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.
@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.
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.
@OldTreeCreeperYeah he says it right there, players that abuse the system and create new accounts to farm lower level lobbies.... that is EXACTLY what doing a Solo to masters challenge is, a loophole giving everyone permission to create smurf accounts.
@SILVERisSORRY I wasn't aware of this until recently and thought smurfing was simply having a second account.
Yes, smurfing is bannable.
(You can report them.)
But, normally, a player can't do that.
If you have enough skills, you can pass low level room very quickly, you know.
As other people said, some smurfing players were abusing system defects and they were banned.
I was absent from the last season.
So I started from Bronze Ranked.
I am not a good player but I have no prolem for passing there.
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