Super easy solution to the smurf problem... EA doesn't have the guts to do it. It's called MFA and the rest of the industry adopted it years ago. Look at COD, if I want to play on my friends xbox I need to use a pin on my cell or one that I had previously setup. Doing that ties the EA account to your personal identity. That is how the world works now. I work in enterprise IT and most online SaaS apps and games alike now leverage multi-factor authentication (text, phone app, email a code, etc.). Once you put MFA in place no more multiple accounts for the same game and smurf issue is solved for good.
Yup there are ways. It's more effort and the chearters will always cheat. Fortnite does it too. Pretty sure more and more games are going to go to it. EA will likely figure it out at some point, hopefully not too late.
@WhoopFighter MFA = Multi Factor Authentication.
If you look at the stats, with 6 million plus cheaters being banned since 2019 and literally hundreds of thousands being banned every month, its no wonder the drop off of players has been so substantial. That's just the ones they actually catch and ban, there's plenty more they don't catch. Couple that with server issues, too much screwing around with legend abilities , weapons changes etc etc... people just get frustrated and will move on.
You can ban one cheater and in an instant, that same player has another account and is back in action. Same goes for smurfs . Its just a perpetual open season for it..
That is a huge problem for many games and a very big one for Apex .
