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[Fuz]

And new Overwatch 2 accounts will have to unlock old heroes

'Overwatch 2' moderation tools include voice chat transcriptions and SMS verification

Overwatch 2's new mod system includes SMS verification, the removal of general chat from menus, and transcriptions for reported voice chat audio.

www.engadget.com

New Overwatch 2 accounts have to unlock old heroes, too

The old hero roster is free, but you'll have to unlock them if you never played the original Overwatch.

www.pcgamer.com

They keep digging the grave. At this point feels like they're trying to sabotage it.
I also don't even think it's legal to record voice chat, in Europe.

Let's be stated for the record that whoever gives his phone number away like this is an idiot who's bringing down us all.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[The Cockatrice]

Phone number eh, makes sense against cheaters I guess but THIS????????????

And new Overwatch 2 accounts will have to unlock old heroes

The whole idea behind Overwatch was that you can always pick a hero to counter teams, that means with the influx of new players everyone will just stick with that shitty hero and wont be able to adapt. Like wtf is even the point of Overwatch if u cant play all the heroes? Jesus fuck.

 

[Majima Everywhere System]

That's awesome. Maybe they have a thing where like, after a good match, your favorite Hero or waifu calls you on the phone.

They may compliment your performance, point out how you two were meant for each other, and maybe tell you about a gift they left you in the online casino storefront.

I would take that call.

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Not too fussed about handing over my phone number if it is to help prevent cheating and keeping people banned.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Yes yes let me just give my phone number to fucking ABK

 

[phil_t98]

always easy to block things on phones these days so no biggy

 

[Winter John]

Do you people not enjoy marketing calls?

 

[Yoshichan]

is my dick size in inches enough for them?

 

[anthony2690]

I feel like I'm the only person looking forward to overwatch 2

I got into Overwatch 1 fairly late and quite enjoyed myself.

I do think locking out new players from old heroes is a big mistake though, as surely if someone has all the heroes they can just focus on buying costumes instead, for people that enjoy buying skins.

I hope we can still unlock stuff for free too.

 

[phil_t98]

is my dick size in inches enough for them?

no microscopes required lol

 

[Dr.Morris79]

What is going on with this dog shit company?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

No video game could ever have any legitimate reason to require your phone number.

 

[01011001]

Overwatch was already a dying game and they are trying to save it by making it literally worse in every conceivable way

 

[Kenneth Haight]

is my dick size in inches enough for them?

-1 ?

They just put that down for anyone who has a GAF account

Spoiler

love you really, you are so huge

 

[AV]

 

[BlackTron]

Well I already decided I was done with Overwatch at this point I'm just watching a dumpster fire from miles away.

Really too bad they are taking away the game I already purchased and are replacing it with this, I might actually have fired up classic mode in the first one once in a while. At this point, I just want nothing to do with Blizzard ever again.

 

[Gudji]

MS getting ready to have AI call you every month to sell gamepass.

 

[Punished Miku]

Thats a hard no from me.

 

[lh032]

MS getting ready to have AI call you every month to sell gamepass.

im wondering whether Microsoft will fix this or...support this lol

 

[winjer]

This game is just getting worse, and worse and worse...

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

And new Overwatch 2 accounts will have to unlock old heroes

'Overwatch 2' moderation tools include voice chat transcriptions and SMS verification

Overwatch 2's new mod system includes SMS verification, the removal of general chat from menus, and transcriptions for reported voice chat audio.

www.engadget.com

New Overwatch 2 accounts have to unlock old heroes, too

The old hero roster is free, but you'll have to unlock them if you never played the original Overwatch.

www.pcgamer.com

They keep digging the grave. At this point feels like they're trying to sabotage it.
I also don't even think it's legal to record voice chat, in Europe.

Let's be stated for the record that whoever gives his phone number away like this is an idiot who's bringing down us all.

Good there's 10 trillion smurfs in OW1 abusing the matchmaking system to stomp on noobs. This should reduce that a fair amount.

 

[Miles708]

Ah yes, the good old "think of the children" argument, but this time is"cheating".

Yeah sure, I'm more than willing to give you all my personal info just to play a stupid online game.

 

[Aldynes]

Doubling down on " Don't you guys have phone??? "

 

[IDKFA]

Pass from me. My son won't be touching it either if he's required to give up his phone number.

 

[Aranea]

I don't mind. The game is going F2P and this will combat smurfs and cheaters as that could have easily be exploited. No matter how good an anti cheat system is people will always find a way and this will lower those incidents

As for the heroes lock that's also something i don't mind. Last thing i want is a new player doing 0 kills on Widowmaker. Locking them into a more basic hero like Soldier should make them familiar with the game. This whole thing of requiring phone number has been know for over 6 months.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Couldn't care less, all the big companies already have my phone number.

 

[Uiki]

I mean.. nothing new for a mp title. Good to have more barriers against new accounts.. but too easy to get a throwaway phone number nowadays.

 

[Uiki]

Let's be stated for the record that whoever gives his phone number away like this is an idiot who's bringing down us all.

Wait till you find out all the people who already gave their phone number to play csgo..

 

[Wildebeest]

Not sure if I would trust Activision not to sell my phone number to scammers.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Makes me wonder how many people use food delivery services now days that just gives away your phone number?

 

[KiteGr]

 

[Cert.in.Death]

"Free" to play

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

yeeeeeeeeeee no.

was quite looking forward to trying it out. you're not getting my phone number. i know lots of companies already have my number but i try my best to limit how much i need to give it out. in this case i simply need to NOT play a game? easy!

the amount of companies wanting phone numbers these days is ridiculous. might be worth setting up an anonymous secondary number for these obtrusive companies.

 

[Miles708]

Wait till you find out all the people who already gave their phone number to play csgo..

That doesn't make Fuz wrong though.

 

[Saber]

Next they will ask their home adresses and personnal ID.

I just wonder if people playing this game its just as lobotomized as the Pokemon fans.

 

[hemo memo]

Why not my home and work address, my relationship history and my medical record?

 

[Braag]

People gonne start getting burner phones just to play Acti/Bliz games.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Why not semen and a urine sample while they're at it?

 

[Skifi28]

Why not my home and work address, my relationship history and my medical record?

Nobody wants to know about your waifus and how you got STDs from them.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Good. That just scare off a bunch of cheaters and paranoid people.

 

[crazyriddler]

Do you guys not have phones?

 

[Neolombax]

Damn, thats a hard pass for me. Big corporations may or may not have my information already, but to give it up willingly is something else. Such a shame, was looking forward to play the game.

 

[CherryFalls]

Consoles will have a hole for your finger with the little metal pricks to take blood samples in the future

People will be fine with it because ''They already have so much on your info anyway, who cares?'' & ''Get with times old man! Blood sampling is the norm now''

 

[yurinka]

Phone number eh, makes sense against cheaters I guess but THIS????????????

Nah, cheaters could bypass this by buying phone cards. It would be useful to collect personal data from their players that later can sell to marketing companies and secret service intelligence agencies.

 

[Makoto-Yuki]

Why not semen and a urine sample while they're at it?

I'll happily give them a sample of my poop

 

[crackajack]

giving out a phone number to a company at ordering or on goverment forms as a contact is standard. so no idea what is so weird here, except it being new to gaming and gaming companies are baddies.

Voice chat is annoying and have yet to play a single public game where it wasn't just guys grunting, clearing their throats or minors squeeking overeager some unnecessary bs. But actually never stumbled over some racial, vulgar, misogynistic or whatever session. I play almost no MP though. But I understand trying to filter out people who misbehave and make online a pain for everyone else.

I also don't even think it's legal to record voice chat, in Europe.

There are certainly restricting laws for data protection which make communication, exchange of any data even between govermental organisations impossible, or rather just not legal, but data retention in the wake of anti terror was exactly aimed at saving entire weeks of everyones internet travels and phone calls or something. Just got overturned on the 20th this month.

EuGH: Anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung rechtswidrig

Die deutsche Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist mit EU-Recht nicht vereinbar. Ohne Anlass dürfen die Kommunikationsdaten nicht gespeichert werden. Aber es gibt Ausnahmen.

www.faz.net

I guess saving everything or storing it long term would be illegal but saving specific transcribed text logs as evidence, as a reason for a ban, sounds to me like something that should still be possible. Temporary saving a couple of minutes and transcribing certain parts and indivuals when reported and deleting the rest. Seems reasonable.

 

[Rusty Shackelford]

Checking the link to see if it's not a typo...

 

[Madjako]

I'm in love with OW1 and hate for many reasons OW2.
My concern is how I'll be able to play OW1 in the next few months ???

 

[Uiki]

That doesn't make Fuz wrong though.

Or right.
The more barriers you make, the better. A phone number is the least invasive thing they can do. Players cry for anticheat measures all day without understanding that it means giving up portions of your "safety".

Installing a kernel anticheat is insanity to me. But a phone number? not really.