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@Asmodeus566
"Smurfs I see as a separate matter:
Is it a new alt account?
Is it Timmys or any other Pro/Streamers 500th rookie to Pred grind and this time just Akimbo weapons?
Is it some really good persons new gaming account because their original account got hacked and sold?
Is it just some cracked good new kid?
Is it I got banned for whatever reason but was good and had to make a new account?"
The only legitimate reason for a secondary that I can see on that list is, hacked, sold, starts new account. The rest of them are somewhere on the scumbag scale, and most are closer to the bottom than the top. I sympathize to some degree with an average player who has just grown tired of lop-sided matchmaking and is trying to do something about it, but the rest are a genuine pox. Streamers doing their 100th rookie to pred are the mainspring behind the cheating in this game. The kids see it on YouTube and twitch but when they try it themselves it's like running face first into a brick wall. So they look for ways to "fix" the wall so it isn't as hard or maybe not even there at all. I'm not trying to excuse the cheating, but the two are connected. If you advertise alcohol in prime time then the rate of teenage DWIs goes up. It's that simple.
I expected the number will be bad, but this is really bad. 100k banned monthly, with like... 200k players monthly on average just on Steam Charts? Wow And I was saying cheaters are 30% of player base. I was so naive :D