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Ranter58's avatar
Ranter58
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago

Smurf Accounts

I play this to keep my mind active as I am an older gamer.  I am sick of coming up against high ranked people because they have created smurf accounts and just slaughtering me

Why not 1 account per game and match us to our capability.  Some Master today once again diamonds all with me at my level how do i compete with that, there doesn't seem to be a point playing if someone can just drop back into day 1.  2 years trying to get better for nothing.  

18 Replies

  • E9ine_AC's avatar
    E9ine_AC
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @Hyuugajay0515 Yea they most certainly need to counter smurfs. A lot these people just boost their friends or wanna bully lobbies creating horrible game experience for majority of players. Like you say its very suspect on is this new player cheating or is this new player smurfing? The game is in a quite toxic state because of these.

    A lot my friends actually will rage quit for the day just because they are sick of being killed by level 50 or below gods. I get being good being great being amazing at this game. But some these 50 or below are literal gods when aiming then bots when looting.
  • It's hard to control this though. You can't ban people just because they are good. The only way to change this is to have the smurfs stop. But it's not like those tryhards are going to stop anytime soon ☹️ But I wholeheartedly agree with you.

  • JonasDumac's avatar
    JonasDumac
    4 years ago

    Smurf is not the most important problem with the matchmaking. Its impossible to play the game if every match you get your mates are a pair of noobs who cant even do a kill without gettin teared.

    im not a predator i cannot carry 2 completely noob and deaf guys.

  • can we please all set up  Reddit page and just do a mass strike till the fix or remove sbmm???? please....

  • C0nfusias
     

    Smuring is cheating, period. All have failed to change my mind otherwise.
    Smurfing Is cheating.. Change my mind (thread) 
    Smurfing is a violation of the TOS as is made clear due to the introduction of the report function. However since it has been more than a year since smurfing started to become rampant, it is also clear that EA/Respawn have no genuine concern for it. The TOS is in essence, an agreement between the developer and the user. I agree not to cheat and they agree to not allow cheaters. Based on that agreement I have, in good faith, paid money toward services intended to enhance the game's aesthetics. I believe that EA/Respawn has violated that agreement by ignoring smurfing. I believe users would be well within their right to explore charge-back proceedings.

    Change my mind...

  • nebwise's avatar
    nebwise
    4 years ago
    @Rocko_CCTV Yeah. I've been matched into Diamond+ lounges every pubs game this season. I can keep up with that, and don't mind the slight dip in my K/D. The problem is that my regular teammates can't, and have started to refuse to play with me.

    Respawn seriously need to revisit the game balance as a whole, not just matchmaking. The loot pool has become mind-numbingly thin, and the current matchmaking system (Arenas and BR) is encouraging long-standing teams to break up.

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