you 5v5 >.>)