How come streamers are allowed to make smurfs
How come streamers can make Smurf accounts but the majority of the community will most likely get banned if they do so? I see a report option for “Smurf account” so I’m certain the cry babies on this...
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@reerex As cheese said, a smurf in apex is not simply a new account. It's one that does certain things to exploit lobbies.
Despite what's been said by Respawn over the last year, I have yet to ever hear of a player being banned specifically for smurfing. Players have been banned for making another account to play on after their main account is banned (e.g. Taxi2G). An admittedly cursory google search produced no direct evidence of smurfing bans. By contrast, iiTzTimmy got banned pretty quickly for smurfing for content in Valorant. I believe that Hideouts has stated that they do not consider the making of a new account in order to create "unranked to Masters/Pred" content to fit their definition of smurfing (I think some sort of caveat was given of "too frequently," or similar.) Rather, as I read it, they only consider smurfing to mean deliberately throwing games in order to drop an account's MMR/rank in order to play in easy lobbies.
Please do correct me on this if I am in error.
This is the current position on smurfing afaik from apex hideouts.
"So does this mean I can get banned for doing the “Solo to masters in all legend”?
" No. This is intended for players that abuse the system and create new accounts consistently to farm lower level lobbies. Having one smurf to do a grind like that will not get you banned"
https://mobile.twitter.com/rspn_hideouts/status/1390020385706364929
The question put to Conor was about a ranked challenge. He replied
"create new accounts consistently to farm lower level lobbies."
To me, it seems to be very specifically about banning farming pub or farming ranked smurfs, who are specifically and persistently wipeing out lower level lobbies for whatever reason. Not ranked challenge smurfs who are passing through.- @OldTreeCreeper He also said smurfs that purposely throw games after having a good game so they stay in lower tier lobbies. It is a combination of MM and new accounts.
- @hayhor
"He also said smurfs that purposely throw games after having a good game so they stay in lower tier lobbies."
How on earth could anyone prove this? Isn't it pretty routinely the nature of this game that a completely normal, non-smufing player has a really good game and then it's followed immediately by several drubbings? I guess that makes me a "game thrower!" Quick, somebody ban me!
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