I’m gold/plat support main with ~400 hours in game, usually play qp in Europe server.
Maybe I just didn’t notice it before, but I’ve seen SO many smurfs during last week, it’s not fun at all. I have smurfs almost in every game. These players that have 4-20 hours but playing a lot better than others and sometimes even dominating lobbies. It’s ruining matchmaking (that is bad even without smurfs) and everyone’s fun.
Imagine: a person’s gm account was banned (for toxicity, for example). This person decided to create new account. Of course the game won’t put him in top500 lobby immediately. And it means that the person will ruin bronze, silver, gold lobbies etc. Where is it fair and fun for other people? And what is the purpose of banning people if they can just go and create new account?
Are the game even banning for smurfing? I’m asking because there are A LOT of smurfs. As I said before I have them in almost every match. And when I was trying to report it for the first time, I didn’t find the field for it. So I decided to report it as Cheating → Boosting.
Today I saw the person who currently is master on each role and has only 80 hours in game. And this person was in my lobby against me. Yeah, seems legit.
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Smurfing has never actually been a problem.
It just annoys some people who need an excuse.
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May I ask which rank you play in? It can’t be bronze-gold for sure.
But no matter what, I believe that you should be awarded for your comment, for the most useless, and ignorant comment of the year.
Your comment just shows your unpleasant, cocky, and annoying Besserwisse personality. I’ll even stretch my neck and guess that you are in your late teens, maybe early 20s, struggling with being equally cool IRL.
I see no other explanation, as to why you would share such a useless opinion. It’s so obvious that you are trying to boost some kind of ego.
It’s actually sad.
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Anywhere from silver to diamond depending on role or account.
Smurfs exist. Most accused of smurfing aren’t.
Actual smurfing isn’t a big problem, just a minor inconvenience occasionally.
I get you disagree, that’s fine. But being a child about it and throwing insults around just shows that you tilt easily and that’s probably a bigger issue than any smurf might be.
Oh okay could you please share the data your blizzard friend shared with you that says that. While i dont have any official blizzard data i have data from actual players who have said that they think that onesided games where the enemy team is just strictly better is a problem.
And ive also seen some objectively horrible players. Im not talking about players that had a bad game and did not perform well, everyone has bad games. You get unlucky and catch a hanzo arrow to the face type of thing that can happen to anyone.
No im talking about misstakes that are quantifiable, what i mean by that is that you can judge someones game understanding off of them. Turning a corner and not knowing widow is scoped in on that corner just waiting for you and getting killed for example is not a quantifiable misstake. A quantifiable misstake is when a mercy rezzes you on a payload map when the enemy team just got wiped and you are pushing the payload. If that person is a mercy main that is not a player that belongs in mid plat imo.
You play the game. You’ll have seen what everyone else sees.
You choosing to falsely accuse people of smurfing, or even cry about it when someone actually is are you issues.
Why would you care that much in a casual video game. Just take the L, mess about, have a laugh and move on. You can’t win every game.
Also, look at the forums when smurfs are mentioned. Rarely are they actually talking about smurf accounts. They are talking about alt accounts. It’s a lack of understanding and desire to push responsibility for failure on to others.
I had a smurf in every game during the weekend either on my team or the opposing team. I am diamond 3 tank and plat 1 dps. I have lost 11 in a row while playing against smurfs. 45/55/23 hours etc. profile playing like a top 500. That made me uninstall this dead game. And you know something is dead when you get smurf every game. And before you ask, yes, they leave the profile open or just use the stock player icon that you only use if you want to play free. This reminds me of what Overwatch 1 was at the end and during 2018. Nothing has changed and now it’s especially bad because it’s free to play.
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Your masseur is only passively toxic. This is not a casual game. This game is still comp based and will be after PvE. Your accusation here is pointless and only seeks agony
No, the game is 100% casual.
Some people just take it far too seriously for their own good sadly. Which leads them to tilting when things don’t go as they planned and that’s when people get toxic.
There is also the set of players emboldened by anonymity who just get drunk with “power” and abuse people.
No toxicity is created by the game, or because of other people. The only person to blame for toxic behaviour is the person being toxic. If you can’t control yourself, you need to ask yourself why.
skill issue if i ever seen one tbh fam
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