Ho ho ho, well played Valve.
Is this real? Please let it be real.
Praise our Lord Gaben, holy fuck this is so good. I don’t regret abandoning League at all.
What is smurfing?
Using an alternate accounts so you can play with lower ranks and easily win them. It’s a form of griefing in video games and against the rules.
I know why I quit competitive multiplayer & open pvp games a long time ago. It’s just too toxic and people are more into griefing weaker players than actually testing themselves against equal or even stronger foes who also want to fight.
I very much agree with you. I cannot dedicate the time to playing a game that an 18 year old can dedicate. Even if I could, I’m not going to have the same speed. It’s back to single player games, Civilization and Cities Skylines for me
It’s not always against the rules. I believe that LoL, for example, allows it.
Unsurprisingly the game known to have one of the worst communities.
Not only allows but seems to encourage it.
That why LoL is trash. I tried so hard to get into it, but the smurfing singlehandedly ruins it.
I played LoL back in the early 2010’s, and I had to smurf to even enjoy the game. Once I got out of the beginning levels the other players’ skill skyrocketed and I just couldn’t keep up. I needed to make a couple new accounts just to be among players of my own skill level.
Experienced player creating a new account to stomp on low rank players.
So if they don’t accept it do they avoid the ban?
Also how do they know genuine griefers from people that have lost their account and had to make a new one?
It would probably just autoban a few days later.
The players who lost their accounts aren’t hanging around on unranked matches to stomp newbies. They’ll want to go into ranked matches to get their level back up. Also, activity on both the new account and the old one would sus out deliberate smurfers
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