To Help Identify Smurfs
A suggestion to help identify smurf accounts. Do not allow players to hide their rightful level. Keep the three spots for players to showcase their badges but the level the player is at should NOT ...
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@NickBeam27
There are many ways for the developer to spot a smurf, and many ways for them to deal with the problem without having to resort to reporting or bans. They don't do any of it because platforms and developers have a vested interest in players creating multiple accounts. The process allows them to report inflated user numbers to corporate overlords and shareholders.
If the developers were really on their game they would make a dramatic reduction in the number of matches required to identify an accurate mmr. There were developers 15 years ago who claimed they could get an accurate mmr in as few as four matches. Now imagine a masters level player setting up a smurf account in the current environment and getting probably hundreds of easy matches before being placed appropriately... suddenly that kid's secondary gets him only a handful of easy games? The incentive to smurf disappears overnight. But why would any developer bother to do that when secondaries make it look as if their game has so many more players than it actually does?
There are many ways for the developer to spot a smurf, and many ways for them to deal with the problem without having to resort to reporting or bans. They don't do any of it because platforms and developers have a vested interest in players creating multiple accounts. The process allows them to report inflated user numbers to corporate overlords and shareholders.
If the developers were really on their game they would make a dramatic reduction in the number of matches required to identify an accurate mmr. There were developers 15 years ago who claimed they could get an accurate mmr in as few as four matches. Now imagine a masters level player setting up a smurf account in the current environment and getting probably hundreds of easy matches before being placed appropriately... suddenly that kid's secondary gets him only a handful of easy games? The incentive to smurf disappears overnight. But why would any developer bother to do that when secondaries make it look as if their game has so many more players than it actually does?
Smurf is a rough term to get used to with apex. It is hard to tell who truly is a smurf. In respawns eyes, a smurf is someone who purposely tanks their stats to be placed in lower-end lobbies to stomp on new players.
So if someone is level 43 as an example and in plat/diamond lobbies and kills you this is no smurf. This would be labeled as someone's alt. You are allowed to have alt accounts. If someone dies to a 43 in their ranked lobbies, you did not die to someone keeping themselves at a lower rank to stomp players. You died to someone who is of that skill level and in the proper spot until they can move on to the next ranks.
Now if someone makes a new alt account drops 20 bomb 4k then places them in higher-end lobbies they can not do that in and they go create a new account to do it again that is what is labeled a smurf. While I can understand I will most likely catch a lot of negative outcomes with this statement or thought process on it I am just writing what it was a respawn dev said when they spoke at the matter replying to a player asking what the report option was for.
Smurfs in other games seem to be looked at much differently than here in apex. A smurf over there is anyone who is good and makes a new account to smash people. Over here it's someone who does it over and over to farm low-level or new players.
TRYING TO SUGAR COAT SMURING BY CALLING IT AND ULT IS THE SAME THIS YUOU ARE THE SAME PERSON PLAYING ON THE SAME PC WITH A DIFFRENT ACCOUNT THAT IS WAHT A SMURF IS NO ONE CREATES ULTS WITH GOOD INTENCTIONS THAT WHY YOUY ARE JUST RYING TO SUGAR COAT IT
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