Anyone who has fun in Overwatch can now be more effectively banned 
The blog post says Overwatch 2 is adding SMS Protect to help with issues of account verification and banning disruptive players. Free-to-play games sometimes suffer from higher rates of cheaters, so-called smurfs (experienced players who deliberately lose matches so they can play at lower skill tiers) and other disruptive players when there are no barriers to entry. Adding phone numbers is one way to block those kinds of players.
"The same phone number cannot be used on multiple accounts at the same time, and players can't use the same phone number to create multiple accounts," Blizzard says in the blog post. "A phone number can only be used once when making a new account, and certain types of numbers, including pre-paid and VOIP, cannot be used for SMS Protect."
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Can't believe how much that company is making even after dropping off a cliff. G*mers are r-slurred and deserve everything they get. They want to be bullied.
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G*mers deserve to be killed
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The virgin Overwatch player Vs the Chad TF2 enjoyer
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Gonna go play some TF2 right now!
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Nice try, but g*mers are actually quite intelligent and know exactly what they're doing when they spend their hard-earned money on games and gaming devices. They're not the ones who are r-slurred, but you clearly are for thinking that g*mers are nothing but a bunch of gullible sheep.
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You are right about a lot of things, but this is not one of them.
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Thank you for your consideration, I'm glad we can still be friends even though we disagree!
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First of all,
@bbbb never asked too be friends with you in the first place. Second of all, the only reason 
@bbbb is still considering you is because 
@bbbb don't want too be rude. But make no mistake, 
@bbbb would much rather not have anything too do with you.
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You don't have to ask to be my friend
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Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass.
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You can't determine who I consider my friend, friend.
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Believe it or not, a lot of people who play games aren't capital-g G*mers and just casually enjoy what's popular. That's where the majority of players are coming from, increasing the population of their games and, by proxy, the number of whales. Don't underestimate the power of a casual audience.
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I think nothing of normies.
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Wow, that's so quirky and unique of you. Way to be a special someone!
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Thanks!
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