On: Overwatch 2 will require a phone number to play

[jwilber]

They only except certain providers, so no Google phone, prepaid, etc.

[dbttdft → jwilber]

> No prepaid

Great, so I will never play your game.

It's amazing how many oblivious, ultra consumer, pro- getting scammed, pro-monopoly, pro- proprietary protocol, people are on this so-called hacker forum. The policy you are asking for is literally one of the highest things I've ever seen that go against the hacker ethos. If you pay more than $10/mo for a smart phone in the US (prime audience of this site), you are getting scammed, no even then it's a scam as you're getting something only worth 0.001 cents.

[jwilber → dbttdft]

I guess because what I wrote seemingly doesn’t agree with your viewpoint I am all of those things.

Not sure what the cell phone bit is about.

[colinmhayes → dbttdft]

Being able to play competitive video games is not the hacker ethos. If you don’t want to comply with their rules that’s fine.