I’ve played Overwatch with US account for 6 years. In my country, teenagers need to get a parental approval to create blizzard account, so I made US account in 2016 to avoid the approval. But, some trouble happend to play OW2. To play OW2, all gamers need to verify their own phone number. But I don’t have US phone number. I’m not living in the US and even I haven’t been there. I don’t want to lose my account. What am I gonna do?
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As many people have said… Owell get a phone
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Well if you have a phone number, try connecting it to your account anyway if you haven’t already. If you don’t get an error you’re good to go.
I’ve read you can get a location swap or something so that you can use a phone number of your country instead.
You should contact support and explain your situation if this is the case. I saw something on reddit where someone lived in Japan from US and only had Japanese phone number or something but their account was under US, so they confirmed they moved places and then support changed their location or something so the phone number worked.
Ask support to change your county.
Also you may already be able to choose from a list of countries when entering the phone without having to change it.
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Yeah thats your first mistake.
If you are not a teenager anymore, you are going to have to provide Proof ID or Proof Residence and ask them to change the country to the one you have your phone number in. Otherwise you can’t add it to the acc.
Possibly op lives in a country that’s under US sanctions. Don’t be so sure about everything.
Doesn’t work but obviously still worth a try.
This is possible if op’s country isn’t banned or anything like that. Shame that many people have to live with this stuff…
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There are many countries where parental controls are required to create an account, like in some EU places. Not everything is US related mate.
What I was referring to is that bypassing the account creation rules or terms of use is a mistake, no matter what country you are in … because the moment you have any issue, you can’t get help or its a hassle. Thats my point.
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I don’t think that it is a huge problem to change the region of your account.
People move to different countries all the time and locking them out of their OW accounts would be pretty stupid 
€: Here you go, OP:
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Hence my qualifier.
If he/she is, then parental controls will be needed and the tutor/guardian will need to be involved. Again, you are not going to jail, this not a “huge” problem, but it is a hassle. Enough for this person to bypass the rules and avoid the validation in the first place.
The only real answer to this is “who knows”. We will have to wait and see.
I’m in Canada, pay a monthly cell bill, and even though I have SMS protect and Blizz Authenticator on my account, I’m still concerned there will be some cockup that makes me unable to play.
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Sorry if i made the wrong point
If any country is under sanctions it’s their goverments faults as far as i know, just saying maybe op is dealing with that and that’s why they are not considering to change the region of their account.
Infact i love the US, same as everyother country in the world…
Yeah that could be tricky. I think very specific countries are on a list where you literally can’t even create an account. If that was the case … oof 
Contact Blizzard support and ask them to change the region of your account (if that’s possible ofc). I’m not, you could make a new account but that’ll be bad for progression. The alternative is switching platform and then merging your accounts so you keep your cosmetics.
we hate Rogers amirite
You’re going to be unable to play in US and crap up our games with your high ping. A new glorious age of gaming will be ushered in as we all live in a state of perpetual happiness for all eternity.
…or something like that.
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“Accounts created outside of Korea cannot be adjusted to Korea at a later point as they lack a national ID.”
There is no way to change the region. I hope Blizzard change its policy to be able to verify overseas numbers.
How does this work exactly? Do they have to fax the dev team a copy of their ID with a signed letter saying “I give my child permission to play your game”? or is it just like a box that anyone can just click, similar to “I confirm that I am 18 years of age or older” outside of some websites?
When you create the account and put your details you have to put the age.
If its below that country’s legal requirement, you need to set up Parental Controls. Tutor/Guardian sends ID proof + Child ID proof and its set up on their other mail.
If you just put a fake age, you can move forward sure. Now if you get locked out because you went to a friends house or tried to log in from Highschool or whatever … they will request ID and leave your account locked till the Parental Controls are set up.
You don’t need a US phone number - you just need a phone number