Evil is back: Overwatch 2 again requires your phone number for verification

If you were one of those who were happy that Blizzard had mostly abandoned phone number verification, I'm going to have to disappoint you - it looks like it's coming back.

Here's What We Know

The publisher recently announced on their blog that SMS Protect has been re-enabled. That is, whether you have a prepaid mobile phone or not, you will soon need to connect your phone number to your Battle.net account to play Overwatch.

For many this may be a problem, but for even more people the problem may be that the coveted SMS with the code may not come at all! (personal experience). The start of the game was already a little spoiled due to server overload, which made it impossible to play, and on top of that this forced verification was introduced. After a flurry of negativity in the direction of Blizzard, it decided to abandon this method of verification.

Well, Blizzard has changed its mind again. In a blog post updated on November 17, the publisher announced that SMS Protect for Overwatch 2 is coming back.

Source: Kotaku