Hardware ban, phone authentication, dota 2's "overwatch" system.
If you want to do the war to something, do that.
If you like money of cheaters, smurfs, exploiter, do that.
You can't do both (or at least you should not).
Smurfs are newly created accounts on which a high ranked player plays, correct?
This method conceals their actual MMR and other information about the player, meaning it's expected that you can get matched against a smurf.
It would be a bug if an actual high ranked player would be placed against you, so if you're saying that you get high ranked players to play against then it's a bug since certain players on the ladder should not be matched with those much higher than them.
Though if it actually is a new account, then there is nothing to really do about it from this perspective since the system works as intended.
If you want to suggest a way to prevent smurfs from getting into your game, feel free to post feedback or go start a discussion in one of the other forums regarding Apex Legends.
Feedback and suggestions are always appreciated and I'm sure others will stand behind it since smurfs do plague the game quite a lot.
Hardware ban, phone authentication, dota 2's "overwatch" system.
If you want to do the war to something, do that.
If you like money of cheaters, smurfs, exploiter, do that.
You can't do both (or at least you should not).
@Vulpes37I actually would assume that smurff accounts do not benefit the company from the monetary perspective - it would be damn stupid to have a tricked-out account where a person has bought everything he/she can and then create another account just to do the same thing all over again.
Three reasons I have heard so far the most about smurffing:
1) people didn't get heirloom(s) on their main account, so they want to get them on smurff
2) people reached X level (usually talks are about Diamond/Master), got sick of hackers in these lobbies and set teams => created a smuff to play on lower levels
3) helping a friend (or selling account boost) on lower level - e.g. now you can play any level vs any till Platinum or was it Diamond. So this is less common now, yet still people do team up to boost some less skilled players be it whatever reason.
Neither of these actually is bannable, just it is what it is...
All those are not legit since you are avoiding matchmaking and you are reportable for that.
Rules are rules, is not fair, it's antisportive conduct, is against the rules. They don't ban cause they are greedy, but they (ea and all other brands) ruin our time.
My understanding is smurfing is classed as cheating yet ea refuse to do anything about it even though the option to report is available.
im guessing this was the player trying to say that if the developers are going to let this go unchecked then they are bugged/bugging i can just imagine people asking these question at game events if apex is even courageous enough to show up.
