Normally I’m all for accessibility and not overcharging for things.
Overwatch has pushed me on this front.
Ever since they booped the price down to $20 I spend most of my games getting steamrolled by DPS accounts with ten hours logged in the game.
It’d be great to be able to actually play against people of my own low skill level, but instead I have basement Hanzo instakilling my team for the whole match using his third new account of the week.
This isn’t even touching on normal balancing gripes such as role lock and so on. This is me not even being able to make out normal balancing issues because I’m too busy getting steamrolled by a net $60 in smurf accounts every other match.
Sometimes it really is every other match.
Blizzard threw this game in the dumpster for people who play casually and don’t want to put $100 a month into it.
But I think Overwatch needs a better MM, actually a better Skill based MM, like apex legends. I don’t mind smurfs unless they are throwimg matches (deranks), but I understand that it can be unfair for new or casual players
I can recall that most of my games in quickplay or arcade…(do not play rank anymore ) I have seen an smurf at least in each match. Yeah I know is a msurf cause I have a lot of hours in the game to know that a new level do not control hammond, know all the palces to hang where the healthpacks are… and when is not working change to phara or widowmaker with same results.
I feel sad for the ones of level 6 that really are level 6, fail their ultimates and are blamed by the rest of the team in a toxic way for not knowing the game. (like a diva level 6 that was having a hard time).
So yes awesome game… where the lvl 10 is not lvl 10 and the ones that are have to suffer such steamroll over and over…and all Blizzard can say is… “get gud” or “it is not a problem”. Not strange how the number of accounts raise but the number of real users has dropped largely and keeps going down.
So are we back yet at “every low level account thats new must be a GM Smurf”.
You people are killing yourself over this topic. There are also plats and Golds with Alt Accounts so yes they know their way around the map but you guys seem to hard throw every time you see a low level account thats not actually new. I have seen Diamonds throw games because I played on an alt Account even though I’m barely low plat. Obviously they accused me of smurfing and that I a low Plat D.Va Main on Hanzo has corrupted their game and sucked all the fun out of it. Yeah no you were hard throwing because you only saw my level not my actual skill.
We can hope it’s only temporary. The game just went to 20$. This causes an influx of smurfs and new players. So yeah, the matchmaking is totally out of its league. But give it one or two months to separate smurfs and new players, and it should get better.
I hope.
Yes the matchmaker is awful right now. It’s all about fast, low quality matches. I haven’t really noticed many smurfs but it does seem you get on average two players way below your rank, two players (including yourself) at your rank, and two players way above your rank in every game. Depending on what roles get the really good or the really bad players you can get easy wins or impossible to win matches.
No, smurfs are not getting banned. The reply to reports is automated, so it makes you feel better as a potentially valued customer who likes to report things.
Smurfs don’t have to pay for alternate accounts. Alternate accounts are free on consoles. Smurfing is actually promoted, but many don’t want to see it. We are the only ones that care, so enjoy caring and playing.
Now go and buy those celebration collections for the skins, to show us all how much you love this game. You know you want those skins, so you may continue being cannon fodder for smurfs. You know you want to. Buy them.
Unfortunately I wouldn’t say it’s a problem with new smurfs, it’s a problem with the matchmaker. I don’t want to play competitive but I want something reasonably fair and wish I could select a ‘medium’ (not quick) play option that would be more concerned with getting a good game than just throwing people together within a minute.
No, what caused this was the hundreds of thousands of free PC copies that OWL teams kept giving away to get “new players” meanwhile people were getting like 10 copies for themselves while these copies barely saw the hands of new players as most of the people who watch OWL are current players lol.
