I HAVE NO CELL PHONE, NEVER WILL. LIVE IN THE MOUNTAINS WITH NO CELL PHONE SERVICE! IM NOT GOING TO PAY FOR A CELL PHONE THAT DOESN’T WORK TO PLAY THIS GAME. IT WOULD COST ME 60$ A MONTH TO F TRY TO FIND AN ARENA PARTNER ARE YOU KIDDING ME BLIZZARD!!! THERE IS NO WORK AROUND!!! THERE IS NO WAY TO PROVE THAT I AM MY Fn SELF! I CANT SEND IN PICTURE OF ID, LOCK MY IP, WHAT EVER…THERE IS NO WORK AROUND!!! ANYONE ELSE WITH THIS ISSUE? HOW DO YOU FIX THIS???
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First of all, yikes
Second of all, you can still play the game completely adequately without the authenticator. Play with friends, join a community or discord, play with your guild, etc
Take a chill pill
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What I want to suggest you try would go against the community standards on here 
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I don’t think there is a website workaround for SMS no.
Have you considered just not editing text
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I’ll have you know that that is what OP does all day every day and nothing else.
It is there right as AN AMERICAN TO EDIT TEXT AS MUCH AS THEY PLEASE REEEEEEEEEEE
/s just in case
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This is clearly bait. Falling for it is like falling for those censorship troll threads.
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We already wait for 4 hours in LFG with a proper tittle for an arena partner, with out being able to specify what we want, i’ll never find the right people. Not sitting in que for 8+ hours for NO GAMEPLAY!!!
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You obviously have internet access and Wi-Fi calling exists.
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I’m not understanding how people think that treating “friendship” like running a temp agency is somehow the normal human experience. But you’re from Illidan. No doubt that is how you people think.
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You can’t.
People here are going to tell you that there is, they are going to make a variety of suggestion for work arounds.
And I tell you don’t bother wasting hours like I did downloading, setting up and trying them with Blizzard’s system after the locked bag slots appeared because they will not work because the following, and only the following, is acceptable:
And yes, it is very frustrating. I cared enough about account security to buy the physical authenticator back in the day so if Blizzard had any other option than the above I would take it. They don’t. They expect you, on top of paying them, to also pay for a monthly contract with a cell phone provider for security.
It is arrogant and presumptuous.
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There were still too many people playing. This will help fix that. No doubt their research showed them that the right people will quit over being unable to form groups to complete their content.
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Hey Buddy, we already had this talk, but I’m happy to indulge you.
You’re taking the meaning of friend too literally.
When I say friend, I mean, literally anyone who is not a random stranger.
Anyone you have a connection with is better to play with than a random person.
Additionally, you can create deeper and more established friendships by consistently playing with the same people.
No. You are deliberately misrepresenting it. If you expect that everyone is going to start playing the game like a job because you enjoy that thought, you’re the one who is wrong.
People want to play with their actual friends. You would like to change that. I’m sure you’ve dumped more “friends” than you’ve kept because they were no longer useful to you.
The game is grooming people to be antisocial and not develop long-term friendships. You’re making progress on that.
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Please don’t type in all caps, it’s not fun to read.
You don’t need cell service to use the authenticator, I live in a crap service area as well but my phone is always connected to my wifi. In fact, for a long while I didn’t have phone service at all but I had a phone that had the authenticator on it and it worked fine lol. Also there’s physical authenticators on the interwebs.
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You’re just going all out with the projection, huh? You certainly hold a lot of hatred towards me for no reason lmao.
I would not. In fact, I suggested that people DO play with their friends. See, right here:
I have no such expectation
Get a phone.
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If you read this in Daffy Ducks voice it’s HILLARIOUSE
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You need SMS protect to unlock it, which creates a whole host of issues because blizz is extremely picky about what numbers they allow.
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