Overwatch 2’s launch problems include prepaid cellular bans, failed account merges

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The launch problems go far beyond simple server stability.

players will need to provide a valid “post-paid” phone number in order to play. Voice over Internet Protocol services and “pre-paid” plans were not acceptable, and that prepaid restriction is blocking a lot of people on national US carriers like Cricket, Metro by T-Mobile, and Mint Mobile from playing.

The problem is that, in practice, a lot of those prepaid plans work the same as a postpaid plan, with billing occurring every month for services like unlimited talk, text, data, etc. You wouldn’t know you had a prepaid plan until you tried to log in to“I’ve been a Cricket Wireless customer with my bill on autopay for like six years,”.

“Here in Indonesia, I have never met anyone who uses postpaid,” wrote one user on the r/Overwatch subreddit. “So I’m locked out just when I was going to tryImage: Blizzard“I’ve been playing with friends and family for years, now I can’t play with any of them because of my phone plan,” the poster wrote on the r/Overwatch subreddit. “Never thought I would be disqualified from playingbased on my ability [to] afford a phone contract.

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