> I don’t understand how this is controversial. First and foremost: Because it's a gimmick on top of being annoying. Second and very important: Because phone

> I don’t understand how this is controversial. First and foremost: Because it's a gimmick on top of being annoying. Second and very important: Because phone numbers do not actually fix anything. People will pool numbers, people will buy new numbers ($1). But since you already got baited on the hook, you will all happily accept photo ID as the next "fix" as well as whatever comes after that. Because I've literally watched gamers complain about practically the same shit since the year 2000 and layers of new snake oil were added by the corporations to appease you, and you still complain since these gimmicks predictably amount to nothing aside from making it more annoying to play the game. Because not everyone has a phone. Because kids don't have phones (yeah I know this is changing). Because phone is not the internet. Because phones suck. Because phone numbers change. Because I don't want more stuff tied to my phone (which I don't have) that needs to change when my number changes. Because it's another way for your game to break. Phone might not work at the time or the message wont be received or your phone is crashing/updating as usual and that adds another 5 minute delay before you can start the game, or you forgot to charge the phone. Which brings up the same point: because phones suck, why the hell do I need to hold a separate physical device to use what is essentially a different email account which is on an entirely different network and both networks have to be up all the time to be able to do anything? The above point is extremely pertinent. About every 19 in 20 games I have played since the year 2000 have had some obtuse login, onboarding, social, whatever the hell bogus system with all kinds of dangling third parties and if any one of them broke or you clicked the wrong button you'd have to spend possibly an hour just making the game start up. Perhaps with one of the most successful games ever made this may not be an issue, but for the rest of the games, this certainly is. Because I don't want gamedevs to have my phone number (nor the hassle of setting up a throwaway). Because of all the reasons I hate email verification (which is utterly pointless aside from helping grannies not lose their account, since this is what captcha is for) as well. Because the company will fuck up every possible thing imaginable so the phone will have some huge downside I didn't think of yet. > I hope all multiplayer games start to add in this type of requirement No. Kindly keep that, far away from anything I use, pretty please. Thank you. I will never add it to my games, either.