I played all day. Every single match had either a smurf or a thrower in silver/bronze. This one guy was spawnkilling with Doomfist and we were helpless
“lmao ur just not that good”
nah duh I’m in bronze. Players throwing to get to bronze needs to be punishable. Players that abuse matchmaking so they can be matched against inferior players is not fair. Blizzard needs to at least acknowledge this, its 2020 nothing has changed except it got worse.
Sounds great - nothing will come of your complaint - Smurfing is A-OK with blizard.
Yeah, and they even gave higher ranked player a reason to smurf. Queue time.
Why would anyone play at a high rank if wait time is over 20 minutes? If they want to, they can just choose the rank they want to play at based on the queue time.
You do notice that it isnt blizz’s fault? We asked for role queue. We got it.
We asked for so many changes. We got them.
It is the community’s fault.
Blizzard can stop it. They’re just too lazy to do anything. Plus while they neglect the problem, each smurf is paying more money for the game.
They have acknowledged it. Jeff said on the old forums that smurfing is okay because apparently they get put back to their own rank quickly. Which honestly doesn’t matter when there’s so many smurfs.
People always say this but when I played there, I saw only few of them so i find that very hard to believe.
There are a lot of victims flagged as smurfs or smurf-like despite being totally innocent. I don’t want to see innocent accounts punished so much as I want to see the entire system reworked.
It is entirely the system designer’s fault for user behaviour. You don’t ship a trash app and blame users for making it crash. You don’t tell those users making your app crash that they aren’t allowed to use it.
You own up and redevelop it against abuse.
I actualy counted them and on all 3 roles from low low/mid bronze to 2000 i saw only:
3x smurfs(enemy team) and 3x throwers(my team)
My temas had smurfs 2x, 2x thrower in enemy team
People just need to drop it and stop taking this “Competitive” mode seriously because in the past 3 years Blizzard have failed to balance their game and punish cheaters, throwers, smurfs, leavers and derankers appropriately.
They just keep changing this game in the wrong direction all the time, it’s headed down the drain just accept it.
Bronze is like 1499. A gold Doomfist/Reader at 2100 +/- 200 can easily lose 700 points when they take up Tracer as a main. They weren’t throwing. They were just very committed to learning comp Tracer and found it more difficult.
Then when they land in bronze, they massage their egos by telling people they threw, when really they are garbage at Tracer. They get a hankerin to deal some damage so they pull out a Reaper for a round or two. ez
This is precisely why Blizzard wants smurfs. They encourage it because it means profit.
It would be funny if they lost profits to some kind of class action that exposes their rigging, wanton ladder negligence, forced anti-competition, but simultaneous esports branding and path2pro marketing hype.
Like which one is it? Clean gaming or no-reset hidden mmr-rigged alt-infestation?
We asked million times lvl 100 for competitive and we dont have this. Dont lie.
So tired of avoiding lvl 25 accounts throeing games to smurf in bronce.
And I’m tired of hitting them on the way up, whenever I win 2-3 and the game flags me as trying to climb.
you are using the word anti-competition, im not sure you know what it means…
like for real dude? i get that in hamburger land you can sue for being alive, but the rest of the world lives in reality…how are they going to be sued for anti-competition in THEIR OWN IP??? no judge would even bother, no lawyer would be stupid enough to try the case.
Smurfing is largely caused by the algorithmic handicapping of competitive play. More info:
I hear this smurfing problem so much. Not sure if people actually smurf or it’s the poor match maker (probably both). Just as an example: Started my rank at about 2000, reached 1500 pretty quickly with loss streaks. No, i did not want to loose.
I rarely feel like smurfs are on my or the opposite team. Perhaps it’s just because I’ve accepted the matchmaker is doing a poor job.
Long queue times because the skill level is higher caliber… that doesn’t mean justification for making a smurf account. Just means more people need to climb. No ones going to climb because of smurfs.
what he said, you don’t blame the customer for problems in your product you own up to the issues and try to address them till they are fixed especially the matchmaker it’s so weird… its the weirdest i’ve felt in any game and i don’t even mind losing it just feels super weird when you do because someone is either afk, purposefully feeding 1v6, or refusing to use their ults the entire match so 8+ min doesn’t use 1 ult… especially when I can get one it feels like every 2min there’s no way someone doesn’t know at this point to use their ultimate and that it doesn’t carry into next round (especially not a new account). <— those things get to you and make you play other games trust me i did…