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.
@E9ine_AC wrote:
@Nandor78Hey there, Hideouts had made a clear definition of what that report feature is there for. He explains it is considered smurfing when you purposely tank your stats to stay in low end lobbies for easy kills and wins. This does not apply to owning an alt account which for most quickly moves out of easy lobbies.
This is wrong, if youre taking 20-30 losses to get a botish lobby, first of all its not gona be bottom matchamking its going to be medium matchmaking, and one good game and youre out (and if you managed to get some sort of badge out of it, youre above your normal lobby). This is * your stats beyond recognition to get 1 good game.
The smurfs create accounts, and youre in protection mode for the first 10 levels atleast where you drop sbmm real fast even if you do a 40 bomb. Same you can cleanly just level to 10 and join ranked to circumvent sbmm and play bronze to gold and restart all over again, this is smurfing. In my experience you have special care under lvl 10 for matchmaking, and from 10-100 you are gradualy put into the full sbmm, after 100 you get stiffed every game outside if you have multiple character doing ranked from 0-gold every season then you got permanent lower matchmaking)
esport def of smurfing: https://dotesports.com/general/news/what-is-smurfing-in-gaming
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