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Palette24carats
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago

Holding 3 accounts in Pred

Like we have been saying for years rank smurfs totally ruin the rank experience and it makes no sense to allow it in any way. 

And I didnt realize how much it didnt make any sense until I read Hiswattson's twitch stream title: Holding 3 accounts in Pred.

If Pred is something very meaningful and there are only 750 of them... how does it make sense to allow the same player to have 3 accounts in Pred?? It doesnt.

The same logic applies to the lower rank; it doesnt make any sense to have the same player rampage lower lobbies twice or three times or more...

Bronze to Master challenge already highlighted this problem but who cares about the peasants?

8 Replies

  • Well I understand the problem with this, though do note that this user has to maintain 3 accounts, which seems a tad difficult to do too.

    Currently this kind of behaviour does not go against of any rules at the moment, so even if they were to change the rules, a lot of change has to come to detect alternative accounts.

    Are we simply going to action all the alternative accounts or are we just cracking on preds with alts?

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @XHelperZ Knowing Respawn if they do something it will be only for pred. Much easier and cheaper to track 750 players than all the base.
  • reconzero's avatar
    reconzero
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @XHelperZ

    "Well I understand the problem with this, though do note that this user has to maintain 3 accounts"

    I'm no predator so I admit there's a lot about their existence that I don't understand: With that in mind, please explain why anyone "has" to maintain three accounts???
  • XHelperZ's avatar
    XHelperZ
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @reconzero 

    The position of a pred player is determined by the amount of RP other predators have.

    Next to the fact that these accounts have to climb all the way up there, the pred category has their own issue for players with multiple accounts.

    If predators gain a lot of RP, the others will be pushed down, meaning that these 3 accounts have to be played on every so often to maintain their ranking.

    Playing on one account too much can result in another being pushed down by other predators and the user himself.

    Though yeah they don't have to own multiple accounts, they might enjoy the challenge or think that the matchmaker works differently per account, everyone has their own reasoning, good or bad.

    Though if we want to check whether or not they're alts.. well, let's just say that would also be difficult.

  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @reconzeroNot that he has to ... but that he wants to. He maybe trolling Respawn maybe not, thing is he reached Pred #3 or 4... at that level you lose so many points as entry cost that you play to grind just a little which means he will assuredly keep this Pred account very high even if he doesnt play it for weeks.

    Then like all of them he had a 2nd account to play without his three stack pred maybe... or others less talented players when his team isnt around. So he did like all the others do.... bronze to masters challenge or something and then said hey I could make it a 2nd pred account.

    Then since the split is a very long 76 days... he started playing a 3rd account... then realized hey I have time to make this 3rd a pred account too.... gain the badge and everything.

    So yeah it totally makes sense. And shows how stupid this rank is. We struggle to grind and they get to grind 16 hours a day for 76 days... because they are the top of the top. Same applies to a certain degree to Masters they do the same... hey I could get 3 accounts to Master!!!

  • @Palette24carats That fact that Respawn nor EA wont say anything about this, only fuels the speculation that successful streamer might get the "special treatment" in favor of good marketing results for the company.
  • @Palette24carats just give up, EA does not care, Respawn does not care, the devs do not care, I mean they have people in the forums trying to talk down the problems with the game rather than taking the concerns to the devs to be remedied. its free to play but a buttload of money if you want to win or buy anything in the game. the servers are still garbage hence the horrible SBMM and TTK for most players unless you are on a god PC. the fact that they allow "pros" to blatantly hold smurf accounts over and over every season should tell you enough.
  • Palette24carats's avatar
    Palette24carats
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    How about 13 times doing the bronze to master for all who dont have many friends to play with??

    Of course that is still ok with Respawn

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