I support your concerns 100%, but i think you answered the question yourself.
There are even players that sell smurf accounts only, for over 1000 euros each.
They post screenshots of their accounts and legends, with their names clearly visible.
But do they get banned?
Streamers help Respawn and EA to get great exposure and new players joining the game.
Why would they ban streamers with hundreds of thousands or millions of subscribers?
It wouldn't make any sense from their point of view.
Now, what they SHOULD DO, is to just STFU about working hard to ban smurfs bla bla bla, because they are clearly and simply NOT.
That's why.
Unfortunately I think the smurfing situation will only get worse as the game generally gets harder since the players get better as well.
The requirement of a phone number to make an account is not 100% smurf proof but it will lessen the number of smurfs for sure. It’s so easy to make another account in consoles.
Smurfing has excellent business side effect - Respawn can show their stakeholders that the game is growing in account number.
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