If you take the time to read the posts of people who are anti Blizzard lately, who strongly defend smurfs and condemn the mobile phone addition, THEN check the user activity on other topics you can make the links to people who are Smurfs themselves / playing in low ELO in multiple accounts while having a GM account.
The disruption caused seems to be now turned back and they are struggling to hide it.
If you are a gold ranked player in Overwatch you should NEVER know what it is like to play at bronze level. Ever.
A gold rank player intentionally dropping down to play at Bronze is bad.
If you are at Platinum rank, dropping down to bronze is even worse!
LastlyâŚif you are ranked diamond and above and know what the gameplay is like at bronze then { insert something unfun }
Iâve been bronze and Iâve been diamond without throwing or smurfing. The matchmaking was garbage.
In my experience bronze is the hardest rank to play in as a support main as generally nobody seems to know what theyâre doing, you get no peel and youâre often expected to carry to win.
Around 2.5 was the easiest for me as the players started to group up, use ults together actually think about their positioning a little for heals rather than run away from their supports while screaming they have no healing.
High plat into diamond is where I started to struggle as the enemy DPS would start to focus the supports more and Iâd lose most 1v1s. I needed to start thinking more about my positioning so that my team could better peel for me.
High plat I would say my skill level is. But Iâve been from there to silver/bronze border and back again multiple times over the years. You donât have to be a smurf to know what playing in 5 elos is like.
I think having in for the entire game would help with people levelling and selling accounts no? Pretty sure if you remove a number from an account you canât then just use it on another account straight away. So account sellers would need a phone number for every account they sell.
Itâs going to be really interesting to see what the OW2 comp experience is like. For the first few weeks at least it would be almost exclusively existing OW players on their mains. No smurfs and no throwers.
Completely agree, the game actually becomes much easier and more enjoyable once you reach a rank where your team actually starts playing like a team. People talk trash about plats a lot but in my opinion itâs the best rank to play in. Not as toxic and chaotic as gold and not as sweaty as diamond.
I started in Bronze, and am in Plat. I think I can remember the massive amounts of smurfing which happened in bronze.
Anyway, I HAVE noticed the amount of smurfs constantly saying âno it wonât make any differenceâ somewhat desperately, and saying they should remove the horrible system, because they have empathy for their fellow players (which if they did, they wouldnât be smurfingâŚ)
you canât put everyone you donât like into a box to make them easier to disagree with. how are the genuine complaints of âblizzard doesnât allow or trust my cellphone providerâ matching up with you believing theyâre all secretly smurfs or something?
Not sure if youâre aware of this or not⌠but you can remove the SMS phone number from one account and register it onto another. Alt accounts and smurfing are still going to be a thing until Blizzard does something else lol
Whether it is or not doesnât make a difference to me, Iâm just trying to inform people that the sky hasnât fallen yet, and the only thing thatâs changed is Blizzardâs authentication has a thing against Cricket wireless users.
Youâre talking as if you donât have alt accounts. My main account was actually banned from the forums for 1,000 years lol. Thatâs what Blizz does. They donât outright ban you indefinitely, they think theyâre comedians and ban you for 1,000 years, but I digress.
Every one of my accounts is in Bronze, so no, it doesnât affect me. But thatâs another matter entirely. I was trying to think outside of the box with workarounds like possibly using virtual smart phone software. After testing it, BlueStacks doesnât work. But what DOES work, for now at least, is 1 usable phone number that can be attached and removed from any account that you own, effectively enabling use of all of your alt accounts. Iâm just a consumer advocate. If you bought an account, you paid good money for it, itâs yours. You should be able to use it if you want to.
^ This. I used to be a diamond player also and maintained plat/diamond for quite a few seasons and then the mmr/sr kept getting worse and worse especially as a solo queuer and getting stuck on teams with leavers a lot more times than not, being stuck with bad players or those carried, etc. to where each season from when Role Queue went live I would get 15+ losing streaks very often to where a loss I would lose around 5 SR then a win would get me 35+.
They have not updated their mmr/sr system at all and so far is as bad as ever and picks up exactly where OW 1 left off as far as comp mode.
Basically I mean they havenât changed anything for the better with their horrible comp system. It is by far the worst fps one out there. And as you can see off the bat, each season will just keep getting worse and worse just like OW 1.
