Blizzard needs to do right by its fans and make some adjustments to the phone number requirement, because right now, the way Overwatch 2 punishes low-income individuals is anything but welcoming. Ultimately, it's an extremely messy situation, especially since SMS Protect is locking out fans that bought and paid for the original game as well as tons of the additional content in it. If hackers and toxic players can just get a prepaid phone from a provider Blizzard isn't aware of to bypass the security measure, what's the point? Overwatch 2 also requires players using new accounts to play upwards of 100 matches to unlock all of the game's original characters and makes them win 50 Quick Play games after that just to enter Competitive mode, which seem like effective deterrents in their own right. This calls the effectiveness of the SMS Protect feature into question, and has many wondering if it will even be a good solution for the problem Blizzard is trying to solve. Making matters worse is the fact that there are widespread reports of some prepaid phone numbers working with Blizzard's new system. I cannot play Overwatch 2 because I have a prepaid phone plan." Bought three accounts, and grinded all the way to Diamond three times. I’m not on PC but, I’m on Xbox Series S, and can only find the 39.99 Overwatch 2: Watchpoint Pack. You can toggle on (and off) the full-screen mode by pressing Control + Command + F at the same time. After that, simply go to the game in the launcher, and click Play. "Been a long time Overwatch player and I'm in the same boat," said a fan on Twitter in response to others faced with the same issue. This is a requirement imposed by and Overwatch 2. "Blizzard is the first company to make me feel too poor to play a game." "Never thought I would be disqualified from playing Overwatch based on my ability afford a phone contract, but here we are," wrote one Reddit user after finding out about Overwatch 2's phone requirement. This meme from the Overwatch subreddit captures the feelings many prepaid phone users have about Overwatch 2.
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