Smurf accounts are out of control.
Dozens in every match now because the high ranks don’t want to play against people of equal skill... sigh, Why do so many games have to try and cheat the system to get an edge? just start suspendin...
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What's the edge though ? sooner or later those players are going to have to play people in a higher skill level.
It's really not cheating. Smurf accounts have been around since the dawn of gaming. There is no exploit there is really no advantage it's not like the person is using a Glitch in the game or Aim bot or game genie to preform kills. Unlike the players that use a modded controller now that is cheating.
There could be tons of reasons why people have smurf accounts
- Streamers
- one with friends and another one solo
- want to see how much better you got compared to last season's
- etc.
I have a secondary account so I guess I'm considered as smurfing and should be banned too ?
Just let them be, If they're not cheating then whats the big deal.
"Smurf accounts have been around since the dawn of gaming. "
Incorrect.
We will only discuss the period after gaming went online as the real dawn of gaming were all isolated machines.
Online gaming in it's early days had ladder and tourney systems to determine rank/skill
It was not until somewhere around 2004ish where MLG started pushing what was the predecessor stats based rankings you have today.
Smurfing was not an issue till that system was put into play.
Before that people used alias accounts but that was for anonymity on public servers....not really to game some ranksystem that didn't exist yet.
