OW2 requires a mobile phone number to play

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Taken from the description of the OW2: Watchpoint Pack:

Internet connection, Battle.net® desktop application, and Battle.net® Account required to play. A mobile phone number must be linked to your Battle.net® Account to play Overwatch® 2.

If its MOBILE PHONE, this means virtual phone numbers (ala skype, google call) SHOULD not work (hoping this is true). Guess smurfs/hackers are buying burner phones moving forward.

The Diablo Immortal devs warned us years ago. “Do you guys not have phones?”

Welp, if you don’t, was nice knowing ya :rofl:

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Thanks Blizzard I can now NOT play OW2, I don’t have a mobile phone, never had one, never needed one. Seems I just saved money by now, not buying the new version of a game I enjoyed. Thanks.

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If you don’t have a mobile phone (in 2022) then you probably aren’t likely to be paying for the battle pass anyways.

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It’s weird because I’ve played the beta with no phone number linked to my alt accounts that got in.

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currently it wont let me link a pre paid phone
so that sucks

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This is how you (mostly) stop smurfs. Good move, IMHO.

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It is good for that, but there needs to be some alternate form of identification for people without a phone. Imagine someone who bought OW1 suddenly being unable to play the game because he doesn’t have a phone, or even just doesn’t want to link his phone to his battle.net account for any reason.

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You have a gaming PC or console but don’t have a phone?

Lol

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Yeah I posted on this hours ago. Sucks to not be able to play, but not everyone gets everything in life.

Good thing is we cut down on Smurfs.

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Lol all you want, I never need one. So why buy something you don’t need.

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This. I read the article on the website about what they use mobile numbers for, and they only use it for important account-related things. Whoever you ask shouldn’t get spammed with deals and the like.

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I have a phone however its through cricket wireless which is considered a pre-paid phone plan, however that’s not considered valid for blizzard so I guess I don’t get to play OW anymore

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Isn’t it to play competitive only?

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You know with this I’m curious what the solution would be. Phone numbers are the only thing I can think of that’s unique to most people (in that you usually only have 1) where its not super personal info like a SSID or license number or something.

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Nah, anyone can easily access actual SMS services for like, a dollar. This is the laziest method of solving smurfing and cheating in any video game.

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No its to play OW2 at all if you don’t own OW1 already. This mainly applies to those who join in as a F2P.

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Source, besides a single line quote without much context?

I find it hard to believe they’re going to track who owned OW1 long term and differentiate the accounts to require a mobile number to play any mode. That’s bad business.

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From the description on every single platform’s store it reads that line. Its not really out of context. I assume that if you play OW2 you need a number…maybe irrelevant if you have OW1? I dunno now. Like I have an alt where I got OW for super cheap, that account may DOA when OW2 launches and it requires a phone number.

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nah, I’d rather not play mental gymnastics to play a game. I’ll just spend my Money elsewhere.

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That’s why I asked for source, you quoted it from the purchase of the founders pack and it also says a desktop client of battle.net is required as well, which obviously isn’t relevant to consoles.

If it’s stated elsewhere then maybe it’s so, I don’t know either.