Re: New player Quiting!

@IShagnastyI While I disagree with Respawn's reasoning on this part, smurphing isn't against the rules, only griding lower lobbies on new accounts for easy kills and badges are. I disagree with that opinion because that's exactly what happens on new accounts reguardless of the player's intentions.

Also smurphing is usually defined as a higher leveled and/or higher ranked player being in a lower leveled and/or low ranked lobby via new accounts. If someone made two accounts and barely played the game, neither account is a smurph account. One would be the main, the other would be an alt. If one account was mainly played on and got progressed a lot through the game, then the second account would be considered a smurph account.

To me, smurphing is whenever you're in a match way below your skill level and you purposely sit there to grind kills. I'm not a fan of rank demotions because it allows diamond to pred players to derank down into bronze to gold lobbies, and they can just destroy the whole lobby and purposely lose matches to stay in those rankings. That lets them grind easy badges, kills, damage, etc. and that's basically smurphing, (by definition), even if its on the main account.

Looking up the definition of smurphing, I've found the following: "Smurfing refers to players who try to avoid coming up against opponents of similar MMRs by using new or low-ranked accounts. The idea is that the game cannot assess their skill level properly and they are placed into lobbies with less-skilled players who they are able to dominate."

To me, it doesn't matter if you're doing a rookie to pred solo grind on stream, making a new account to go through the game's leveling progression again, deranking yourself in ranked, or making the game think you're less skillful, your a smurph because you are getting yourself into lower lobbies. With the changes to rank that were introduced in season 13, I've seen a ton of diamond and master players in bronze to gold lobbies. They're not hard stuck bronze to gold players, they're just unable to handle higher ranked lobbies or refuse to play in higher skilled lobbies, (or so it would seem). We see the matchmaking as becoming more broken since season 13 and I believe this shift is part of the reason.

I hope that with the upcoming change to the matchmaking, it would shove these smurphs and higher ranked players into the same lobby, so the rest of us could actually start enjoying the game again.