{"id":61260,"date":"2022-10-08T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/uncategorized\/blizzard-updates-overwatch-2s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs\/"},"modified":"2022-10-08T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T16:53:40","slug":"blizzard-updates-overwatch-2s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/overwatch\/blizzard-updates-overwatch-2s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Updates Overwatch 2&#8217;s SMS Requirement, Acknowledges Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/blizzard-updates-overwatch-2s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs_6341ab14629bd.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/blizzard-updates-overwatch-2s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs_6341ab14629bd.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/blizzard-updates-overwatch-2s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs_6341ab14629bd-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1tcxgp3-o_O-style_48hmcm-o_O-style_dx59f4\" data-mm-id=\"_e6v9o84v9\">The SMS requirement, which was originally a <a class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1x6hgip\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/how-to-activate-sms-protection-for-overwatch-2-01ge4rxqjq1v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prerequisite<\/a> to play the game, was one of the many problems associated with Overwatch 2&#8217;s release Tuesday. The most significant issues involved players being <a class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1x6hgip\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/overwatch-2-sms-protect-in-unusable-state-01gekn4fkw8b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">locked out<\/a> when using a single phone number for more than one account, or when using a <a class=\"tagStyle_13haoeb-o_O-style_1x6hgip\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/blizzard-to-remove-phone-number-requirement-for-majority-of-overwatch-2-players-01gepmp2gef2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prepaid phone number<\/a> when activating their SMS protection. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbltap.com\/posts\/blizzard-updates-overwatch-2-s-sms-requirement-acknowledges-bugs-01gew0ck4r0a?utm_source=RSS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Updates Overwatch 2&#8217;s SMS Requirement, Acknowledges Bugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":61261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61263,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61260\/revisions\/61263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itgesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}