Re: Smurfing is a Reportable Offense, So Why Are Streamers Allowed to do it?

That's why.

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@Nandor78 wrote:

Streamers help Respawn and EA to get great exposure and new players joining the game.

Why would they ban streamers with hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers?

It wouldn't make any sense from their point of view.

Ok let me correct you here... SOME streamers help Respawn and EA to get great exposure. When I see smurf content I get pissed and give big tumbs down to EA and Respawn for not decapitating him for messing up the game for people who might be willing to pay for something in the game. The proper streamers using their proper mains when streaming like for instance @TTV_ShulkN give proper and positive exposure. Streamers who smurf actually chase people away from the game, and yes that is the proper paying customers. 

Unfortunately I think the smurfing situation will only get worse as the game generally gets harder since the players get better as well. 

The requirement of a phone number to make an account is not 100% smurf proof but it will lessen the number of smurfs for sure. It’s so easy to make another account in consoles. 

Smurfing has excellent business side effect - Respawn can show their stakeholders that the game is growing in account number.

Just don't play ranked.  I quit for this reason.  It was ridiculous.

@E9ine_AC
Smurfing is literally creating an alt acount to play on. And that definition of smurfing makes no sense since everyone is mostly complaing bout new highly skilled accounts in lower lobies.

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@E9ine_AC wrote:
@Nandor78Hey there, Hideouts had made a clear definition of what that report feature is there for. He explains it is considered smurfing when you purposely tank your stats to stay in low end lobbies for easy kills and wins. This does not apply to owning an alt account which for most quickly moves out of easy lobbies.

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This is wrong, if youre taking 20-30 losses to get a botish lobby, first of all its not gona be bottom matchamking its going to be medium matchmaking, and one good game and youre out (and if you managed to get some sort of badge out of it, youre above your normal lobby). This is * your stats beyond recognition to get 1 good game.

The smurfs create accounts, and youre in protection mode for the first 10 levels atleast where you drop sbmm real fast even if you do a 40 bomb. Same you can cleanly just level to 10 and join ranked to circumvent sbmm and play bronze to gold and restart all over again, this is smurfing. In my experience you have special care under lvl 10 for matchmaking, and from 10-100 you are gradualy put into the full sbmm, after 100 you get stiffed every game outside if you have multiple character doing ranked from 0-gold every season then you got permanent lower matchmaking)

esport def of smurfing: https://dotesports.com/general/news/what-is-smurfing-in-gaming