Look I will start off with saying I’m only a silver level player, I’m not awesome, but I used to love playing this game, now smurfs are ruining it for me.
I am wondering if anyone else is having the bad time of 9 out of 10 games now I end up going against smurfs and they just wipe the floor with us.
The smurfs are causing the matching system to get thrown all out of whack and pretty much make it to where new players and even veteran players like myself don’t even want to play anymore, it just not enjoyable to always get beat down with no chance of winning.
I don’t see blizzard doing anything about the smurfs, but how many people have already quit because of smurfs. I know Blizzard doesn’t care because they already got their money… but really those players could be buying loot boxes and encouraging friends to come play… its just heart breaking that I used to love this game and its now just become to where I don’t want to play anymore due to smurfs.
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Yes smurfs ruin the game
They completely destroy the matchmaking integrity by playing in games outside their actual ranks, which gives their team an advantage (which is literally the definition of cheating btw, as stated in the game itself)
They completely bypass the report and punishment systems in place. Besides it doesnt matter what you say or do in game, if you have a smurf you will be able to keep playing and ruining games even if one of your accounts gets banned. The amount of people who throw and then when they get reported by the whole team be like ‘i dont care this is my smurf’
Smurf accounts reduce a players effort and incentive to win when playing competitively. If you have multiple accounts why does it matter if you lose a game, its 1 game on 1 account, thats not even your main. Theres no incentive to try and win compared to if you only play on 1 account where the wins and losses actually mean more
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Yes.
With that being said I don’t believe the smurf issue is near as big as this forum community leads on and in most cases it’s just a simple scenario of being outplayed.
Yes, BUT.
No online game company can avoid it for now.
Because, game companies have no way to make a link between accounts.
Players can order a new visa card, can buy a physical copy of the game, can transfer game accounts, can use VPN, can use cloud based hardware,…
Some says, online official identity could solve that issue.
Real question is :
Would you accept all your forum posts to be linked with your physical address and identity ?