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Smurfing on consoles is another issue that the development team is carefully reviewing. The problem there again is the policies of those consoles. Console manufacturers emphasize the use of “family-sharing” of their PlayStation Network or Xbox Live subscription services. Consoles rely on making the platform friendly for families.

@JeffreyKaplan

this is a very hard problem to solve but we have some ideas. any solution is more long term, though. possibly OW2 or later. sorry i know that’s not the answer you wanted but it’s actually very complicated with the way consoles work and the rules regarding account creation.

As far as the use of Alternate Accounts in general goes… Scott Mercer has the latest comment on that.

@Scott Mercer

“Smurfs” are another topic we’re discussing, but it’s important to note that there’s a lot of different issues here. Let me start by saying if you throw a bunch of games to derank so you can then rise back up to a higher SR, that is considered gameplay disruption and action can be taken against that account. Don’t do that, folks.

Things get a little murkier when the “smurf” is a brand new account. We have multiple different systems in the matchmaker to try and identify new players skill and adjust quickly such as win streak bonuses, increased rate of MMR change for new players, and we still make some adjustments based on your personal performance until the player reaches a high SR. We can tune these more aggressively, but it can create negative consequences for players who actually ARE new. So we’re looking at some new ways to identify skill so we can quickly identify the players who skill and SR don’t match. It’s a tricky problem, but we’re working on it.

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