Mint mobile has a phone plan for $15 a month.
Google project if… unlimited talk and text $20 a month no contract.
Considering most third wold countries have phones we should be on this by now in US
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Does mint mobile work for phone verification?
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Mint mobile doesn’t work for phone verification? I could surely strap a mint mobile number to my bank account…. Why wouldn’t I be able to use that on a video game lmao
Are you asking me or answering me
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Because as I told you in the other thread, Blizzard picks and chooses which carriers to approve of.
Check the other thread.
AT&T yes
Cricket NO
AT&T and Cricket are the same company on the same network.
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I’ve been looking for cheap plans in my area.
Gonna pickup a few burners instead of buying their dumb cosmetics.
The game is already totally depersonalized and gated. Their revenue model is failed, because no one wants to be that whale with all the skins in a game that doesn’t reset the false reports counter (or bother with rank integrity). You become a target and there is a lot to be gained psychology from playing incognito + redundancy (risk hedge).
Better to give the money to the phone providers I guess. Nice monetization Blizz.
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Hmmm this is very strange to me…. Why would they not offer verification to all phones…
This makes no sense to me.
So you can play the game if you have att & verison. But you can’t if you have google Fi?
That’s absolutely absurd.
I can use my phone to verify myself to get into my bank account. I could use google fi to get into my bank account……
This is strange……
I highly doubt this is the case…. Or this is next level strange
Exactly. But it is the case. That’s why everyone is pissed.
No pre-paid carriers, or Google/VOIP.
They even smugly put on the page, customer service can’t help with pre-paid issues… or something to that effect.
They know all about it and choose to do this.
Again, Cricket=AT&T and AT&T=cricket. But only on AT&T can you play OW2.
It’s insane.
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Here check that out, says it right there
“You will receive this error when adding a pre-paid or VOIP phone number. Pre-paid and VOIP phone numbers are not supported. Blizzard Customer Support cannot bypass this limitation.”
and
" Make sure your number was not previously used on a pre-paid or VOIP plan
If you are unsure whether your number is a pre-paid or VOIP number, contact your provider for additional information. Please note that Blizzard Customer Support can only help if your phone is not pre-paid or VOIP. "
This also means, if your number was originally say cricket, and you ported it to AT&T, you’re screwed now too. (or potentially, might depend on other unknown factors/timeframes)
So it’s a big cluster you know what.
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How do you know if your verification worked? My number is on my account and I use mint mobile.(it says phone number verified under the security check in my account overview) I did have normal cell plan when I got the number though if that makes a difference
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It might
" Make sure your number was not previously used on a pre-paid or VOIP plan
If you are unsure whether your number is a pre-paid or VOIP number, contact your provider for additional information. Please note that Blizzard Customer Support can only help if your phone is not pre-paid or VOIP. "
All I know is I originally got mine from Cricket, I’m on cricket, and it won’t accept my number, even though it’s the same one from 2005.
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But the question is does it actually work for phone verification? You mention absolutely nothing about that.
The OP of this thread has the fatal flaw of oversimplifying the problem - the problem isn’t that people don’t have phones - the problem is Blizzard is actively saying certain phone types and carriers are bad, which people have been legitimately using for decades now.
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I don’t know. I think it’s tied to the number you have on your account, but is it possible that you have one added there a long time ago and it doesn’t work, maybe?
Or it’s changed, and somehow you need to have access to it for a code or something? Maybe
Who knows, Blizzard has really mucked this up.
All I know is, unless they change, they are planning to purge about 20 or so percent of their playerbase for no reason.
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It probably worked if you added your phone number before they made SMS protect mandatory for ow2, because from what i have seen people have said that the numbers that don’t work now used to work.
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All I know is, unless they change, they are planning to purge about 20 or so percent of their playerbase for no reason.
“bUt ThEy ArE aLl ChEaTeRs AnD SmUrFs!!!111oneone”
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“yEs, muSt Be sERiOuS anD PrO, NoT a gAMe fOr fUN”
“iTs a LiVInG”
I mean seriously, I don’t even care about ranked play. Just give me Quickplay Classic and some occasional no limits and mystery hero
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Because burner phones and voip can have free plans under some plans/companies. I have been using google voice ( Voip ) for years and love it, but it is free and I can make as many phone numbers as I want. Defeats the purpose of a paid account that required verification to activate. Hackers/Trolls would just make 1000’s of phone numbers and we’d be back at square 1.
We already are. Ways have been found around it.
So to recap.
Blizzard is cutting off about 20 or so percent of legitimate accounts.
Smurfs and cheaters can still do what they want to do. Never left square 1, but a bunch of us are gone.
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Forum User RobotWizard has made a very nice thread detailing pre paid plans that are confirmed to work and confirmed not to work, Mint Mobile is part of the Working for verification side
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Because both have different needs. A bank already goes through multiple steps to verify your identity and your source of deposits and money flowing through your account, they don’t need your phone number as a mechanism to achieve that. Your phone number is strictly as a point of contact. Blizzard on the other hand is using your phone number to establish you’re one person to add some accountability, and by limiting the types of eligible phone numbers they accomplish the stated goal. The problem with a lot of these prepaid and virtual operators is that they don’t thoroughly verify your information. As long as you have a credit card number and a pulse, there are services you could easily sign up for online without ever showing any identification or going through a credit check. These types of phone numbers are easy to get and then you simply close the account.
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