Blizzard LIES about Phones

[FooOne-1179]

See Blizzard posted:

Overwatch 2 Launch Status Update

Hello, heroes. Yesterday was an exciting day for the Overwatch team—a day that we know you have been looking forward to for a long time. While millions of people have been enjoying the game, the launch has not met your, or our, expectations. First, we want to apologize to our players. We expected the launch of Overwatch 2 to go smoothly. We hold ourselves to a higher standard and we are working hard to resolve the issues you are experiencing. We want to provide transparency on the issues, fixe…

And today is Oct 7, and the god damned phone requirement is still in place. Blizzard is just straight up lying!

[chaotiiic-1678]

What!? Don’t you guys have phones!!!

[DvaDiff-1921]

Updates hit around 11:00am PST.

So no, they aren’t lying lol

[Kay-12511]

Was your account created before June 2021? I beleive that was the cutoff for the SMS. Any account prior to june 2021 should have access to the game without a cellphone, those made after would still need SMS verification.

[chaotiiic-1678]

I don’t see how that stops smurfs and hackers tho, smurfs have multiple accounts right, so wouldn’t all those accounts have played before June? Makes zero sense.

[Light-13534]

My account was created 2016 Halloween event played every year till the last day but honestly The day isn’t finished

[smeroo12-21284]

finaly someone told me…
i have +44 cuz i bought game while i was in england, and i cant change region
they told me to wait until you will no longer need to put your phone number.

[Kay-12511]

Its a middle ground. People complained about SMS protect, so this is their compromise. While it doesnt stop older smurf accounts it does help reduce newer ones.

[chaotiiic-1678]

Fair point. It sucks that the hackers, trolls, smurfs, and other toxic behavior has to make it so much harder for honest players who just want to play the game, fairly.

[Finn-24929]

@Kay-12511

Was your account created before June 2021? I beleive that was the cutoff for the SMS. Any account prior to june 2021 should have access to the game without a cellphone, those made after would still need SMS verification.

It’s not even that, it any account that was playing OW1 since June 2021…

[Kay-12511]

Yes so if you previously played overwatch with a connected blizzard account then you should be fine. It looks to be that only new players or console players without a connected blizzard account will need to have sms verification enabled.

[Nikushimi-1400]

@chaotiiic-1678

What!? Don’t you guys have phones!!!

Nah the poors with pre-paid phones are not the target demographic for the battlepass system. They are on a whaling expedition, not fishing for minnow’s.

[DragoicBeast-1539]

I even CHeck what ceel phone needed and still can’t use my T-Moble number to add to my battle acc and still can’t added it giving me the same errior.

[Fearnoxx-2555]

My account is from 2009 and playing OW1 almost since launch… still locked out due to SMS protect and unable to change country… self service not working and in the ticket I wait for days they stated I will be able to play today. Unable to add number because I am in a different country rn.

[damnitbinks-1559]

I think they are counting on those alt accounts to get banned eventually. That is just my guess though.

[DragoicBeast-1539]

I found out my phone provider doesn’t work with this new SMS security to OverWatch2