Is smurfing bannable?
I am interested if smurfing is bannable since in other games like Lol it is. I was thinking about helping a friend by making a smurf so i can play with him in ranked since my accout is a much higer r...
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Smurfing should never be banned because there's nothing technically illegal. It should be prevented and avoided, of course.
@DoYaSeeMe It doesn't matter if it's "illegal." It ruins the game experience for tens of thousands of players and causes the majority of beginners to just give the game up. Apex has half of the players of PUBG and dramatically less than Fortnite; those are basically its two competitors. Apex needs all of the players it can get if it's going to stay alive.
- @StelioRokos There are many things that ruin the gameplay experience, some of them are way worse than smurfing. If every bad behavior would be banned, there would be very few players left. Also, a ban is an official / legal action of prohibiting, so it 's applied only when official / legal rules are explicitly violated. I don't see any rule against making new accounts and I don't think it should be prohibited to do so, as there are a lot of legit reasons for it (accounts being stolen, switching platforms, changing rig and location / isp, allowing friends / other family members to play on your device, etc.).
a smurf is a person making a new acount spesifically to circumvent the matchmaking to prey on low levels and newbies. That is the very definition, and hence reportable, its even got its own little report segment on the PC version.
Making a new account for other reasons like changing platform, or otherwise legit reason, maybe even having two characters, one to play ranked solo and one to play ranked with the team for instance is legit in my eyes and not smurfing, but those characters will both be fairly high level. But those characters will not be deleted or abandoned and new ones created everytime you need fresh fooder. The hardest smurfs recreates several times a day to make sure they can keep as little resistance as possible. This is the shait that ruins the game, and yes in a huge way and way worse, idd take a toxinc mofo any day instead of a smurf, i can just mute him.
- @Zkepz Smurfs are definitely way worse than the hackers I come across.
Smurfs lead to dedicated players getting frustrated to the point of leaving the game entirely which ultimately kills any good online pvp game.
- @DoYaSeeMe None of the reasons you listed are why people Smurf.
People smurf to intentionally get beginner or lower-skilled players to dominate them. They intentionally circumvent any sort of matchmaking system that may exist in order to feel good about stomping beginner players. This causes literally millions of would-be players to just leave the game because it makes the game completely inaccessible to anyone who isn't already amazing at FPS games.
Every other PvP game takes smurfing seriously. How can you defend it?
@StelioRokos you do realize apex is one of the top games worldwide right? Theres over 100million worldwide. PUBG had a max of 3.24 million. Do your facts this game is going nowhere for a long time. An as much as I hate it fortnite will probably never get topped it's too kid friendly.
