This game is a serious joke

I’ve played a few years ago and quit because of the rising smurf problem but recently played a few ranked games and holy, this game just got incredibly worse.

I’ve counted the 15 games I had and in every single one of them I’ve encountered smurfs. Either in my team or in the opponents team. Everyone below level 60, playing genji, doomfist or widow. To be sure, I actually asked them what their actual rank is. Everyone was at least 1 or 2 leagues higher with their main accounts.

Every single game those guys decided which of the team would be the winner. Me as a maintank just can’t have that much of an impact to counter this.

I’m extremely frustrated, because it only takes 1 or 2 in a 12 player match to ruin our game experience completely. Well if there was 1 game out of 15, I wouldn’t mind that much, but every single game?

It’s just a smurfing lottery, nothing else.

I’m usually having goldmedals during my matches, not wasting my ults, yet we lose the fights. Even as a tank with rather low dmg or elims.
My thought is, that when you should actually rise, the game puts you with weaker teammates and the opponents get at least 1 good smurf to balance this out.

This game matchmaking is completely broken.

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The frustration is incredibly understandable, but due to Role-Que and alot of the balance changes, this game has become the most team-dependent it’s ever been, ontop of “Play meta or lose” usually.

This is insanely tilting and results in people feeling helpless, so they make smurfs just so they can feel good about themselves.

Does this excuse smurfing? Ofcoarse not. But, the problem lies much deeper than just ego-stroking. The game is literally just not fun right now for an individual player who doesnt want to hard-comm, play the meta, and work with their team 24/7 :woman_shrugging: the original game was literally the complete opposite of this… and that’s what most people bought the game for.

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This game should be buyable only for fullprice. But hey, blizzard likes money. The normal consumer only buys it once and maybe 5% of the others who like to smurf buy it more than once. I’ve encountered people saying that they bought this games more than 10 times to sell accounts. Yet they didn’t get bans. It’s such a tragedy

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Oh definitely, every time theres a sale theres a mass smurf-fest that comes after it.

I remember a few months ago when the game was on sale for 5$… after that was the most smurfs I’ve ever seen on PC

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“Serious joke” is quite the oxymoron

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That is correct. In fact Blizzard has encouraged smurfing by giving out free accounts a lot

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That doesn’t mean they are smurfs lol

Have you read my comment? I’ve literally asked them.

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Smurfing is rampant on PS4. They dont have to buy a new game, just make a new ps4 account. I wish they would do something because comp is filled with smurfs who want to feel good about themselves by crushing low elo players. They aren’t even quiet about it, they brag in coms about it.

I’m not sure what they could do, but something needs to be done because its miserable climbing with these people.

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so you’ve asked every single “smurf” and they all replied yes?

Just wait for the smurf defense squad to show up and explain how it isn’t smurfing to have twenty accounts which all happen to be placed several ranks below their main.

I 100% agree with you but it’s basically pointless to talk about it here because half of the people on this forum smurf.

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It’s impossible to escape the smurfing problem, they’re everywhere in quickplay too.

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Blizzard should NOT do fps’s they can barely balance their other games and the rate at which they release content, in all their games, is abysmal

I think the smurf problem is mostly due to people being bored. There is nothing new or fun to do anymore, so some people just say F it and make new accounts to troll people with.

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If there’s nothing fun to do anymore, then what is stopping these people from going to another game? You’re telling me no other interesting games showed up since Overwatch’s release? I really doubt that.

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There is, but they don’t want to play other games.

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i can accep the smurfs, i have a lot more problems with this game when the game put all smurfs on one team and on the other team dont have any smurf…

I was about to say the same thing too. There is an obvious pattern there: most smurfs will play Widow, Doom, Genji or Tracer. Those are heroes whom you have to put in so much effort but dont get enough in return, the only way to spread their wings is to play in an environment which favors more invidual impact.

If i were a long ranked Hitscan specialist and had to wait 15, 20 minutes for a match, just to have 2 Shields shove on my face all game, i would be very tempted to try to go down to elos where people happily run Hog and Hammond every match.

I know forum doesnt condon smurfing, but personally i don’t care. If the game’s objective is to win by any mean/cheese/imbalance necessary with disregard to real efforts, then smurfing is also a pseudo legit way to play. Of course it’s just my opinion, abeit a bit too extreme.

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By that logic cheating is also a legit way to play.

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Like i said, it’s just my opinion. In my eyes, playing below your elos to get thing done is just the same as abusing OG Brig, or double barriers, or Rein+Zarya to run over Hog+Ball enemy’s comp in your typical ranks.

Is it fair? Absolutely not, but it’s the same unfairness in both instances.