Overwatch 2 releases on October 4th and Blizzard revealed some new details about it. According to the team, all players across all platforms will be required to have a phone number attached to their battle.net account to launch Overwatch 2.
Blizzard claims that this two-step verification will offer a better security system to the game. And, if you are using services like Paypal, you may already be using this system. However, I’d prefer an app verification tool, similar to what other game companies are currently using.
Blizzard has also announced the First Time User Experience. Since Overwatch 2 is a free-to-play game, this FTUE is basically a grinding wall. Blizzard attempted to explain things in a blogpost, however, this is a grinding wall.
In short, new players will have to win 50 quick play matches to unlock competitive mode, and complete roughly 100 matches to unlock all the roster from the first Overwatch game.
There is some good news here at least. Blizzard claims that most game mode restrictions will be lifted if you play in a group. So yeah, that’s something.
Lastly, the game will have a ping system, similar to that of APEX Legends. This ping system will give players the ability to communicate with their team without having to use voice chat.
There is no denying that Overwatch has a huge fanbase. Therefore, it will be interesting to see whether Overwatch 2 will succeed, despite these new controversial changes!
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They can require a stool and blood sample for all I care, anyone who plays this trash deserves anything they get
Sounds suspicious to me because they’re not asking for the vaccination certificate.
A professional wow player said that Andrew Tate helped him get where he is, his access to the beta of the new wow update was rescinded. That is the point of all that stuff, to sell your soul to the devil and your freedom just so you can play blizzard’s trash games.
Maybe blizzard tought he was in the s3x trafficking industry? But seriously, this is nothing new, you play these normie tier games “professionally” then you are pretty much actiblizzard b!tch, i mean, employee, and then people say video game addiction is not real.
Andrew didn’t teach him street smarts if he tought he could get away with saying this stuff and not suffer consequences.
what did he said?
That he is a fan of Andrew Tate? You expect a company like Activision to let “professional” gamers get away with this stuff? I don’t know if he has a valid excuse for being this naive, but maybe he is young and don’t know much about how companies behave nowadays.
no one had an issue with that guy until recently.
You mean after he was accused of se#ual trafficking of girls? Maybe, what i knew about him before was that he was related to PUA stuff and that’s a big no-no in our PC centric western society, maybe even more than actual se#ual traffick…
literally a woman that was cheating on her husband with him so she claimed she was abducted. The investigation found nothing.
I don’t care if he is guilty or innocent, and more importantly, Activision totally doesn’t care about the possibility of this guy actions and discourse being innocent. Get it?
no sht
Good, then why do you keep replying?
ok
Spammer.
i said ok, you choose to keep replying, who is the spammer now?
You agreed with my points but keep replying with nonsense.
“who is the spammer now?”
You ofc.
whats the point of this?
I already made my point, you just refuse to leave. Lonely?
And I require the exact opposite to even consider playing anything these days.
Let the intellectually impaired continue to populate this festering wasteland of stupidity.
They could have just delivered a complete product and asked $60 for it, but instead they made a halved finished product and made it F2P.
Now they have to deal with all the consequences of going F2P.
Blizzard Entertainment, 2018: “Do you guys not have phones?”
Blizzard Entertainment, 2022: Phone number as a minimum requirement
ffs
They should put this company out of its misery, there was a time when the name represented quality.
“…it will be interesting to see whether Overwatch 2 will succeed, despite these new controversial changes!”
No, it won’t be interesting. Humanity is dumb as f**k. It will succeed.
I think Activision is rolling out these 1984 tier updates in their games, same is happening in MW2 remake. Pretty disgusting, but at the same time pretty hard to feel sympathy for these fools, and boy are there a lot of fools in gaming.
Of course it will require grinding system, that’s how you get the plebs to play ur shtty repetitive garbage.
giant privacy violation
f Blizzard
What a load os sh*t i did not like the first and i thought i might try the second not anymore.
Don’t bother the new free to play game Shatterline does it better. Combines destiny cod and overwatch and it works out really well. The bomb missions especially work really well. Better than cod for sure.
And people STILL hope this big corpo will stop digging the hole of their own making.
corporate woke s**t
Did someone say kiddies!?!
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In 2030, Overwatch 3 will require your SSN, home address and a good social credit score to play.