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- Gabrielmojo263 years agoSeasoned Ace@hayhor Have gotten in so many heated arguments over this exact idea on reddit.
I for one encourage it, and welcome it with open arms.
You want an easy "fix" to smurfs, this is a partial solution. - @hayhor I guess this not apply to all of the countries. 2 of my friends have prepaid sim cards and had no problem registering. So it depends on the carrier.
Another way they’re stopping smurfing is that you would need to play 50 games to before joining rank, and you can only use basic heroes. Not having access to all of the heroes is a big deal unlike in apex where you can live with just the free ones.
As for me, we had a blast playing for 12 hours today. I’m gonna cheese the remaining 20 battlepass levels and I’m done with this game until season 15. - @Gabrielmojo26 Not just smurfs. New cheater accounts too.
- Gabrielmojo263 years agoSeasoned Ace
@hayhorThe typical argument is, not everyone has a phone plan, but imo 90% of households nowadays has at least one family member with a phone plan, not sure how one would function in today's environment without one.
I'd increase the amount of accounts per phone number tho, 2 or 3 at the most, not sure why someone would need more than that.
- @Gabrielmojo26 I think the bigger issue is a phone plan vs prepaid. I know quite a few people who do prepaid because for them it is cheaper.
- Gabrielmojo263 years agoSeasoned Ace
@hayhorHaven't purchased a prepaid plan prior to owning a flip phone, which is 20+ years ago, so I wouldn't know how much they go for today, but if you're paying 20-30$ per prepaid plan (random guess), then I would assume you're still drastically cutting the smurfs, and cheaters, if that's the price you need to pay for a smurf account.
I use a plan for my phone in the Philippines and a prepaid plan in Japan. I can imagine other people moving from country to country as well having prepaid cards. I heard that a lot of people from the EU use prepaid phones?
There are other ways to counter smurfing. Even my bank doesn’t require a post paid plan then why is it a game have stricter rules? Getting to level 10 is too easy in apex to join rank. Smurfs are not a big problem in pubs.
Btw if Apex did this, I would not be mad. We need this type of roadmaps. Btw, cross progression in a game where it didn’t initially have one same with Fall Guys which was initially an indie game. The excuse of legal concerns is just simply that, an excuse.
- @Cheese9Man Smurfs are too a big issue in pubs. I'd argue just as much as ranked. Ranked gets the headlines due to all the solo to masters crap but playing pubs exclusively I see smurfs nonstop.
- Kyldenar3 years agoSeasoned Ace@Cheese9Man Do you have to use the blizzard launcher/installer for this, or is it on Steam?
Ugggghhhhh... BattleNet... my old enemy returns! {flashbacks to SC2 BS... }
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