Apex Legends Smurfing and Matchmaking

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@Axs5626Sxa5001 wrote:
@ZkepzYou do agree with this right— that people in my skill bracket deserve to have an extra difficult time so that lower skilled players can enjoy themselves?

So what reward should be put in place to make it worth a player’s time to improve and such? Any words of advice for me, as I go on my 2nd week of daily games with no wins?

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"Right"??  You worked your way up to Master, you're fighting against your (more or less) equals.....no one ever said it was easy at the top....

THIS tho.....an obvious master/Predator who for whatever reason decided to smurf, absolutely MOWING down players that are far below him.....

.....where's MY reward making it worth MY time and effort to try and get better?

@DrenMadre @RC_Ocean this is the official position on smufs. One Smurf good, two smurfs bad 😃

I wonder if Conor means concurrent Smurf accounts for all legends, as against a new Smurf account each season, to do the rank solo to masters for all legends?

@DrenMadre to be fair master is not top of the food chain, some of the preds are quite a force to be reckoned with, and this is probably one of @Axs5626Sxa5001 issues, and would like to be able to get away from this at times, and he is looking for an incentive to stay in that bracket.

And @Axs5626Sxa5001 , i would say masters is 1st Division but not elite division. You have the option to go play ALGS, and get payed if you find a team and can qualify, you have the skills to be able to become an influencer, in general idd say you have a sweaty game day but at the same time you have better crew with you, idd say you are sweating the same way as everyone else. Still if you care about the trail you got that, but I do think managing to get to master and pred should give even more then just the trail, not money that's never gonna happen but unique skins pr season that only those select few get to float around, and esport wise more then ALGS should be there, they should do like Fortnite where algs is the big one and they have several comps for different ranks  where price could be skins for diamond ups every other week or so and comps with small cash prizes master up every other week or so. I think that would be awesome and it would also give a new dimension to content creation for the people who do that aswell, this would also create a platform to recruit for algs. And being a part of algs would make you a pro so you cannot participate in said armature comps.

I think this would in general give the masses even a better reason to grind for diamond up and get that extra flavor to ranked in general  pubs is pubs it's a place where it can be sweaty but not the same kind of sweaty but to be honest if the sbmm is removed there would be nowhere for people to go to get an easier game outside of masters and preds. In general I don't think this would be good for the health of the game.

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@lightning_5o wrote:
@ZkepzSee if something like a unique master or pred skin for a character of your choice was implemented I’d still be irritated by SBMM but maybe a little bit less. My reward for being pred is a dive trail, badge, and a pub experience that makes it where I can’t play with friends or family and playing solo means I have to carry 2 below average players against 3 stack master and preds

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This is why having an alt is legal, I have this for my daughter, my alt is only allowed to pick up p2020 and give all the cool loot to my daughter, given those limitations I naturally stay in her segment.... I also make sure I do not make them kills. That way I can play with her, and if I had a different buddy who was in between I would make one more alt and try stay within his skillrange to have fun. Its legal too. Sadly I cant gloat my skins and everything so I would rather they make an alt possibility in game that helps you keep within ToS and you can use your skins across the alts so you can have fun with your buds without going in full sweatmode and have them complaining about dying before they can land.

@lightning_5o just try play only movement once in the first lobbies, I was able to dodge a full team of 3 without cover in the first lobbies and get away... you quickly see why the sbmm is in place. I would feel quite queezy going full sweat in those lobbies - and then just think back and realize I was there at some point in time might be a good benchmark 🙂

@PulvertomtenCome on man, please read what’s being written. In literally all of my SBMM posts I have been open about new players absolutely being protected. There 100% should be a lengthy safe space for players to learn and enjoy the game. But after a certain point, players should compete in a public setting that exposes people to variety.

After that, if players really want a place to ensure they are exclusively playing as close to their doppelgänger as possible, that place should be the ranked mode (of any game).