Cheated by Twitch

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I’ve been watching streams for 4 hours to try ang get an OW2 beta key and finally got mine. It got auto-claimed, and I went to my launcher and waited a bit for it to show, seeing as most of my friends that got it said it took a few minutes to get theirs. After about 30 minutes, I go to twitch to see if I maybe forgot to claim it somehow. I come to find out that my twitch was connected to an old username of mine and not my current one. I still even now don’t have my key and I don’t know what to do at this point. I just really want to play OW2 and I feel like I was cheated by twitch.

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If that old username has OW then why not just use it?

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It’s not a name that is used anymore. It’s not like an old account or anything. Twitch still had my old username in it’s system even though it’s a name that isn’t used anymore, yet it still is counted as an account.

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try disconnecting it and reconnecting. i have heard of it working for a few people

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Probably would be wise to double check next time too. I did, and I’m glad I did because I was connected to a different account.

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The issue is it isn’t another account, it’s on old username. This shouldn’t be something that could even happen.

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If it’s the same account but with a name change, then just try the disconnect/connect tip. If not, you changed the name, that’s not on Twitch to keep track of usernames for a different company. Since you knew that you had a name change, you should have checked that first.

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That’s your fault for not double checking the account it was set too.

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It’s still connected. I have Twitch Prime and also claimed the free lootboxes. I was worried about the same thing, but learned it’s due to the delay.

I noticed my linked twitch account was the older name to my battlenet account (I changed it, clearly).

However, I claimed the lootboxes, and they arrived immediately to my account. Still waiting for the beta access.

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Cheated by Twitch

More like cheated by yourself, considering you’re the one who would have linked your old name to your account, not twitch themselves lol.

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oh dam i never changed my twitch name and i first streamed back in 2017 (havnt streamed in 2 years) so yea that may be another technical issue maybe. i thought some people who were saying they changed their name it was with battlenet… it might be on the twitch end