No game is completely safe from those. They will find a way to beat the system. Even Valorant’s Vanguard or Apex’s VAC has been beated by hackers but it had help squander those individuals. Even then they have not alienated their consumers due to the outside purchases and agreements such as a type of cellular service. Which is why I don’t understand why doesn’t Blizzard go with an VAC system akin to Valorant, Apex, or Valve.
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At this point flagging this person for trolling. Their responses neither add to the discussion or help the awareness of the discussions. They are belittling people and taking others’ post extremely out of context to suit their needs.
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Oh no my thought process has been challenged whatever shall I do?! I know! Ill just abuse the report system to the very company I’m protesting! Lol, never change 
It’s true.
I really think the most logical thing to have done was to just place it on Comp where it really counts. That is where people try going for the big leagues. I don’t know any other way they can go about this issue as I have said in many other posts, they for sure will not just drop SMS because this is prob a requirement from the higher ups or whatever. If anything they will try to work around the SMS and find other means to use it without traffic block.
How long will that take? That is the question.
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No they are right, this isn’t even about having their thought process challenged - actually it very much isn’t. The person they are talking about is arguing in bad faith. There’s some people that are literally just like talking to a brick wall to and it’s pointless to waste time with them.
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Is not trolling. I asked for data on their claims. Can you provide it unlke them? I bet you can’t. Howling into the wind and reporting people who don’t agree with you, doesn’t make you the winner lol.
Perhaps 5 minutes.
Plus it will spread on the internet.
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No, it doesn’t, but to be completely fair no one has really provided any solid arguments anyhow, everyone is just going “well Blizzard this or that or whatever” or sometimes even just resorting to personal attacks.
I find it strange that users who have valued their accounts for many years are getting involved.
They do not act in a way that would get their account banned.
i personally never come on here since i am doing life but since this affects me, i wanted to say my piece and help spread the word since Support and Tech support said to as well, there wasn’t much they could do. When it ends, that’s when i’ll leave again since ill then either be playing OW2 or not.
most probably make another account as you said to not get their main one banned, which i understand. others do like for fun to make others to troll or whatnot. some just have to because they were permabanned i suppose.
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You can’t really have a honest conversation when blizzard leaves everything open ended and without statistical data for analytics. The cell phone issue for a lot is unfortunate but there is nothing I or anyone else can do, even going to the very T of tribalism. If it is unfair, vote with your wallet and time and go somewhere else. If enough people don’t play and it starts hurting their bank accounts, I assure you change will come.
EXACTLY!
And here you and I can both agree.
suppose it depends on the info wanted and given and if these people will take it seriously as fact or brush it off because they don’t wish to see it anyway by countering it with nonsense. Info is only as good as the person willing to accept so both parties have mutual understanding because otherwise, denial will make them see otherwise despite being fact.
On google, 74million US people have pre paid phones alone. just going up. a good percentage of Europe (like 30-35%) especially are on pre paid plans. Also, everyone has tried implementing their number and have been proven to have major complications, pre paid or post paid so not sure what people want to know?
there are also tons of threads with info on them. just gotta search them.
Yes, I agree. I know they aren’t that desensitized to the data as to not know what is a loss or not. That was the sad part you know?
Yeah, the only thing left is to see numbers but people can forge them or whatever, pay offs, shady crap etc. if they wanted. i truly believe they will be making bank with or without us, but even then why not add us to make more money? Just place it for comp.
I just find it ironic that a game about inclusivity and about minorities are trying to get rid of said exact thing by not being inclusive to all. Kind of a joke.
Mhm - which is why I think the original decision is quite short-sighted.
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I just can’t really believe they would do this as many game companies i know of have never done such a thing…by that i mean exclude players if they had to. never have unless my eyes are covered in wool. I am not sure what is going on but if I have to walk, so be it. Do i want to? No, but after seeing their decisions, it really does make me want to. We can only wait to se if they answer us I suppose.
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When SMS authentication is no longer effective for smurfs
Blizzard will come up with a plan to further reduce the number of users.
And customer support never tries to help the user.
Paying for such games is risky.
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They are arguing in bad faith cause they are expecting links and they should know outside links aren’t allowed in Blizzard forums and we cant provide citations. Its also not hard to look of these statistics on their own.
If they don’t obviously see the cascades of individuals on multiple social media (twitter, insta, facebook, youtube, twitch, blizz forums) across the internet and across the globe complaining about this, then they are purposely shining a blind eye.
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This would be an interesting route for if (or when) it does happen because then i wonder what their secondary option would be? After all you can only eliminate so much cheaters and while it isn’t going to gt rid of them all, i wonder how much it will stop and how much it won’t?
it’s true that right now a game with such is risky account wise because imagine now putting so much MORE time into this game and MORE money for them to officially go “nope, you lost your number? Number has been deleted? you’re done, no number, no service” i couldn’t imagine the amount of people that right now have only short term numbers from apps that can drop them anytime from just one mistake and all because of the SMS qualifications.
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I find it while that even right now their doing positive PR right now as we speak, but still not addressing the prepaid consumer issue.