{"id":23252,"date":"2022-10-05T17:51:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T15:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1716680"},"modified":"2022-10-05T18:08:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T16:08:31","slug":"how-to-merge-overwatch-2-accounts-and-set-up-cross-progression","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/how-to-merge-overwatch-2-accounts-and-set-up-cross-progression\/","title":{"rendered":"How to merge Overwatch 2 accounts and set up cross-progression"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Daniel Furn\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 05 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Moving a live-service game to a new platform is always tricky, with years of stats, ranks and skins at risk that players have spent precious time and money on.<\/p>\n

Overwatch 2<\/a> faced this particular conundrum with Overwatch 1 shutting down<\/a> and all players moved to the free-to-play sequel.<\/p>\n

Luckily, however, everything can be brought with you no matter what platform you played on as all you need to do is merge your accounts.<\/p>\n

However, linking said accounts can be a bit tricky and you only get one shot to get this right \u2013 so here\u2019s everything you need to know about merging your Overwatch 2 accounts.<\/p>

How to link Overwatch 2 accounts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

To bring over your Overwatch progress and enable cross-progression, you need to merge your Overwatch accounts with a Battle.net account. A Battle.net account is required to play Overwatch 2 on all platforms anyway, so you\u2019ll need to create an account regardless if you don\u2019t already have one.<\/p>\n

PC players will already be playing on a Battle.net account, but console users may need to set one up. You can create a Battle.net account linked to your Overwatch account by following these simple steps:<\/p>\n