Blizzard gives most Overwatch 1 players a pass on verifying phone numbers to play Overwatch 2

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Two days into the launch of Blizzard’s revamped and now free-to-play Overwatch 2 experience, a Wednesday night post on its support forum addressed problems players have had with connections, SMS Protect, and missing account items or account merge troubles.

In terms of the connection issues and long queues for entry that are keeping many of us stuck at the loading screen (Login queues, server crashes, and stability problems), a critical login server has been patched to help it hold up under the load. Blizzard says it’s also slowly scaling up the nodes in its player databases to help them handle the onrush of players diving in.

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Blizzard said: “In all cases, no player data has been wiped or lost.”

Beyond the ability to connect to the…

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