Hi.
I have owned overwatch since its launch and also played the beta.today i try to log in to overwatch 2 using my existing account,i look at connections and it says my sons PSN account is linked to my overwatch account which shouldn’t be possible as i played on PS4 and always played on my own account.
~Anyway i have unlinked my sons PSN from my account it doesn’t belong there and i am getting the above message.
a full year locked out of my own product is kinda a bit excessive don’t you think?
in what reality is a 1 year wait to link accounts normal?
what is the logic/reasoning behind such unwarranted and irrational security measures.
does anyone know who i can contact at blizzard to fix this god awful problem.if i can’t play a new game at launch and am forced to wait a year lol then said game is dead to me for obvious reasons and gets no money from me.
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I have the exact same problem I am on Xbox and accidentally linked the wrong battle net account to my Xbox profile because I hadn’t played overwatch in over a year and forgot which email I used only to find it was the wrong account with nothing on it and when I went to change it to the correct one I and supposedly meant to wait a year this is beyond a joke seriously in what world is that ok I want to buy the battle pass and start playing the game again but I’m not going to sink in time and effort on a brand new account when I have my original account with years worth of grinding readily available only being stopped by some ludicrous wait to add it!!!
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indeed.i feel your pain.
I cannot think of one other game where a 1 year lockout is even a thing.i mean,its not like i have failed to log in to my account 30 times and triggered some sort of security check,its a simply 3rd party linking!
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I accidentally linked my blizzard account to my kids Psn account. Now it says i qill have to wait 364 days to attach a new account. Does that also mean my old account it was linked to before? Will it let me change it since its technically not a new account? i already had it linked. Dont want to try to change it an get locked out of playing it. As of right now i can play it under my kids Psn.
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Agreed, it’s extremely excessive for an easy mistake.
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I have the same issue, as I linked my battle net into another account and now I just play bored coz it’s annoying not having my gold skins and stuff Yunno
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Similar situation here, absolutely ridiculous cooldown… even one month would be a bit excessive but a whole year!!! This has to be changed… Don’t even feel like playing now that my original account with all the prestigious skins are locked elsewhere… Would be understandable to have like couple of weeks of CD on the first time you swap accounts and then start increasing from there…
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Same issue here, i had the wrong acount linked and now this? can’t believe it.
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same problem 365 day it’s the same is permanent ban like imagine losing everything because of this !!
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Ya thats why i dont want to unlink my sons account an back to mine. I will be locked out. Right now i can play but only under his PSN account
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Im thinking this is what happened to me, but not on purpose? I never went into my battlenet and connected my xbox to it. Idk how or when it linked to my gmail account one. Anywho, its acting like im a new player to OW. I do have another battlenet account (i must have made two at some point for a different game im guessing) Im thinking i have to unlink from the one account and onto the other. But with this year cooldown, i cant ?
The above message from TechSupport makes it sound like if youre connecting a NEW account. Idk…should i try it ? Im scared ill make things more messy till i hear back from the ticket i put in. 
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Same for me , i linked the wrong account and now i need to wait 1 year … just a joke
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Right I just did the same thing. Been playing on the xbox since OW1. The messaging wasn’t clear. It looked like it was merging both account but my psn profile overrode my xbox account!
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It’s been 24 hours and they still haven’t responded to my ticket
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I really hope that it can be fixed, because it just happened to me and I will keep checking up on this page until something happen
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I had this. Had an old Xbox account and wanted to link my new Xbox account. Heeded the warning and took out the old account and just went ahead and added the new one with success!
Has anyone tried to just go ahead and add the new account?
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Im gonna try it I think. Im going to show this thread to my boyfriend first and see what his opinion is on all this. If I do it, ill post my results either way here!
I hope it works for everyone and not just me. It would be super stupid to have to wait a full year.
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