When is the next banwave to enjoy your game again for a few hours?
50% of all champions are new accounts..mhh....
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@AllSquadsOn1Spot I don't think they can ban smurfs just because it's a new account doing well... That would be kind of ridiculous. What if someone played on a different system such as PS4 and then got an Xbox? They would have to create a new account and they would destroy the people they're up against.
Similar to my return to PC. My PC stats were garbage back on release day so I stayed on PS4. I recently returned to PC and I'm dropping people all over the server.
Everyone is ready for bans to happen and I just don't understand it. If someone is using legitimate cheats (hacks) to ruin the game for others then banning is good for the community. But banning people who are just playing the game legitimately is bad for business. If enough people get banned queue times increase and the higher the queue times the more likely impatient players will leave to play a different game. Banning people for no real reason will kill the game. Take a look at Fallout 76. Small player base and even those that do play have caught bans. It's widely known as a flop and a game where its player base is consistently beaten down with bans.
Respawn and Apex are heading down a similar path.
Similar to my return to PC. My PC stats were garbage back on release day so I stayed on PS4. I recently returned to PC and I'm dropping people all over the server.
Everyone is ready for bans to happen and I just don't understand it. If someone is using legitimate cheats (hacks) to ruin the game for others then banning is good for the community. But banning people who are just playing the game legitimately is bad for business. If enough people get banned queue times increase and the higher the queue times the more likely impatient players will leave to play a different game. Banning people for no real reason will kill the game. Take a look at Fallout 76. Small player base and even those that do play have caught bans. It's widely known as a flop and a game where its player base is consistently beaten down with bans.
Respawn and Apex are heading down a similar path.
@GCC_LeoThere is a difference between smurfing accounts to get around SBMM and having two separate accounts for different platforms.
Fairly confident they can look at the Xbox and see that one xbox has 10+ accounts all with similar Stats. Another way that's easy to tell, lots of players are creating pre-made squads and abusing the queue timer to get into lower skill lobbies. Basically they have one smurf account, they start the queue timer then invite their predator buddies. I just ran across a squad doing that, 1 was a smurf account the other team mates had 7,000 kill trackers/badges. They are even doing it in ranked, I have not had a single ranked match yet that did not have Diamond and Predator dive trails coming out of the drop ship. When I end up getting killed by them I watch for a minute.. They have a Platinum buddy who got them into the platinum lobby. Yes they are predator, it shows the Predator icon for their RP totals..
It's really pathetic because it makes it impossible to find an area that's competitive.. But hey games are always full of morons who like it easy and like to ruin it for everyone else. It's really no different then running cheats so you can just walk around and mow people down.
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