Re: Smurfing Is cheating..
@C0nfusias It's fun when you are forced to smurf in Silver/Bronze because Respawn keeps giving you tier demotion. Perfect ranked system, am I right?
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I'm just inside Plat and my regular squad-mates are both Gold 1. We were trying to get them both into Plat yesterday (2021/03/15) and ran into a level 58 Plat 1 twice, and a level 50 diamond 1 player. If they would just crack down on smurfing in ranked I'd stop complaining. Something has to give. If we isolate the debate to ranked only, smurfing circumvents SBMM, and as such, can only be considered cheating, which in turn becomes a violation of the TOS. I'm losing my patients. The developer Ignoring it for this long is becoming akin to acceptance.
- @C0nfusias I don't know what Respawn can do. Other games have smurfs as well. Can you name a game where they had a solution for this?
- @Cheese9Man @C0nfusias If someone drops 4k in Plat lobbies, send him straight to Pred lobbies(just an example) . Problem solved. If I remember correctly, Riot does this in Valorant.
Here is a piece from a Valorant blog:-
'Smurfing always sucks, especially when you have rank on the line. While it’s hard to stop smurfing entirely in a free-to-play game, we are taking action to combat it. Right now we have a behind-the-scenes system for Unrated as well as one that applies to Iron through Diamond ranked players. The latter tracks an individual’s performance and notices when a player makes a highly disproportionate impact in a game. We then quickly boost them to harder matches and higher ranks in Competitive. '
