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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@flatt1e Of course you can! Apex has unique movement - it has what's made this game so popular. It is ridiculously easy in this game particularly, to see if someone has master its movements and haven't just started recently playing Apex.
Smurfing should never be banned because there's nothing technically illegal. It should be prevented and avoided, of course.
@DoYaSeeMe wrote:Smurfing should never be banned because there's nothing technically illegal. It should be prevented and avoided, of course.
Smurfing been ruining games and made people shun the game since sbmm was made, games died from it so yes it should be bannable, not only the smurf account but the main account should get a smack. But I think the smurf term should be defined much better because not all smurfing is bad, the smurfing that pray on "the weak" should be smacked hard. I know its hard to differ but in general statistics wise it should be extremely easy to track. A hwid repeating account creation and has myriads of smurf accounts made specifically to ruin ranked low level or exploit the grace period/games you get in the start. I seen plenty of people do this, and I seen people making content making new accounts all the time. This is what is hurting the game and should be handled as its turning new players away from the game and the steady recruitment slows down fast and people give up before they actually can progress and get into the game properly.
- @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.
@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.
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