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This essentially doesn’t work now either, unfortunately. A lot of the latest AAA games will only allow you to play multiplayer if your account ALSO has a verif
by nixgeek 4y ago
This essentially doesn’t work now either, unfortunately.
A lot of the latest AAA games will only allow you to play multiplayer if your account ALSO has a verified phone number attached, and they only let you attach each number to a single account, plus they filter out phones which are not postpaid (so no using services like Twilio).
- aussieshibe 4y agoHow do they differentiate prepaid and postpaid phone numbers? Is there some way they can check with the provider for a given number? Seems less than ideal from a privacy perspective.
- thn-gap 4y agoWhen they launched Overwatch 2, you couldn't play if you tried to verify your account with a prepaid phone. This was problematic since they closed Overwatch 1 servers (it's a paid, online only game) for Overwatch 2, a free to play game. Some people found themselves that they could no longer play the Overwatch franchise after having bought the $40 original game because of this. This was later rolled back and they allowed prepaid phones. So they can definitely distinguish them.
- daveoc64 4y agoThere are APIs that can provide that information.
- nixgeek 4y agoSomething like this is how many companies approach it: https://developer.telesign.com/enterprise/docs/phone-id-identity-attributes-subscriber-status https://developer.telesign.com/enterprise/docs/phone-id-iden...
- xeyownt 4y agoMy god. Any company doing that enters in my do-not-buy-ever list.
- maccard 4y ago> A lot of the No. Overwatch 2 did this and rolled it back pretty much immediately. CS:GO and DOTA2 don't require it but it they gate competitive play behind it. That's not a lot of AAA games.
- blibble 4y agoI can pick up 20 free SIMs from my local phone store...