Masters and Grand Masters are ruining the lower tiers. Making it to where its 1 account per IP address would help. Less of a SR drop on the team where a member leaves would be nice also. Tired of being penalized to severly when someone leaves the team.
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I agree with the sentiment but,
One account per IP makes no sense. One account per Machine would be better. But do you really think they can just snatch away those already existing multiple accounts that customers Paid for OR give out refunds to potentially thousands of purchases?
I think you have to come up with something else.
Smurfs are not that big of an issue. As for the SR loss, ehhâŚI can live with it.
Smurfs I think are an issue but there are also plenty of people that simply derank their main.
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Realistically speaking, if you have a big household and your under the legal limit. No parent is going to shill out 30-60 dollars for every kid in the house hold to play the game.
So on consoles, some people actually create alt accounts on their consoles so siblings can play. Etc
Maybe a ban then on smurfs and people that leave mid game after so many offenses.
Unfortunately Existing Smurfs I donât think will ever be âbannedâ as they are paying customers of Activision/Blizzard and otherwise would have to be refunded.
Stopping New Smurfs I also donât think will ever happen as that is basically Activision/Blizzard turning down money.
I personally have been banned for 8 hours (2 or 3 times) for leaving a competitive match mid-game so this proves people ARE already getting banned at least in competitive and the bans just dont last very long.
There are also people that experience Disconnects from the Overwatch servers that receive the same punishment as people that leave mid-game which makes sense because you could go in the menu and click leave game or jank out your ethernet wire with the same result. You wouldnât want people to get very lengthy bans because of experiencing actual network problems.
I think Deranking is an issue that should be solvable quite easily and I wonder why Blizzard is still allowing this 2years after releaseâŚ
Actually the Terms of Service donât allow for purposefully Deranking itâs just that the rules are not being enforced
If you reduce the loss of sr in case someone leaves groups could use it to reduce their sr loss in case they have no chance to win. And you could avoid ld ban for smurf acc by using vpn i think. The real issue is how you gain sr in the first place. You are punished for bad teammates and in lower elos you have a lot of them. One way to at least improve this would be a hard ladder reset each season.
One of many reasons I no longer actively play âcompetitive playâ. I stick to âquick playâ via LFG.
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Smurfs quickly move out of lower skill tiers. The only way they still within the low tiers is by throwing matches, which is a bannable offence.
They could just ban extra accounts by machine id from COMP, they would still be able to play the game.
They donât run around and yell âI THROWâ ⌠they just play worth enough to lose and you canât report people for not hard carry the game. And almost always people just blaming dps for a lose ⌠not the tanks and healers who are realy bad more often than dps.
But some master or gm healer or tank mains just want to play dps too and they know they arenât that good with them and they smurf because they donât want to derank. Would be unfair towards them.
If you want to play dps play it.
People shouldnât be able to eat their cake and have it too,
Especially when it impacts other people.
Maybe not one account per IP, but all SR gains/loses are shared by all using that IP.
So if you do good on a main, then switch, your smurf is as high as your main. Or throw on an alt, your mains feels the throws.
Some players carryed their way up to the top with getting realy good with lets say playing Rein âŚ. why punish them when they want to play dps for ones? Do they not deserve to play other heroes ones in a while?
Doesnât it impact your team to pick a dps you play on gold lvl on a masters acc? Isnât it basicly throwing the game? Isnât it unfair agaisnt the rest of the team?
Why bother buying an other acc than?
Why does everyone expect that smurfs are automaticely thrower? Some are just trying out new heroes and they are not as good as with their mains.
Do you want to know what is a much bigger issue in lower ranks? Itâs full of people who play only 4-5 hours a season and they have no idea how the game works. They have zero gameknowledge, zero gamesense, zero teamplay and they instantly come to the conclusion that if they lose the game itâs because there is a thrower. I see so many players in gold who canât do the most basic **** ⌠itâs unbelievable.