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No update hyiltiz... I seriously doubt if anyone from twitch even looks at this forum - it's more of a place for support to direct people to so they can complain about flaws, thinking that they might accomplish something while doing little but wasting time.
Again, this is just simply about honoring the settings twitch has in place already. Here is another thread (opened in 2022!) regarding pretty much the same thing - https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310201-chat/suggestions/45270061-verified-only-chat-site-wide
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Actually, I do have an update, but not the kind you mean. Since this hit my account about three and a half months ago, I have diverted slightly over $55,000 on stuff I've bought for work that I would ordinarily have bought from Amazon (who owns Twitch) to other retailers and will continue to do this until the issue is resolved.
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Just wait until they ban you from chatting completely without cell phone verification - hit me yesterday. https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310201-chat/suggestions/45270061-verified-only-chat-site-wide
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My account of 7 years was flagged by this 'feature' during a stream yesterday 2025-04-17 - went from normal to suddenly having a popup telling me I need to provide a mobile number in order to chat. In a channel I'm subscribed to. No explanation of why & all support says is to come here to complain. I've been banned from 2 channels during all of my time on Twitch - once for a joke that the streamer didn't understand & the other was without explanation - so it's not like I'm a horrible person and have been banned from so many channels that it triggered this.
The only cell phone I have is for work & I am not allowed to use it for stuff like this. I guess I could get a prepaid burner phone for a month to complete this, but I really should not need to. Support told me to come here, but this has been open for nearly 3 years and sounds like there's no progress on anything. I'm a big watcher of twitch, usually having 1-2 streams open and actively chatting in them.
Since it's obvious that Twitch no longer cares about their people, I signed up for a site named after what a punter does to a football last night & have to say that there are FAR less weird interface quirks / glitches than on Twitch, plus they don't have annoying video shrinking to hawk a subscription service. Really hope that more of the streamers I follow move there & several seem interested in doing so since I shared what happened on Discord. Universally, they were dismayed and angry that Twitch is forcing me out like this.
This is just ridiculous... why even have the 'verified only' chat setting if you're going to make everybody add their cell number anyway? Twitch is trying to bully people into giving them information they do not need. (Shortly after I joined twitch back in 2018, their database was hacked & everyone's passwords / emails / phone numbers were compromised - forgive me if I don't want to be part of it the next time it happens, even if I could add my work phone.) I'm not going to allow myself to be bullied, even though most of my friends are now online.
Thank you very much Twitch - you've just ripped away a big part of what little social life this introvert had. :( Keep it up and you'll continue driving people away.
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This 'logic' must be why there are no more Dragon Warrior streams - all Dragon Quest, even though the box, cartridge, and in-game text all read Dragon Warrior. Just silly IMO... just because a game is based on another doesn't mean it's not it's own game. Look at Heroes of Might & Magic 1-3... 2 and 3 are obviously built upon the previous games; with this reasoning, there should only be a HOMM1 category as the other two weren't completely independent. Same with Elder Scrolls games - can't have anything but Arena for a category because Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim are all based on a game I bought on floppy disk back in the early 90s.
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Just found this thread. FYI, here are other threads about the same garbage:
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310201-chat/suggestions/49779029-honor-the-verified-accounts-only-setting
https://twitch.uservoice.com/forums/310201-chat/suggestions/45270061-verified-only-chat-site-wide
Since this hit my account of 7+ years this past April, I've been diverting as much spending as I can from Amazon (who owns twitch) to other retailers for both my personal purchases as well as those I make for work. Yes, this is a drop in the bucket for them, but it will count up over time & makes me feel like I'm doing *something* in retaliation.
Typical twitch - fix what isn't broken, break stuff in the process, don't fix what is. Just FailFish all around on their part...