You're making great posts in this thread. Most don't care. They just look at the OP and hit reply in rage.
SMS protect has been a thing on Battle.net for YEARS. Guilds in WoW limit guild bank access to accounts with it active. Overwatch 2, because it's 100% free to play and anyone can make a burner account, requires it to prevent the Smurf accounts and cheating that the first game has been plagued with for years to this point. Where people had to PAY to make a Smurf account in the first game, OW2 removes that barrier; so it needed another - requiring the account to have 2FA turned on.
But we have an OP here that fails to explain ANY of this and just posts outrage bait to enrage people into shitposting:
- It's a F2P shooter where the original game had a massive Smurf account problem, so they're requiring people to use 2FA to prevent that.
- Yea no shit new players have to pay for what old players had to pay for.
- Both Xbox and PlayStation record your party chat for moderation purposes (and yes that's BS, and yes people were mad when that was revealed) but that is conveniently memory-holed in this instance when people use it as an excuse to not play OW2 while they still play games on their consoles that do the exact same thing.
Most smart people enable 2FA on games that support it.