Blizzard’s other moderating mechanisms remain in place. To play Overwatch 2, each player must link a phone number to their Battle.net account, and that phone number cannot be linked to another account. You can’t still utilise VOIP, WiFi, text-only, or internet phone services to validate your account, so forget about resurrecting your old Google Voice number as a workaround. You don’t need to bother about SMS verification if you played the original Overwatch. Audio transcriptions for reported voice conversation recordings, as well as automatic review tools for combing over the generated text, are still in use as moderation tools.
