After some research I understand now that once you link a phone number to an Overwatch account, even if you remove it from that said account, you won’t be able to link that same number to any other Overwatch account. It’s basically forever linked, used, marked, forced, attached, stuck to that first account. Which by the way, it’s very peculiar, not user friendly at all and a very intriguing choice by Blizzard.
But the interesting part here is that my previous account was deleted, because I asked for it, so basically right now, this email that I’m using was freed, and is now a brand new account, I suppose, therefore the phone number that was linked before should be free too, since the account that it was first linked to is gone, like, forever, it doesn’t exist, it’s not here anymore, it’s just a memory in my brain.
It’s also extremely abnormal and kind of creepy that I have to share a personal file like a phone bill, which contains personal information like my address and my tax number, so that someone that I don’t know from anywhere on this globe can simply click a button and make it possible for me to play a game, that, by the way, is free to play. All of this because of a phone number, that never was necessary to play any videogame in the history of videogames, never is and never will be, because, oh, you only need a computer, a mouse, a keyboard and internet access. Only Blizzard to get to this level of psychotic and chaotic behaviour, at this point.
That being said, I have no choice but to share with a game master my phone bill, or I’ll have to do what?.. Get a new phone number? Ask someone else to let me use their phone number? Nonsense. Thanks Blizzard, always helping people that still supports them, even after Overwatch 2 fiasco.