Overwatch 2: How to merge accounts

Overwatch 2 is now live and we can reveal how the gaming community can transfer skins and merge their accounts from the first game.

The free-to-play game is a first-person shooter developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment and is a direct sequel to Overwatch.

With the first being so successful and popular for around seven years and no doubt Blizzard will be hoping Overwatch 2 replicates this and meets the high expectations.

With gamers having over six years of unlockable content on Overwatch, it is no shock to see many curious about whether they can merge their Overwatch accounts and transfer skins into Overwatch 2.

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What is great about Overwatch 2 is the fact that the gaming community can merge accounts even if they had multiple copies of Overwatch across many consoles. In order to do this, players will have to use Battle.net. Everything from Overwatch 1 can carry over.

Here are four simple steps showing you how you can merge your accounts:

With so many characters having multiple skins, many of these have taken players a lot of time and effort to unlock, it is no shock to see why many are wondering whether you can transfer skins in Overwatch 2.

These Overwatch fans will be over the moon to hear that all the skins for all the characters in the game will transfer over to Overwatch 2 if their account merger is successful. This is why it is so important to make sure you enter the right details when you are merging your account.

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