Warzone has had sms protect for a while now, and it has a ton of players.
this won’t kill overwatch, it will still get high numbers.
but that does not mean they could do things other ways,.
player count for warzone, not bad for a sms protected game huh?
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Exactly. It’s unfortunately a necessary evil.
Curious what other ways could they do it ?
warzone has sms protect, and through the month of august had 53 million players. and people are still saying ow is going to die cause of sms protect. smh
for those that don’t want to click the link
Warzone Player Count in August 2022
| Live Players | 304,613 players |
|---|---|
| Active Players (30D) | 53,314,049 players |
Did Warzone have this system from day 1 or was it added in later though?
(legit question, haven’t played a CoD game since the PS3 days.)
EDIT: For that matter, does Warzone have the “No prepaid/VoiD/whatever” restrictions that OW2 will?
not sure, but its had it for a while now, its going to be a trend for gaming companies in the future though, i don’t like it, but how else are they going to curb cheaters who don’t want to hassle just to play an online game every time they get banned
They added it later because cheating was a huge problem that was dragging the game down
Yeah warzone is way more popular.
I don’t think ow 2 is dead.
I think it has done self harm set itself back until PvE launches.
Because to be popular and run with the big f2p dogs it’s going to have to be way more generous and do more things to make it stand out from the crowd.
Right now it’s just another f2p to new players. It might be in their long term plans cause there isn’t a huge push for this game like OW 1 launch.
It may be a rough 2022 to grow their playerbase. But we’ll know where things are at after the honeymoon period and we hit season 2.
The phone thing will hurt their multiplayer street cred with kids and casuals that just want to hop in to play something new.
This game will fail, but not because of phone numbers.
Finally, a post with data and facts.
This. So much this. We need more threads like this here. Take my likes!
No it had no sms day I think it’s the last patch since they want to fight hackers. Dota 2 also require sms but only for ranked, and nobody cares about it still number 1 in steam charts.
Noted.
I guess the reason more people are getting upset about OW2 doing it is because Warzone didn’t literally replace its predecessor (i.e. you can still go back and play the previous one if you don’t have a valid phone number/ provider?)
Don’t know for MW2 tbh but I saw no news for sms it doesn’t have it I guess.
Difference is, you can actually use that system. The OW2 system is for an extremely niche amount of mobile phone users. If they don’t make the system work properly for the majority of people, this game is dead on arrival.
people have been claiming so many of us it will affect the game? its not been my complaint. my complaint is im unfairly banned from playing a game that quite frankly i feel i paid for.
sorry your quotations are wrong , unfair is right , ill swap banned to prevented if it makes your pedantic mind happier though. not that it changes anything but you do you.
i get your point would agree but for 2 things ,1 its replacing the product i did purchase, 2nd blizz seem to agree, there giving compensation in game to OW1 owners. and do magically give owners of OW1 ow2. so me and blizz seem to disagree with you there
I’m not gonna judge. But warzone isn’t on mobile plataforms also? I mean ow2 most likely will get a mobile version. But the playerbass of mobile plataforms are way bigger than any other plataform combined. Mobile market is just insane on size. Take diablo immortal as example huge amount of downloads and players despite having their own set of problems
How is unfair right, exactly? They created a system that makes the game MORE fair. You not meeting the requirements is an issue on your end, not theirs. That’s like saying a remaster of your favorite game was unfairly taken away from you when the original closes their servers and the new game has requirements that your PC doesn’t meet.
They don’t give OW1 owners OW2. OW2 is free for anyone to purchase. If they made it a paid game, you would not be given it for free just because you bought OW1. The pack is there to “reward” OW1 players for supporting the franchise in the first place, it’s not a “compensation”. They don’t have to compensate you for anything, by buying the game you agreed that it could be removed at any time and you have no say in it.
Unfair - because of unwarrented. the purpose is to stop smurfs cheats and trolls , ive never done two of theose and the last i believe im in a pretty safe area 
just got salty a few times. as i am not guilty of what is attempting to be fixed it is unfair to restrict me.
and no thats a false equivalence, being restricted because you cant do something like not letting someone whose had any training drive a car for eg thats reasonable. this is like restricting peopel based on skin colour , height or any arbitrary and unconnected method.
i was under the impression OW1 accounts were receiving the unlocked characters, new OW2 free accoutns dont, Ow1 accounts keep thier unlocks and currency, OW2 new free accounts dont.
fine call it a reward , but you do agree its recieved for owning OW1 not for having a phone or pink hair?
you can argue the cointent isnt the game in whole or in part if you want because free to play dont get it without putting in time , buit whatever you call it its only the name your changing.
i did buy Ow1 , i have done nothing wrong , i cant play OW1 or 2 , that is i still think unfair.