I have multiple accounts. Do I count as multiple persons now?
You are deluded.
Who doesent? Especially companies.
Isnāt that the whole reason to be a company ? The main priority is to make money!! Everything else that follow isā¦how do we make more money !!! Like do you see charity making videos games ?
Define smurfing, and define cheating. Not all alt accounts are smurfs: if you are legitimately playing unfamiliar heroes/roles at a lower level, thatās just you playing at your level for that hero. A GM tank main can easily be platinum at dps on his alternate account. Heās not throwing, heās just plat at dps while a GM at tank. Same thing if, letās say that tank main is GM at Reinhardt/Orisa/Winston, but has another account where heās diamond on Hog/Dva/Zarya. Heās not throwing.
Smurfing (because apparently most people on the forums donāt seem to know what it actually is) is where you have another account and you play at lower levels on heroes that you are not at that level with in order to stomp all over lower ranked players (example: a GM Widow has an account where they play Widow at a plat level in order to snipe plat players). In order to get to maintain that lower level, they would have to cheat. Smurfing IN THAT CONTEXT involves throwing, and the person can be banned for the throwing.
Also, for the love of God, can you stop whining about smurfs. They are not the reason you are in your rank. YOU are the reason youāre stuck in your rank!
No. In order to maintain that lower level they would have to throw. Throwing is āgame play sabotageā not ācheatingā.
You would be right. I should have edited more carefully.
exactly right with your definition, and I donāt think one person here has mentioned that smurfs are the reason they are being kept down. The problem is smurfs in general are complete douches they are rude often rank shame pretty much always say EZ etc . I donāt care about my rank infact I was hard stuck in gold from s3 to when Hammond came out and now im mid plat to almost diamond. I am just happy to maintain plat although I am trying to get to diamond, its incredibly frustrating to come up against a smurf as its just unfun and unfair, I also hate when I have a smurf on my team too for the same reason. infact I detest smurfs seriously hate them
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I agree, smurfs are annoying when encountered (just like most toxic people in general). I brought up the issue of people blaming smurfs for the reason theyāre in their rank because I feel thatās where a lot of anger towards them stems from (at least among a great many players).
I also just feel that while smurfs definitely exist and are jerks (at least the ones on the enemy team haha), theyāre not that prevalent. In order for an average plat player to have smurfs in a large portion of their ranked games, virtually every single GM and Masterās player would have to be smurfing in plat (largely due to the fact that GM and Masterās altogether account for only 4% of the OW ranked population, whereas plat accounts for greater than 25%).
I do fully understand, I hate it when I have to deal with a smurf on the enemy team. However, Iād say out of the 20 or so most recent matches Iāve played, I can only recall maybe one or two smurfs total.
Iām not sure, ask Jeff 
its weird for me its the other way around I havenāt had any all week then this weekend was like I was playing Gargamels revenge.
To visualise it this week I had a game where both teams had 1 point the last round on KOTH both teams went into 99% ot and we were fighting for the point for ages I mean never before have I seen it last this long it was awesome , tense and stressful we lost but its proably the most fun ive had in OW when the games balanced its just out of this world . With smurfs its never like that in my eyes anyway
Why would I ask Jeff?
āI have multiple accounts. Do I count as multiple persons now?ā
Because I donāt have the anwer to that question. Whether Jeff means 40 million accounts or 40 million unique players when he says that they have 40 million players.
Uneven matches arenāt even typically the result of smurfs. Sure, they can be, but you could have matches that are fully populated with gold border accounts and get the same feeling of āwow, that guy is carrying, heās too good, I canāt do anything.ā The game just lends itself to that, even if everyone is equally skilled.
you are right ofcourse, however if you get a smurf you are guaranteed that it will be uneven one way or anouther. Look at it this way the smurf player is deliberately causing this unevenness
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Sure, but Iād argue a lot of smurf accusations are false strictly because of this idea. Iāve been called a smurf WAY more times than I shouldāve been before I got to silver border. Meanwhile, here I am, still in the same rank they said I was smurfing in. The guys I typically play with get the same treatment. Playing well for one round on widow/mccree/tracer = smurfing to most people. I agree that smurfing is a problem, but I donāt think itās as pervasive as people suggest.
Ikr. Prolly a slip, I highly doubt they have 40m unique players and if they do, they most likely are not active all.
if in a tournament enviroment (like contenders) putting a owl player in would absolutely considered cheating but ladder isnt a sport.
OWL players go to and from Contenders all the time. They even have two-way contracts where they play in OWL and Contenders at the same time (just a limited amount of games). It isnāt cheating to be better than other players at the game.
if a already made contenders team puts a owl player in their game when he is already signed it would be cheating, i should have said open division though as it would be a better comparison.
I mean, itās against the rules to be on two teams at once, I suppose. If Sinatraa was dropped from OWL though (wonāt be, but just for example), he could jump on whatever Contenders team he wanted and play there. I donāt see how thatās cheating.