Can someone merge accounts after Overwatch 2 is released?

Where did you see the option to merge? Do I have to get on the PC version to merge the accounts now?

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Same here. And I noticed it changed my profile pic for some reason?

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I’m on ps4 and there’s no option at all for me to merge. It keeps saying there’s a login error (LC-208). Not sure what to do.

I need help! I didn’t have time to go on ow1 before it shut down, so I didn’t merge my accounts. I’m on my old pc acc now; I need to be on my xbox acc.

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I logged in on PC as soon as I got notice that the game went live, almost 3 hours ago, and the first thing I did was confirm the merge. It still says that I’m ā€œin queueā€ for the account merge. At this point, I’m just planning to have a TV night and see if it’s done tomorrow, because my Watchpoint Pack is attached to the console account, so I don’t have access the battlepass right now. (Also I keep getting disconnected, so that seems like it’ll be frustrating.)

On the main menu, at the very bottom below ā€œChallengesā€, I see an option called ā€œAccount Mergeā€. I clicked on that on my PC account and confirmed the merge from there. It now has a bright yellow badge next to it that says ā€œIn Queueā€.

I also see the option on the menu in my PS4 account, with the same badge. I don’t know if it would have appeared if I hadn’t initiated from the PC side first, but it sure seems like it ought to.

FWIW, I’ve seen the ā€œShopā€ option in the main menu appear and disappear a couple of times, so maybe there’s something weird going on with how the menu is populated?

When I logged into my console account, after initiating the account merge from the PC side, I noticed that I only had the cosmetics from my PC account available, except the only player icon that showed as unlocked was the default grey OW logo from 2016. I also didn’t have any of my controller settings. I think this is because I’ve basically logged into the PC account and the console account stuff is inaccessible until it is merged, but I have no idea why none of the player icons are there. I have a good number unlocked that I can see from the PC side.

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It’s not giving me the option to merge, I’m freaking because I don’t want to lose all my progress since 2017, and all the limited edition skins I got. Plus I got the waypoint pack on my old account. I don’t know what to do, I keep pressing merge account but it’s not letting me

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same! i’m so confused, i need help. i can’t lose my progress

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Old Switch player trying to move my progress to my Xbox One S and I don’t see any option to merge accounts on the Xbox One S. No longer have access to the old Switch but I have both my Nintendo account and Xbox account connected on Battlenet and I have no clue what else to do.

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I signed up for the OW2 beta on ps5, when i logged in I was on my old ps4 account that’s level 200+ and has a good amount of money invested into it. I have logged into the main game today, on my ps5, and my playstation progress has vanished and been replaced by my PC account which i have hardly played on.

My PSN is linked to my Battle.net but i do not see any option to merge accounts or whatever it should say on the ps5 . I hope my level 200+ PSN save hasn’t been replaced with my level 9 PC save.

Any advice?

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Same as me I never got time to merge my account and I had hundreds of hours and money spent since OW1 release and now I’m on a level 2 account with nothing on Series X

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I am so sad because my progress disappeared too. Started playing on ps4 and now I am on ps5. I waited for 2 hours to finally get in Overwatch after a year and imagine my disappointment after I saw that I had absolutely nothing. Skins, progress, everything is gone… I did not keep up with the news and saw the post about account merging 10 min ago. Am I completely screwed or is there a way to restore my old account? I really hope there is…

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Is your account linked together already?

You can’t merge 2 different console accounts. Merge is only for console and pc together.

I’ve linked my PlayStation account to my Battle net account but i didn’t merge in ow1, when I logged into ow2 on the ps5 all my items were gone, is there a way to fix this and have my account merged?

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I’m trying to figure out the same thing but find ossifiedtoad replies in this thread because that could help you

Didn’t get the memo of needing to merge before OW2 came out. Now the merge account option doesn’t select is that a bug or will I have to start all the way over in OW2? Both ow1&ow2 have
same battle.net login and on same console

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I’m sorry I’m a bit confused, who is ossifiedtoad?

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Yeah I’ve tried starting the game on pc but since the queue is so long I’ve decided to go to bed, will try again tomorrow.