Playing an online game isn't private? Certainly not when it doesn't have dedicated servers. Turn off your in game voice chat if you're worried about their recordings. If it's actually "private" like with friends you can use discord or whatever.
they do not, anon. Zoomers have been conditioned to be fine with authorities watching everything they do. They have no semblence of self awareness and do not understand why privacy is important. This concept is literally too complex for them and they do not posses the IQ required to internalize any of it.
On the other hand, zoomers and SJWs are so fricken dumb that I exploit them daily lol. Remember zoomers, you WILL give me your money and you WILL STFU while I stay rich
Anon your ip and post is archived every time you post on Ganker. There is no such thing as privacy. >but muh vpn
If you're going to bother talking about that sort of thing then you're probably not someone who was going to play OW anyway.
Did you just compare an IP address to a, phone number? moron, go ahead and give out your number to everyone who asks. Let me know the amount of spam, robo, and spoof calls you start getting.
>you have nothing to hide if you're not breaking the law
how did we reach the point where libtards are honest to god repeating NSA tier surveillance state talking points with smugness?
glad that all these whiners in my competitive matches will stop being passive aggressive buttholes to me and others so we can play the game and have fun
Probably a case of a party of people just mass reporting. That can get you banned for about anything.
Most excellent.
gay
2 years ago
Anonymous
I honestly don't care, it's just so much funnier knowing you're already in the stroke zone and now you'll probably be foaming at the mouth when the ban hammer falls. Tryhards are the worst gamers.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Oh you are taking this personal. Gay or a women.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You're getting madder with each post. Cmon I want you shaking and crying by your next one.
Not really what I meant at all, and no, they aren't stuck in the past. Just saying that in the scope of history, Russians don't have something so unique to distinguish them from other peoples/countries if you are worried about evil.
I don't think it's fair to say inherently evil, but Russians have never known anything but various types of authoritarian rule and are descendant from a combination of vikings (murderous barbarians) and mongols (murderous barbarians).
if they required a mandatory buttplug GPS tracker that explodes if you say Black person you homosexuals would still defend their stupid nonsense. FRICK YOU
the problem is that if they ask for a phone number is most likely for sms/voice verification, wich makes using a fake one hard, atleast for the average normalgay and schizoprhenic Gankerermin.
You need them to do everything with 2FA now, so I have one for Steam, one for old accounts I don't even use anymore and another that I used to use for kik.
Those are marked as voip numbers and if overwatch implemented it correctly, they wont allow voip numbers. You also have to respond with the verification code.
they literally ahve had 2FA for over a decade with the authenticator
this isn't about 2FA
it's about control
people will be less likely to troll or say Black person if theyre gonna get phone# banned and have to make a new account and spend 25$ on a new prepaid line
in other words its for asshomosexual libtards
its not even just the trolls and Black person sayers
acting "mean" at all is a no-no. can't say a teammate sucks. can't even tell him to play better because that implies he sucks which is toxic
2FA on steam is to protect your account, not to monitor your abuse.
The cause is entirely different. It's like saying you need to drive with a AM/FM radio in the car, just so we can be sure you're using USA store bought gasoline. The purpose doesn't beget the cause.
>2FA on steam is to protect your account, not to monitor your abuse
Are you seriously implying this is Blizzard's intention? Seriously?
2 years ago
Anonymous
No. He's delineating the differences.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>reads one line further >"The cause is entirely different"
illiterate homosexual
2 years ago
Anonymous
>talks about two different causes >says 'the' cause instead of 'this' cause
my reading comprehension is fine, knob gobbler
2 years ago
Anonymous
>"my reading comprehension is fine, knob gobbler" >unironically thinks 'this cause' would have made for proper syntax
You are, and I say this will all honestly, illiterate.You've likely never been a "big reader" and have never been willing to admit the fact to yourself, but it is a fact all the same and the only way to improve is to dedicated yourself to the process of relearning your native language. You won't, however, as that takes real effort, so instead have a final (you) while I kek at your smoothbrained reply
2 years ago
Anonymous
no, he's not. learn to read anon
I got a perfect score on my university reading comprehension test. The clerk told me that was rare. You can suck a dick.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>university reading tests
yes, you've passed the moron test and they didn't need to put you in remedial training. That is rare, given that +/-50% of the US is illiterate. That doesn't mean you're literate, however, it just means you're the one-eyed king amongst the blind. You're still a crippled illiterati regarding your own native language and you've proven that itt. Coping doesn't change that, homosexual.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm quite literally smarter than you.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I also breezed through comp 101/2, aced them, near effortlessly. I also won a writing competition out of 200 people. once again just suck a fricking dick and die
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I won at writing >repeats "I also" as a sentence starter
Why prove him right?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>basing self-worth on a university test >on Ganker
lmao
nobody said that's what 2FA on steam does.
why are you too stupid to see the argument >blizzard isnt doing this for 2FA reasons
That sounds illegal.
there are no laws against it yet moron
2 years ago
saucy
Didn't Facebook and Twitter just get out of steamy legal trouble for bottling and surveillance?
2 years ago
Anonymous
surveillance is different than selling user data which you agree'd belongs to the company when you accepted the terms and cond >Ganker pass mouthbreather
2 years ago
saucy
I don't think the argument was about morality though, it was about legality. TOS doesn't usurp legal action or state laws, not even federal laws.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>TOS doesn't usurp legal action or state laws, not even federal laws.
what law are you talking about which protects userdata even if you sign it away with the terms and cond
there is no law to prevent companies from collecting data and selling it
2 years ago
Anonymous
In the EU there is due to GDPR
2 years ago
Anonymous
GDPR wise they just have to put a notice when you try to enable voice chat or something. You can disagree, but then they just turn off voice chat. That plus deleting old data after a while will cover them.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The Facebook thing with Illinois was much more invasive. They were using user's posted photos to create biometric facial identification data without any consent. Blizzard will probably have a thing that says to use voice chat you have to consent to use recording it for moderation purposes. Similar to how voice assistant stuff on phones and smart speakers does.
2 years ago
saucy
With TF2 you just buy a matchmaking ticket to play. That enables you to play ranked mode. Yes you need a 2-Step authenticated account to buy a ticket, but it's for your whole account not just THE game. I can't even buy a ticket for Overwatch, if I get banned for toxic behavior I lose all access to my game and my cosmetics and the phone number tied to it. It's moronic.
2FA on steam is to protect your account, not to monitor your abuse.
The cause is entirely different. It's like saying you need to drive with a AM/FM radio in the car, just so we can be sure you're using USA store bought gasoline. The purpose doesn't beget the cause.
Worried you won't be able to eat shit while playing OW2 without Blizzard recording it?
2 years ago
saucy
I guarantee you people who get banned from OW2 will have their numbers banned too.
I had a Blizzard authenticator directly from them and STILL had my old WoW account hacked.
This was over a decade ago though.
That was the last straw, never played another Blizzard game again.
>phone number will prevent account abuse >there are websites online right now that will give you a free random phonenumber for text authorization
I swear blizzard is helmed by tech illiterate monkeys
Even if I gave them my real phone number, I still feel like a fricking moron for playing six hours of OW2 and going back to Diablo II resurrected that requires absolutely zero authentication.
>there are websites online right now that will give you a free random phonenumber for text authorization
Those don't work on any serious system, I've tried it before.
[...] >phone number will prevent account abuse >there are websites online right now that will give you a free random phonenumber for text authorization
I swear blizzard is helmed by tech illiterate monkeys
Try a different website, usually you can use the same phone number for multiple accounts, if you can't use a specific phone number it was flagged in the system by someone who got perma banned
Retry with a different number or use any of the dozens of other sites that have them as well, search for these sites using translators to get foreign sites. they aren't used as much
This is 100% illegal in the USA if challenged in court, you could fight it as either racially-motivated discrimination (minorities less likely to own phones) or as a privacy violation (you know for a fact Blizzard isn't storing this personal info securely)
If somebody had the money and inclination they could literally eradicate Blizzard over this.
>Indietard doesn't understand what free to play is
Go back to your pixel vomit made by trans tendies that hate gamers but feel entitled to their money for just existing
Imagine being so cucked you need to tie your phone number, credit card, and pay money just to play a fricking game. Only to get banned after hurting a troony's feelings.
>set in game voice chat to off >game always records anything said into the mic, it just doesn't transmit it
Sorry not sorry racist chuds. Just because it's private doesn't mean it's okay to be a shitlord. Maybe next time be a better person. Oh wait there won't be a next time, can't fix stupid.
Your time is coming, chud. Soon AI will be able to weed out all the secret racists based on similarities in their typing patterns and browsing habits. It will be 99% accurate. What about the 1%, you say? Acceptable sacrifice, better ten innocent men be imprisoned than one guilty man go free.
>set in game voice chat to off >game always records anything said into the mic, it just doesn't transmit it
Sorry not sorry racist chuds. Just because it's private doesn't mean it's okay to be a shitlord. Maybe next time be a better person. Oh wait there won't be a next time, can't fix stupid.
Your time is coming, chud. Soon AI will be able to weed out all the secret racists based on similarities in their typing patterns and browsing habits. It will be 99% accurate. What about the 1%, you say? Acceptable sacrifice, better ten innocent men be imprisoned than one guilty man go free.
>he doesn't know they can read minds
I'm not even kidding either. You never thought about something and had an ad for it pop up? One time I was wondering in my head "what was the name of that gay in Greek mythology that Apollo was fricking and he got beamed in the head by a discus?" Pulled out my phone and typed in "A", just "A" and it autofilled to "Apollo's gay lover". There are CIA docs about this technology too but unfortunately I forget the names of the projects.
imagine being a blizz fan >buy overwatch >enjoy game >blizzard announces overwatch 2 >replacing overwatch >can't ever play the game you like again >now also requires you to sign an even more draconian EULA, provide your name, address, phone number, and let them record your mic 24/7 as long as the game is installed
Glad I haven't bought anything from them since WotLK.
I miss the times when people could throw the most obscene profanities at eachother and noone would get offended.
Fricking America keeps ruining life for the rest of the world in every single way.
>Fricking America keeps ruining life for the rest of the world in every single way.
Most of Europe will arrest you for saying anything bad about protected groups (trannies, Black folk, israelites).
a movement started in America by left wing israelites
>Fricking America keeps ruining life for the rest of the world in every single way.
Most of Europe will arrest you for saying anything bad about protected groups (trannies, Black folk, israelites).
jews and puritans who hate fun
[...]
a movement started in America by left wing israelites
>a movement started in America
Funny, it was a man flying the Union Jack that invented "gender" and trannies... but I guess that doesn't fit the narrative.
>america
europe is literally trying to implement its own closed off internet so they can censor you better. They have been lobbying for harsher censorship on tech platforms for fricking years
Even if they just keep reported voice chats for a week that's a lot. It has to save the entire match's voice chat from at least you and maybe other people. And I doubt it'll try to cut out parts of silence since that could lead to it missing a lot so you're gonna have a ton of really long audio files
Not to mention, typically people that get reported for toxicity just get an automated scan of their messages for trigger words, now this is gonna require employees to listen to entire voice chats. Just seems like a lot and weird to try and pull off
Yeah, let me share some more of how it works. It's gonna transcribe the audio to text and store that. So once they process it, mostly just text data. Which, if they delete the audio portion will be fun when the AI fricks up the transcribing...
Basically no human will review the actual audio. All automated, all AI driven.
Bunch of companies like fricking Starbucks and Walmart have started crying about how bad things are getting. Even blackrock doesn't have infinite money, even these big companies still need real stores and products so there is something for people to actually invest in.
>Even blackrock doesn't have infinite money
In today's digital economy, all money is infinite. When the chips are down, just make more. Who's going to stop them? More importantly, who' would stop the people trying to stop the people trying to stop them? They have become our system. If they fall, the economy falls, and China swoops in and takes over.
Alright fine, let me clarify. Currency might be infinite, wealth is not. It doesn't' matter how much shit you fake. >Who's going to stop them?
I already laid it out. Turns out funding literal bullshit doesn't print you infinite money. Yeah Blackrock sucks dick, but they aren't invincible, companies won't be able to live infinitely off their teat.
its like they are doing the impossible so that people dont play the game >buy game >company deletes said game, replaces it with a different game >cant access old or new game >money stolen
the phone number is so that they can aggregate your data they collect with other data other companies collect that are tied to your phone number probably so they can sell it to the highest bidder and pajeet scammers
The phone number is literally to add a little friction for cheating and banned shits making a new account given its f2p. Just be glad you aren't South Korean and have your game account tied to your national ID number.
It isn't, you can spoof your phone number really easily with free text sites online that give you a random phone number
Activision has been slowly integrating your personal data into the app one step at a time, it doesn't stop people that abuse the system at all, it just takes advantage of honest players and sell their data
>Just be glad you aren't South Korean and have your game account tied to your national ID number.
Can't wait for web3.0 where this becomes the standard worldwide.
I legit don’t answer my phone when I get a call, unless it’s from a number I know. In this day and age, unless you’re calling the doctor or something you initiate, it’s probably a scam
Valve games in general are pretty good about not banning over hurt feelings like most cucked companies
Shame that the games themselves have all turned shit
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's peak monkeypaw isn't it? The games are garbage but at the same time they're the only games that don't feel sterile and retain some of that early 2000s magic
remember years back when the Xbox One revealed the kinnect needed to be on and was watching and listening to you? Fast forward and now nobody cares, and people allow phone apps to control their homes, and have devices that literally listen to you in your own home. Sad.
>Overwatch 3 >If you speak out against any protected entities, the KGB - I mean FBI, owned by the Blackrock Union for Equality and Tolerance™ will raid your house and kill you.
The trannies would be squealing with delight.
>including pre-paid
Kek, I just checked and my number, which I have had for 14 years on a pre-paid carrier because of how much cheaper it is than contract, doesn't work. I hate Blizzard so fricking much.
>spyware is bad and should never be downloaded >this is well known >slap on a money making IP label to that spyware and be published by a massive company >this is now considered okay
Genuinely explain this
>why are you surprised commiefornia stoops this low?
Not surprised, just disappointed and mildly mad as things keep getting worse. I'll adopt an apathetic mindset when I'm dead.
i tried streaming overwatch like 5 years ago and all i got was a 5+ minute video of two angry teenagers straight off Ganker throwing a constant verbal tantrum the entire round
Nobody in this thread seriously believed anonymous, neutral and free internet would last forever, did they? Tyranny of information is a cornerstone of civilized society.
You were just waiting for the coin to land on the other side, and you're upset it didn't.
I have a really cool way to say the N word and get away with It while playing online Games. Its really simple, you just Gotta be creative in the way you type or talk.
Everyone can do it if they try, and if they're Recording your voice it doesn't matter since it'll fly right above their heads.
Wow its almost like I don't care, because I wasn't going to play it anyways. Plus I don't own a smartphone because I'm not a moron who needs to be tied to a GPS to find my way around.
>why are people objecting to what used to be 100% optional being made mandatory
Additionally pretty sure battlenet sms protect was not limited to one account per phone number ever
Lol blizzard apparantly spend big on the shills. >why would u mind the police fisting your butthole if you have nothing to hide there?
Who knew all u needed to brainwash billions was pixels and some soundwaves
Blame zoomers. They willingly give up privacy left and right because israelites have been slowly conditioning future generations. The frog is being boiled.
Only thing worse is people who try to fit in with that trash. Frick sake. Imagine how happy they mustve been knowing they now dont need to spend billions on bombing buildings to fool the masses
>Play small nobody MUD >One dev does something stupid >Another dev calls another him a dumb motherfricker and mentions how much of a prostitute Dev 1's mom is >Everyone has a chuckles about it
Reject AAA, return to text.
Unironically for multiplayer shooters. Those games consistently draw in the most subhuman, vitriolic, underage players, so I think for that specific genre it should be standard.
okay well I bought my current battle.net account about 12 years ago after my actual account was perma'd from WoW for using Glider, so even if they did do that, the dude's name on this account isn't even mine, so you solved nothing.
I can't believe people still play with voice chat at all. I just call my friends on my cell phone and we talk over that. All I needed was one experience with a frickwit kid telling me to suck his dick, me telling him to get out of the chat, and then his ghetto ass dad coming on to call me a homosexual and asking where I lived so he could come kick my ass. If you're still using voice chat in 2022 you're just as bad as that kid and his dad
Would this shit even be used if there was no such thing as E-sports? Isn't most of these requirements because everyone wants to make a career out of playing games now?
Twitter should display the real names and addresses of twitter users so when a mob tries to cancel someone over petty shit, that someone can list the names and addresses of all those responsible and go out for a hunt.
Remember how even ~15 years ago one of the iron rules of the internet was to never give out private information to anyone?
Fast forward to now, if you don't plaster your social security #, full name and address, phone number and names of your parents and the schools you went to you're a freak.
What happened?
>What happened?
Facebook? YouTube? Social media presence? Online transactions requiring identity information? 2FA?
I still use false info on many sites that require it, long as I expect to not need to make any payments for it. Zoomies of today are fricked though and don't hit up a different alias per online location they regular.
Unironically needed. The majority of people who play these games are mentally unstable. I use voice for calls exclusively, I do not need someone chimping out about NO HEAL throughout the entire game because they fed 1v6 instead of waiting for the rest of the team
>life steadily gets more invasive and less consumer-friendly and everyone ignores it, or, at worst, gets annoyed that you brings it up because all they care about is muh convenience
They would've had me. I actually was going to give this shitshow a second change before this phone shit, but they're so moronic they can't even draw me back in anymore.
To be fair, it was never alive to begin with. Most people still think you have had to buy Overwatch 1 to play. This game has the worst marketing I've ever seen for AAA titles.
What does Blizzard even want these days? They seem to not want to work on any of their games, they can't want money since they're burning so much and not hyping up investors, they can't want praise because nothing they've done lately has gotten them any.
Are they just trying to cover their ears until the bad times stop and they're not under so much scrutiny?
Actiblizzard is ran by literal government spooks. Their only goal is using old IPs for propaganda purposes and normalizing the most invasive business practices imaginable.
>want to play ow2 >ask me to put my Phone because of reasons >"Frick it, I want to play with D.va" >play the game >its the same game again >have some fun but quit the game and never open it again >someday blizzard has another leak >now some Black person on Angola started to send messages offering a home office manager position on Amazon
I really hate this timeline
Girls will play this. They don't care who calls them. Nobody uses a landline anymore. Who cares if corporations listen in on your life and use it to target you with adds. I want more stuff that I like to be made. There's a higher chance I'll finally meet someone that likes the same shit I do. Pander to me corpo mommy. Eat my cum Blizzard. Keep inviting me to betas for games I'll never purchase.
Not a problem unless you're a moron
the problem is that more games are doing this. not that anybody is actually going to play OW2
Name one.
MCC records all VC too
vc is broken in mcc it doesnt even work
>Playing modern games
>Not moronic
Do Black folk like you even understand the concept of privacy?
>join public match with other players
>decide to talk to them with your mic
>then caring about privacy
Playing an online game isn't private? Certainly not when it doesn't have dedicated servers. Turn off your in game voice chat if you're worried about their recordings. If it's actually "private" like with friends you can use discord or whatever.
The only good thing about Overwatch is porn.
barely
If you are an Ameritard born after 9/11 no. Silk Road showed nobody gives a frick who sees what.
they do not, anon. Zoomers have been conditioned to be fine with authorities watching everything they do. They have no semblence of self awareness and do not understand why privacy is important. This concept is literally too complex for them and they do not posses the IQ required to internalize any of it.
On the other hand, zoomers and SJWs are so fricken dumb that I exploit them daily lol. Remember zoomers, you WILL give me your money and you WILL STFU while I stay rich
Anon your ip and post is archived every time you post on Ganker. There is no such thing as privacy.
>but muh vpn
If you're going to bother talking about that sort of thing then you're probably not someone who was going to play OW anyway.
Did you just compare an IP address to a, phone number? moron, go ahead and give out your number to everyone who asks. Let me know the amount of spam, robo, and spoof calls you start getting.
See you soon Adam from Kentucky 🙂
Exactly, voice can't be recorded if you only jerk off to the porn rather than play the shitty game
my man
you mean, is only for morons
exactly! Just don't play OW2 and you'll be fine.
>you have nothing to hide if you're not breaking the law
how did we reach the point where libtards are honest to god repeating NSA tier surveillance state talking points with smugness?
go back to sucking dicks on reddit
>implying R*ddit isn’t the bastion of sucking mainstream corporate wiener
Stop projecting
ANYTHING TO OWN THE CHUUUUUDDDDDDDSSSSSSSSSS
glad that all these whiners in my competitive matches will stop being passive aggressive buttholes to me and others so we can play the game and have fun
People were already passing on overwatch 2, this isn't a feature that will convince people to play, it's the opposite
yea nothing is a problem unless you're sentient
fpwp have a nice day irl
>Play OW2
>Get doxxed
I suppose that you are saying that only morons will play OW2, innit?
>I suppose that you are saying that only morons will play OW2, innit?
That's what I took from it.
This. Just don't play this garbage, simple as.
That's the other thing. What if they just start doing Clutch or Kick shit? Will I get banned for toxic behavior because I suck consecutively?
No, the people saying clutch or kick will immediately be banned for their toxic behavior.
Most excellent.
You say that, but I've been kicked from my fair share of games over Clutch or Kick nonsense.
should've clutched then scrub.
Yeah I'm real excited to lose my $800 cosmetic account because I didn't clutch out a win against three choke points and a fricking Winston main.
Probably a case of a party of people just mass reporting. That can get you banned for about anything.
gay
I honestly don't care, it's just so much funnier knowing you're already in the stroke zone and now you'll probably be foaming at the mouth when the ban hammer falls. Tryhards are the worst gamers.
Oh you are taking this personal. Gay or a women.
You're getting madder with each post. Cmon I want you shaking and crying by your next one.
Try posting that with your phone number attached.
>
Are Russian's inherently evil or just conditioned to be evil?
The more you dig into history, the less unique the Russians look.
So Russians are stuck in the past?
Not really what I meant at all, and no, they aren't stuck in the past. Just saying that in the scope of history, Russians don't have something so unique to distinguish them from other peoples/countries if you are worried about evil.
One man's yesterday is another's tomorrow.
I don't think it's fair to say inherently evil, but Russians have never known anything but various types of authoritarian rule and are descendant from a combination of vikings (murderous barbarians) and mongols (murderous barbarians).
Born evil
By buying Overwatch? I agree. What kind of moron would still play that game?
If by moron you mean someone who plays Blizzard games in 2022 then yeah, you are right.
authoritarian companies deserve the rope, to be perfectly honest.
>Hates authoritarian companies
>Wants authoritarian punishments on them
Seems fair
giving them a taste of their own medicine? yes.
Be the bigger man, turn the cheek
No, I don't think I will.
Can you really call them extreme if they never do anything but say I glow?
lmao go frick yourself israelite, i see right through your asymmetrical warfare survival tactic.
>if you kill your enemies, they win!
Imagine being the moron buying and playing overwatch
More like not a problem because I'm not going to play this garbage game lmao
That's true, only morons buy nublizzard games.
Frick you
>not a problem
if they required a mandatory buttplug GPS tracker that explodes if you say Black person you homosexuals would still defend their stupid nonsense. FRICK YOU
What's wrong with racists getting btfo'd?
Try repeating your exact words "Not a problem unless you're a moron" inside Overwatch and see how well that goes for you, cretin.
>I can't control myself when I leave my favorite shithole
>just suppress your own personality and thoughts, anon
>just obey le draconian multi-billion corporation's policies, anon
>calling people moron is a personality trait
ASD moment
Just don't say Black person.
Non-negotiable
Bro you cant be even slightly rude in bligger games anymore. Blizzard wants pvp to be irl sarcastaball
i would ban anyone talking like such a huge homosexual any day of the week
Sadly jannoid applications are closed now, better luck next time, loser.
u mad?
Ok troony
I also got banned for being an edgelord too.
Obey the social contract
That's homosexual bants and deserves bans.
You must be 18 to post here
Sadly jannoid applications are closed now, better luck next time, loser.
This post is accurate, only morons would play overwatch 2
POLICE HE JUST SAID THE BAD WORD
YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO BOIS
>Policed for calling people Black folk online
Imagine this future
As it should be
N****r
>future
The present in cUKistan
You're Asian aren't you?
did u use the r word time to report u
You're right, because only morons will be playing Overwatch 2.
Plutocracy is filtering out more Black folk every day
^all the twitter/facebook maga transplants falling for the b8
Litterally litterally 1984
input your local, annoying Congress person's phone number
>phone number already tied to an existing account
the problem is that if they ask for a phone number is most likely for sms/voice verification, wich makes using a fake one hard, atleast for the average normalgay and schizoprhenic Gankerermin.
I don't have a phone number, it's too expensive to own a plan. How do I play vidya?
>pass user
shove it up your ass, gay homosexual.
No one calls me, I have three phones.
And a discord.
I don't get messages; it's a waste of money.
>Three phones
Why?
abuse ting or something similar?
You need them to do everything with 2FA now, so I have one for Steam, one for old accounts I don't even use anymore and another that I used to use for kik.
most likely sells illegal substances.
Don't reply to pass and trip gays you dork.
You have a visual clue to let you know they only want attention desperately
we have temporary sms services for this and they cost pennies
don't work
Those are marked as voip numbers and if overwatch implemented it correctly, they wont allow voip numbers. You also have to respond with the verification code.
Cool I’m going to DEMAND a refund even though I bought this years ago and haven’t played it in forever
OF MAN, MACHINE
THE FUSION
Valve has been doing the phone number stuff for ages
For ranked modes only. In OW2 you can't even launch the game without a phone number attached.
Is there really no other form of two-step authentication? Did they really think this would stop children from abusing chat?
they literally ahve had 2FA for over a decade with the authenticator
this isn't about 2FA
it's about control
people will be less likely to troll or say Black person if theyre gonna get phone# banned and have to make a new account and spend 25$ on a new prepaid line
in other words its for asshomosexual libtards
its not even just the trolls and Black person sayers
acting "mean" at all is a no-no. can't say a teammate sucks. can't even tell him to play better because that implies he sucks which is toxic
2FA on steam is to protect your account, not to monitor your abuse.
The cause is entirely different. It's like saying you need to drive with a AM/FM radio in the car, just so we can be sure you're using USA store bought gasoline. The purpose doesn't beget the cause.
>2FA on steam is to protect your account, not to monitor your abuse
Are you seriously implying this is Blizzard's intention? Seriously?
No. He's delineating the differences.
>reads one line further
>"The cause is entirely different"
illiterate homosexual
>talks about two different causes
>says 'the' cause instead of 'this' cause
my reading comprehension is fine, knob gobbler
>"my reading comprehension is fine, knob gobbler"
>unironically thinks 'this cause' would have made for proper syntax
You are, and I say this will all honestly, illiterate.You've likely never been a "big reader" and have never been willing to admit the fact to yourself, but it is a fact all the same and the only way to improve is to dedicated yourself to the process of relearning your native language. You won't, however, as that takes real effort, so instead have a final (you) while I kek at your smoothbrained reply
I got a perfect score on my university reading comprehension test. The clerk told me that was rare. You can suck a dick.
>university reading tests
yes, you've passed the moron test and they didn't need to put you in remedial training. That is rare, given that +/-50% of the US is illiterate. That doesn't mean you're literate, however, it just means you're the one-eyed king amongst the blind. You're still a crippled illiterati regarding your own native language and you've proven that itt. Coping doesn't change that, homosexual.
I'm quite literally smarter than you.
I also breezed through comp 101/2, aced them, near effortlessly. I also won a writing competition out of 200 people. once again just suck a fricking dick and die
>I won at writing
>repeats "I also" as a sentence starter
Why prove him right?
>basing self-worth on a university test
>on Ganker
lmao
you tell 'em tyrone.
no, he's not. learn to read anon
nobody said that's what 2FA on steam does.
why are you too stupid to see the argument
>blizzard isnt doing this for 2FA reasons
there are no laws against it yet moron
Didn't Facebook and Twitter just get out of steamy legal trouble for bottling and surveillance?
surveillance is different than selling user data which you agree'd belongs to the company when you accepted the terms and cond
>Ganker pass mouthbreather
I don't think the argument was about morality though, it was about legality. TOS doesn't usurp legal action or state laws, not even federal laws.
>TOS doesn't usurp legal action or state laws, not even federal laws.
what law are you talking about which protects userdata even if you sign it away with the terms and cond
there is no law to prevent companies from collecting data and selling it
In the EU there is due to GDPR
GDPR wise they just have to put a notice when you try to enable voice chat or something. You can disagree, but then they just turn off voice chat. That plus deleting old data after a while will cover them.
The Facebook thing with Illinois was much more invasive. They were using user's posted photos to create biometric facial identification data without any consent. Blizzard will probably have a thing that says to use voice chat you have to consent to use recording it for moderation purposes. Similar to how voice assistant stuff on phones and smart speakers does.
With TF2 you just buy a matchmaking ticket to play. That enables you to play ranked mode. Yes you need a 2-Step authenticated account to buy a ticket, but it's for your whole account not just THE game. I can't even buy a ticket for Overwatch, if I get banned for toxic behavior I lose all access to my game and my cosmetics and the phone number tied to it. It's moronic.
>don't play meta in casual mode
>get banned for deliberately and maliciously throwing games
Not if you preface in voice chat that you have a disability, because disabled people trump meta gamers.
they need your phone number to sell your data to advertisers
That sounds illegal.
nothing's illegal if you have enough money
that is why it goes missing or changed in a later update
Terms of service you accept them.
Yes and you can still sue if your civil or individual liberties are violated.
What are they violating? Seems like a great way to curb the entire troonergroomer problem.
civil or individual liberties DO NOT cover internet data
Yes they do. My credit card purchases and advertising choices are internet data.
> My credit card purchases
> internet data
you mean bank data. not the same as browsing habbits
once again that doesn't count if you sign away on the terms and cond
only prevents doing it without consent
Not exactly, I can tell them I want all my data forgotten and they will have to honor it or face fines of up to 4% yearly revenue
>p-pls delete my data
>ok goy that'll be 2 weeks
>sells your data
>deletes their copy
not always
In Europe they do
yes, they do, why the frick won't they?
moronic 80 year olds in government have yet to pass the laws protecting internet rights
No they don't. You can be thrown around by megacorps as long as you use their services.
boomers don't know how to operate the internet computer
Lol. They dont? Then hand over your internet data right now
It's legal in the US
Worried you won't be able to eat shit while playing OW2 without Blizzard recording it?
I guarantee you people who get banned from OW2 will have their numbers banned too.
I had a Blizzard authenticator directly from them and STILL had my old WoW account hacked.
This was over a decade ago though.
That was the last straw, never played another Blizzard game again.
does this imply there's a way to pay around it?
Eh they have a point. It's free to play so who cares. Not like they're making you download it
>they have a point
they really fricking don't you absolute mongoloid
>phone number will prevent account abuse
>there are websites online right now that will give you a free random phonenumber for text authorization
I swear blizzard is helmed by tech illiterate monkeys
Even if I gave them my real phone number, I still feel like a fricking moron for playing six hours of OW2 and going back to Diablo II resurrected that requires absolutely zero authentication.
>there are websites online right now that will give you a free random phonenumber for text authorization
Those don't work on any serious system, I've tried it before.
googles phone numbers work
Try a different website, usually you can use the same phone number for multiple accounts, if you can't use a specific phone number it was flagged in the system by someone who got perma banned
Retry with a different number or use any of the dozens of other sites that have them as well, search for these sites using translators to get foreign sites. they aren't used as much
>Retry with a different number or use any of the dozens of other sites that have them as well,
I'll give it another shot at some point when I need it.
>t. no one actually reads articles
they won't allow burners or VOIP numbers.
This is 100% illegal in the USA if challenged in court, you could fight it as either racially-motivated discrimination (minorities less likely to own phones) or as a privacy violation (you know for a fact Blizzard isn't storing this personal info securely)
If somebody had the money and inclination they could literally eradicate Blizzard over this.
Obama phone will work fine for the registration.
I didn't know video games was such serious business
And on steam it's for account protection, not to record your FRICKING VOICE CHAT
are they going to blame gamers for them becoming chat nannies?
For what purpose?
a good citizen aids their corporate benefactor's data harvesting operations
>Yes, I bought this modern AAA game and I got fricked in the ass! I never expected this to happen! This is an outrage!
>Indietard doesn't understand what free to play is
Go back to your pixel vomit made by trans tendies that hate gamers but feel entitled to their money for just existing
>h-heh.... actually, it's f2p!
>spends $10000 on it
Just make text/voice chat part of the sub or battlepass. But 6 months for All chat
Imagine being so cucked you need to tie your phone number, credit card, and pay money just to play a fricking game. Only to get banned after hurting a troony's feelings.
Yeah that is bad, but wait until you hear about the requesites for warching restricted videos on youtube.
I hate this timeline.
>the requesites for warching restricted videos on youtube.
Has something changed?
In europe you have to either use your card to buy something or send them an id.
>Europe
Yeah that sounds about right.
Reminder that the EU is literally just a gayer more moronic copy of the United States government.
How am I supposed to ERP in custom games now?
through discord or f-list like any normal self respecting coomer
>tfw do it on both
damn, groommaxxing
My butthole was built for bbc
Hi Dva
Just don't be a racist, misogynist or transphobic chud, it's not hard
>chud
>filename
Go back
>you must use your PC even when while on your lunch break at work!
Nah, I’m good.
What a dumb troony. You get reported for asking your tanks to stop feeding.
That's an excellent idea.
>mute ingame mic
>use Discord/Ventrilo
???
>kill in game chat even deader
>can't even chat in game unless it's all discord buds
Yeah... haha
>set in game voice chat to off
>game always records anything said into the mic, it just doesn't transmit it
Sorry not sorry racist chuds. Just because it's private doesn't mean it's okay to be a shitlord. Maybe next time be a better person. Oh wait there won't be a next time, can't fix stupid.
I'm the most racist man on the internet and never say anything racist out loud because I know they record everything on phones now.
Your time is coming, chud. Soon AI will be able to weed out all the secret racists based on similarities in their typing patterns and browsing habits. It will be 99% accurate. What about the 1%, you say? Acceptable sacrifice, better ten innocent men be imprisoned than one guilty man go free.
I'm a schizo so I change my typing pattern daily.
>he doesn't know they can read minds
I'm not even kidding either. You never thought about something and had an ad for it pop up? One time I was wondering in my head "what was the name of that gay in Greek mythology that Apollo was fricking and he got beamed in the head by a discus?" Pulled out my phone and typed in "A", just "A" and it autofilled to "Apollo's gay lover". There are CIA docs about this technology too but unfortunately I forget the names of the projects.
to be fair
blizzard games has alot of botters/hackers
So I bought Overwatch 1 on launch and have practically everything but don't own a phone (never needed one). So they've 100% stolen the game from me?
Looks like it.
yup
Don't you guys have phones?
I don't understand them putting more roadblocks when I don't think anybody is really lining up for it.
Now what I want is for them to make discord record and give all chats to the feds.
>all these morons implying bullzaed won't have another data leak
>people have PC but not phones
If consumers are okay with this they deserve it
dumb cattle
imagine being a blizz fan
>buy overwatch
>enjoy game
>blizzard announces overwatch 2
>replacing overwatch
>can't ever play the game you like again
>now also requires you to sign an even more draconian EULA, provide your name, address, phone number, and let them record your mic 24/7 as long as the game is installed
Glad I haven't bought anything from them since WotLK.
It hurts bros,,,Why did they force a new game on us
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
join me for a good laugh, anons
Awfully nice of Blizzard to convince me to get back into TF2
I miss the times when people could throw the most obscene profanities at eachother and noone would get offended.
Fricking America keeps ruining life for the rest of the world in every single way.
What do you even mean by America?
jews and puritans who hate fun
a movement started in America by left wing israelites
>Fricking America keeps ruining life for the rest of the world in every single way.
Most of Europe will arrest you for saying anything bad about protected groups (trannies, Black folk, israelites).
Just become a troony, then you'll be a protected group. It's easy, white man.
>a movement started in America
Funny, it was a man flying the Union Jack that invented "gender" and trannies... but I guess that doesn't fit the narrative.
Damn Americans really are low IQ.
>gets proven wrong
>muh americans
I accept your concession anon
New Zealand but he studied in America where he groomed and mutilated the young boy
>america
europe is literally trying to implement its own closed off internet so they can censor you better. They have been lobbying for harsher censorship on tech platforms for fricking years
I will play poorly because I'm disabled and when you curse me out for being bad I'll report you. Welcome to the new age!
Stop playing online games you morons. Play single player games.
Why the frick would I trust Blizzard my phone? Like recording voicechat wasn't invasive enough and shady as hell.
Use discord.
Blizzard still on damage control after they re-hired Bobby Kotick to CEO after he knew about the sexual abuse for years and said/did nothing.
But I want to call someone on my team a moronic homosexual and have it blast thro their speakers so their mom hears
>thinking discord doesn't sell your data
>sexual abuse
Never happened.
Won't recording voice chat require an obscene amount of storage?
Temporary storage, deleted after x amount of time or longer if you get reported.
So yes, but also no.
Even if they just keep reported voice chats for a week that's a lot. It has to save the entire match's voice chat from at least you and maybe other people. And I doubt it'll try to cut out parts of silence since that could lead to it missing a lot so you're gonna have a ton of really long audio files
Not to mention, typically people that get reported for toxicity just get an automated scan of their messages for trigger words, now this is gonna require employees to listen to entire voice chats. Just seems like a lot and weird to try and pull off
Yeah, let me share some more of how it works. It's gonna transcribe the audio to text and store that. So once they process it, mostly just text data. Which, if they delete the audio portion will be fun when the AI fricks up the transcribing...
Basically no human will review the actual audio. All automated, all AI driven.
Oh okay, I was thinking it was something new since a lot of games already do this. Like rainbow six siege.
>RB6
I must have quit before they started that shit.
A.I will assist them and expedite the process. I'm sure it only goes for the words that make twitter users mad.
Are they trying to make the game flop? Even the normies are bothered with how many steps it takes to just a play a fricking game.
Doesn't fricking matter. Blackrock will give social justice companies any money they need.
Bunch of companies like fricking Starbucks and Walmart have started crying about how bad things are getting. Even blackrock doesn't have infinite money, even these big companies still need real stores and products so there is something for people to actually invest in.
>Even blackrock doesn't have infinite money
In today's digital economy, all money is infinite. When the chips are down, just make more. Who's going to stop them? More importantly, who' would stop the people trying to stop the people trying to stop them? They have become our system. If they fall, the economy falls, and China swoops in and takes over.
Alright fine, let me clarify. Currency might be infinite, wealth is not. It doesn't' matter how much shit you fake.
>Who's going to stop them?
I already laid it out. Turns out funding literal bullshit doesn't print you infinite money. Yeah Blackrock sucks dick, but they aren't invincible, companies won't be able to live infinitely off their teat.
They quite literally have infinite money.
Infinite "money" doesn't mean shit.
It does when you have extreme political power and own like 60% of american homes.
its like they are doing the impossible so that people dont play the game
>buy game
>company deletes said game, replaces it with a different game
>cant access old or new game
>money stolen
get a fake phone number, problem solved, frick blizzisraelite
I guess you could say they're making it worse
>Overwatch
It's like poetry
the phone number is so that they can aggregate your data they collect with other data other companies collect that are tied to your phone number probably so they can sell it to the highest bidder and pajeet scammers
The phone number is literally to add a little friction for cheating and banned shits making a new account given its f2p. Just be glad you aren't South Korean and have your game account tied to your national ID number.
It isn't, you can spoof your phone number really easily with free text sites online that give you a random phone number
Activision has been slowly integrating your personal data into the app one step at a time, it doesn't stop people that abuse the system at all, it just takes advantage of honest players and sell their data
Many services are able to tell what is a spoof number and reject them now.
It's not intended to be foolproof. It's there to add friction for the 13 year olds.
>Just be glad you aren't South Korean and have your game account tied to your national ID number.
Can't wait for web3.0 where this becomes the standard worldwide.
I legit don’t answer my phone when I get a call, unless it’s from a number I know. In this day and age, unless you’re calling the doctor or something you initiate, it’s probably a scam
the phone number stuff is pretty standard for f2p shit, but the voice chat recording is unacceptable
no is not, not even close, only scams have done it
csgo and dota require phone number
Yes but Steam allows your whole account to have 2FA. I need it now for like the one game on Blizzard.
CSGO and DOTA won't ban me from the game entirely for saying Black person. Only ranked modes.
I've said Black person hundreds of times in dota and I've never been banned from ranked
Truly the last bastion of free speech in vidya
Valve games in general are pretty good about not banning over hurt feelings like most cucked companies
Shame that the games themselves have all turned shit
It's peak monkeypaw isn't it? The games are garbage but at the same time they're the only games that don't feel sterile and retain some of that early 2000s magic
only for ranked modes
in ow2 you cant launch the game
tired of saying this shit
You can say Black person in all valve games without being banned because they aren't a publicly traded company (not owned by the israelites).
Every game I play nobody fricking talks. Trolls and 12 years Olds that have fricked everyone's mom has ruined voice chat forever.
Nothing is truly free
you guys i do not have phones
no, wtf? normalgays get out
You lubed up your anus when you bought a game that depends on centralized servers; you can’t complain when the wiener slides in.
Yes you can, fricker.
>hurr durr, things I moderately don't like
>that means you can't x
shut the frick up
not the same anon but if you're too much of a pussy to post the actual gif I guess I have to dose everyone
A dose is a dose, it's just a stealth does.
Thanks doc.
Also easier to save on work computers
fair enough, keep on workpostan
Thanks doc
Thanks Doc
NEET right?
Thanks doc
What the frick
thanks doc
Honestly not any different from R6S.
>watching Ganker excuse this when it will probably be necessary for GTA 6
No one besides zoomers are excited for gta 6
remember years back when the Xbox One revealed the kinnect needed to be on and was watching and listening to you? Fast forward and now nobody cares, and people allow phone apps to control their homes, and have devices that literally listen to you in your own home. Sad.
>Overwatch 3
>If you speak out against any protected entities, the KGB - I mean FBI, owned by the Blackrock Union for Equality and Tolerance™ will raid your house and kill you.
The trannies would be squealing with delight.
The pro play is to vocally act like a troony and be mean as hell.
Good time to give up new videogames.
Lol no prepaid plans or VoIP (internet phones)
Don't like it? Just go back to playing Overwatch 1. :^)
>including pre-paid
Kek, I just checked and my number, which I have had for 14 years on a pre-paid carrier because of how much cheaper it is than contract, doesn't work. I hate Blizzard so fricking much.
>literally worst korea SSN homosexualry
Frick this homosexual company
I hope they go bankrupt and take the rest of the industry with them
God forbid you behave and not act like a try hard, edgelord heathen.
Data harvesting for the CCP
I will NEVER tie a phone number to an online account.
>spyware is bad and should never be downloaded
>this is well known
>slap on a money making IP label to that spyware and be published by a massive company
>this is now considered okay
Genuinely explain this
morons need their fix, and will give up any personal details for their dopamine rush.
we're in the most boring dystopia ever conceived
also cute art
it's just the groundwork, the stuff you point back to later and go
>yeah kids, that really big shit started right here and then it got worse
same reason as CIA spying everyone turned from wacko conspiracy to the norm.
BGS
Battered Goy Syndrome
Blizzard is banning wotlk classic/ retail wow players for just saying "it's ok to be white" or "let's go brandon" in trade chat for 20 days.
why are you surprised commiefornia stoops this low?
>why are you surprised commiefornia stoops this low?
Not surprised, just disappointed and mildly mad as things keep getting worse. I'll adopt an apathetic mindset when I'm dead.
Based, you morons need to be exterminated for playing anything Blizzard shits out, and also for bringing politics into gaming.
Are they banning raidtards for criticizing people? They kinda need to do that for some lulz.
Literally don't say Black person Black person Black person like that streamer did and you'll be okay
>cheaters, smurfs, and 12 year olds without phones mad ITT
If you won't post your phone number right now, then you have no leg to stand on.
Will you give me a free game as big as Overwatch for compensation? If Yes then I'll PM it to you through Ganker DM mode.
Yeah, sure. I'll leak it just as often as Blizzard does too.
Give me a day and I'll push out a fat turd, yeah.
So you can't give me a videogame in return for my phone number? Thought so. Gee Gee E Zee, No Ree.
Not just one video game, I'll give you several hundred.
https://gog-games.com/
Those aren't yours. Based reply anyway.
Of course they're mine. I downloaded them.
Heh.
You asked for an OW equivalent. I'm telling you can I make one if you just wait.
Very epic my friend. Well meme'd.
Thanks, I try.
So what's Ganker's privacy policy?
If kids can play it then it's fine by me.
You might get someone signing up for porn using your number, and the occasional spam call. But it likely won't be sold to China.
>tfw 20 year old without phone
If you don't have a phone, how do you talk to your friends or your girlfriend?
I use the browser version of discord
>girlfriend
Contractor under my dad, so pretty much
>Contractor under my dad, so pretty much
At least you're doing something. Just use your dad's phone number if you want to play this shit game.
No way am I giving my dad's info to the ccp, I'll stick with the porn
You need something like mint mobile for 15-20 bucks a month even hobos can afford that.
I didn't have a phone until I was 21. It's okay anon.
I had some phones in high school but I only used it to call my friends to setup meets and stuff.
It wasn't until senior year I used one to have a GF.
What did her poop taste like?
It was okay but she made really good pancakes. Didn't taste bad at all.
Same age here, once my 5 year old iphone 7 that my parents pay for finally shits the bed I'm not buying a new one.
Good. Don’t be useful to a system that wants to mine you for resources.
>tfw you have a crappy burner phone from walmart, and still wouldn't touch this game even if they took it
it's the type of plan they are taking that matters, not the age of the phone
these companies use shills and bots to promote their products but want you to be 'authentic'.
People use voice chat? lol I don't even have a mic connected, good luck recording shit
>recording voice chat
What's the general measure on how much masturbation goes on in Overwatch voice chat I wonder
>phone
Seriously? I can’t even boot up the game to play some Casual without adding my mobile?
>Overwatch 2
Who cares?
The absolute state of pc gayming
Told you guys so, you will live in the pod you will eat the bugs uga chaca laca loo
please don't lump senua in with fricking rehashwatch 2
I'd rather verify my identity by sending Blizzard a photo of my BattleNet ID tattood on my dick.
be careful
voice chat gets recorded anyway
If you were nice to people instead of being mean, this wouldn't be a problem for you .
This really sucks for that one guy still playing overwatch.
I'm still playing with myself to Overwaifus, does that count
What if these moronic decisions are a way of reverse psychology?
I haven't seen so many active Overwatch threads than these threads here these past few days. Are they actually doing 4D chess?
Nah.
I was probably going to try it because it's free.
But now i won't because why give my number for a game i won't play more than a couple of hours?
There's a real easy solution to this.
Don't fricking play it. Like no shit.
Lmao
>give us your real life information to play our game
frick off
i tried streaming overwatch like 5 years ago and all i got was a 5+ minute video of two angry teenagers straight off Ganker throwing a constant verbal tantrum the entire round
link?
Remember realID?
OHOHOHOHOHOHOH
AAAHAHAHAHAAHHA
BLIZZDRONES DESERVE IT
>his thinks his pet company isn't also going to do this to him
sasuga homie
Nobody in this thread seriously believed anonymous, neutral and free internet would last forever, did they? Tyranny of information is a cornerstone of civilized society.
You were just waiting for the coin to land on the other side, and you're upset it didn't.
The coin shouldn't have landed at all. Normalgays are normalgays regardless of what color they vote.
You'd have to be completely ignorant of history to think things would last.
Everyone was ignorant 15-20 years ago, no one knew how fricked things would get.
I have a really cool way to say the N word and get away with It while playing online Games. Its really simple, you just Gotta be creative in the way you type or talk.
Everyone can do it if they try, and if they're Recording your voice it doesn't matter since it'll fly right above their heads.
Wow its almost like I don't care, because I wasn't going to play it anyways. Plus I don't own a smartphone because I'm not a moron who needs to be tied to a GPS to find my way around.
Larping homosexual
>Must be a larp because moronic zoomer/20 something cant imagine life or finding their way around without a phone.
This is the world we live in, these people exist and they're the majority.
Yep. Pretty sad.
Why would a game company need my phone number?
>free to play game requires a $60 monthly phone subscription
lmao
Man, online gaming is such a sad joke. Glad I just play singleplayer games.
Steam already has your phone number so why do you care?
It's okay when Valve does it.
You can launch games without it, you can also use a prepaid phone.
>Steam already has your phone number
??????
You seem confused
You know it costs something like six hundred dollars for an average account on TF2 right?
No fricking way.... this can't be real.... I refuse to believe it
Isn't that illegal?
People are more than willing to do it.
From reading enough threads. Apparently Ganker doesn't actually want to play games online, just call people the n word.
how long are people gonna pretend SMS Protect is new?
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/5202418/introducing-battlenet-sms-protect
>why are people objecting to what used to be 100% optional being made mandatory
Additionally pretty sure battlenet sms protect was not limited to one account per phone number ever
I can't wait for the game to come so we can jerk off to the models once they've been ripped and not actually play the game.
>believing this shit
GUYS GUYS BLIZZARD EMAILED ME AND SAID IF I DONT INPUT MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER THEYLL BAN ME
Cope
I have no words.
haha yeah... what a moronanon
>he doesn't know
I have never seen a game with more dead on arrival flags than this.
Korea has been doing that for a decade and it works fine there.
Lol blizzard apparantly spend big on the shills.
>why would u mind the police fisting your butthole if you have nothing to hide there?
Who knew all u needed to brainwash billions was pixels and some soundwaves
Blame zoomers. They willingly give up privacy left and right because israelites have been slowly conditioning future generations. The frog is being boiled.
Only thing worse is people who try to fit in with that trash. Frick sake. Imagine how happy they mustve been knowing they now dont need to spend billions on bombing buildings to fool the masses
Do you NEED phone number the moment you boot up?
Or do you only need to add Phone if you want to play Ranked? Can someone confirm
The former. The launcher won't let you uh, launch the game until you give them your number like a good goy.
They already do this in Valorant/CSGO/whatever meme FOTM game.
Takeaway is to stick to single-player games or games with community servers.
That’s a good way to kill the game early
99.95% of battle net accounts already have an authenticator attached through their phone anyway, this is literally nothing.
Its a F2P game. If they didnt do this there would be rampant cheating and smurfing and 3rd worlders moreso than there is now.
It didn't have to be F2P game
Don't care; I'm still buying Overwatch 2
I get it
in all seriousness, this has convinced me to play Paladins
It's alright. I won't stop you.
They know this is going to bomb and this is their excuse.
>Play small nobody MUD
>One dev does something stupid
>Another dev calls another him a dumb motherfricker and mentions how much of a prostitute Dev 1's mom is
>Everyone has a chuckles about it
Reject AAA, return to text.
Blizz sould make the forums display your real name
That was the original intent with Real ID though, and the main reason why there was so much backlash to it at first.
Unironically for multiplayer shooters. Those games consistently draw in the most subhuman, vitriolic, underage players, so I think for that specific genre it should be standard.
okay well I bought my current battle.net account about 12 years ago after my actual account was perma'd from WoW for using Glider, so even if they did do that, the dude's name on this account isn't even mine, so you solved nothing.
Blizzard should make it so that instead of a play of the game intro, they show the googlemaps image of your actual IRL house.
No one would simply use the forums then. God forbid you apply to a job and you get denied because you had certain opinions on a game forum.
Employers dont want gamers
If your opinions involve denying others their freedom then you don't deserve your job.
I hope there's a system that just bans you if you scream. That would be great.
Only if you let it be.
Stop playing their garbage and stop advertising freely for it with ragebait trash you stupid fricking homosexual.
I can't believe people still play with voice chat at all. I just call my friends on my cell phone and we talk over that. All I needed was one experience with a frickwit kid telling me to suck his dick, me telling him to get out of the chat, and then his ghetto ass dad coming on to call me a homosexual and asking where I lived so he could come kick my ass. If you're still using voice chat in 2022 you're just as bad as that kid and his dad
Wtf that's the best part of voice chat. Pissing off squeakers and morons is free entertainment, I miss old xbox live.
YOU DUN GOOFED
Would this shit even be used if there was no such thing as E-sports? Isn't most of these requirements because everyone wants to make a career out of playing games now?
Who cares. If you don't have a phone, you've got bigger problems than crying on an anime website about muh freedoms.
Look, basically I'm just not gonna buy the game.
I know UGH, I know.
It's just I'm not buying shit games is all hAHAHAA
It's not possible to buy it anyways
u wot?
It's a subscription type deal then?
It's a fealty system.
Twitter should display the real names and addresses of twitter users so when a mob tries to cancel someone over petty shit, that someone can list the names and addresses of all those responsible and go out for a hunt.
Is Overwatch so good of a game that it "deserves" to normalise NSA/CCP-tier data harvesting as a prerequisite to even boot the game?
No, but blizzdrones will allow it to get a foothold regardless.
>blizzard isnt even hiding their bullshit anymore because bliggers will still pay for it.
and into the trash it goes
I think they're vastly overestimating a lot of people's desire to play Overwatch.
Just buy a burner phone and a cheap sim card.
>Playing overwatch anyway
Wtf does steam need a pho e number for? I don't ever need dto use my phone number on steam wtf??
Remember how even ~15 years ago one of the iron rules of the internet was to never give out private information to anyone?
Fast forward to now, if you don't plaster your social security #, full name and address, phone number and names of your parents and the schools you went to you're a freak.
What happened?
>What happened?
who happened*
?
Things like myspace and facebook happened and morons started to feel comfortable sharing every aspect of their life online for asspats.
>What happened?
Facebook? YouTube? Social media presence? Online transactions requiring identity information? 2FA?
I still use false info on many sites that require it, long as I expect to not need to make any payments for it. Zoomies of today are fricked though and don't hit up a different alias per online location they regular.
don't care, I'm not playing the game, only interested in the rule34 that it will produce.
>game is f2p
>have to spend money on a phone number in order to play
Blizzdrones will defend this
>he doesn't have a phone
I thought that was just a meme ?
every game you have played since 2006 has recorded voice chat, don't be a tard and ever talk in game
holla holla get dolla
>every game you have played since 2006
Quite a claim, now you gotta prove it.
Unironically needed. The majority of people who play these games are mentally unstable. I use voice for calls exclusively, I do not need someone chimping out about NO HEAL throughout the entire game because they fed 1v6 instead of waiting for the rest of the team
ggez
>life steadily gets more invasive and less consumer-friendly and everyone ignores it, or, at worst, gets annoyed that you brings it up because all they care about is muh convenience
many
cases
I hope all matches are being recorded so rapists (teabaggers) get permabanned
YOU STILL DON'T HAVE PHONES?!
They would've had me. I actually was going to give this shitshow a second change before this phone shit, but they're so moronic they can't even draw me back in anymore.
Can anyone please tell me what happens when black people say homie on voice chat?
Do they not get banned too?
Depends on how white you sound and how black your name is on the account
xxx_Goku_420_ThUgLyFe_xxx
>th ugly fe
?
I sound extremely black and hear about it almost every time I use voice. Can I say the n word now?
Sounding black as a non-black is raycis
You know damn well they don't.
How can they tell, though? I constantly get told I sound black on mic, even though I don't say anything racial.
They can tell based on many reports you receive. Enough reports and the automated system mutes you for a week.
blacks are a protected species, same with trannoids.
Trans* people are an endangered species
>Trans* people
No such thing
Gankeroids are less human than trans* people
you're both a transBlack person and you're on Ganker so you're on the lowest rung even among other sub-humans
YABAI
NIGERO!
https://www.pcgamer.com/new-overwatch-2-accounts-have-to-unlock-old-heroes-too/
just gave blizz my phone #
just gave blizz my credit card #
just preordered overwatch 2 and the battle pass
Your wiener cage arrived, did it?
Everyone is gonna be on discord to talk to their friends they play with anyway
That's why modern MP games are so fricking shit. No ability to socialise in the game with the people you're playing with.
That's not the fault of Discord, it's the fault of games being matchmaking-only and hastily guiding you out of the lobby as soon as a match finishes.
I don't play multiplayer games
and just like that, OW2 fricking dies
To be fair, it was never alive to begin with. Most people still think you have had to buy Overwatch 1 to play. This game has the worst marketing I've ever seen for AAA titles.
What does Blizzard even want these days? They seem to not want to work on any of their games, they can't want money since they're burning so much and not hyping up investors, they can't want praise because nothing they've done lately has gotten them any.
Are they just trying to cover their ears until the bad times stop and they're not under so much scrutiny?
Money
But they're not making any off this and they sure as shit won't make any doing moronic business practices.
Actiblizzard is ran by literal government spooks. Their only goal is using old IPs for propaganda purposes and normalizing the most invasive business practices imaginable.
glownigs can just print money whenever they want, they don't need lootbox money that kids steal from their parents.
>want to play ow2
>ask me to put my Phone because of reasons
>"Frick it, I want to play with D.va"
>play the game
>its the same game again
>have some fun but quit the game and never open it again
>someday blizzard has another leak
>now some Black person on Angola started to send messages offering a home office manager position on Amazon
I really hate this timeline
I have a second sim in an old phone for just this purpose, I use it to sign up for any shitware and just disable all notifications.
Come home, white man
is it free to play?
Ye
sure is
With lootbox
>"worldwide" release
>isn't actually worldwide
I hate Black folk
>I hate Black folk
well, that's good, because they're the only ones not allowed to play
america is nothing but Black folk so clearly that's not the case
Blizzard
>Say "run away" in your language
>money stolen
You will never be japanese.
Girls will play this. They don't care who calls them. Nobody uses a landline anymore. Who cares if corporations listen in on your life and use it to target you with adds. I want more stuff that I like to be made. There's a higher chance I'll finally meet someone that likes the same shit I do. Pander to me corpo mommy. Eat my cum Blizzard. Keep inviting me to betas for games I'll never purchase.
I love girls