Smurfs completely ruin the game already as is. They serve no purpose outside of inflating player numbers and making all games in silver to platinum complete hell.
Hardware bans are already implemented, so just utilize that tech to bind 1 overwatch account to the hardware and smurfing is gone. They’re already adding a gamemode that removes rank restrictions, and quickplay exists for a reason, so you can’t use the “what if i want to play with my friends?” card.
While we’re at it, ban people from the entire comp season if they leave games actively. Leavers are as big of a blight as smurfs are.
you can’t expect Blizzard to ban for that. How to even tell when you have a smurf? Say for instance 2 brothers share an account. One brother is bad, the other really good… You can’t ban them for only buying one account. Or if you are really good as a widow player but bad at the other dps heroes… However you also have fun playing those other dps heroes which makes you stay at a lower rank than the rank your widow play would be at… are you going to ban players for playing hero’s that they are not good at within the same class… It is just not realistic. Also in a lot of cases where it seems like there is a smurf to the eyes of someone who doesn’t understand how OW works, it can actually simply be a support difference. Many people don’t notice those…
The rootcause in general is the poor matchmaking which ultimately results in poor ranking.
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It’s already bannable.
Report, cheating, boosting/deranking.
That tends to get the job done.