Blizzard Details How Overwatch 2's Cross-Progression and Account Merge Works

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In a new blog post, Blizzard has detailed how Overwatch players will be able to merge their accounts ahead of the launch of Overwatch 2 on October 4.

Overwatch 2 will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One and will feature cross-play. The original also supports cross-play, but players had separate progression for each platform. This meant you couldn't use cosmetics you had unlocked on PC on your Xbox.

Starting today, players can merge any of these separate platform accounts as long as they are linked to the same Battle.net profile. Then, Blizzard will consolidate your cosmetics once Overwatch 2 launches.

The blog post goes into great detail about how this will all work, but it's good news for Overwatch fans who want to browse different platforms. Although I plan to play mostly on PC, it's nice to see that I can still use my Winston safari outfit if I want to play a little on my Switch here and there.

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