This game has a serious smurfing problem.

[Couch_King]

I hate to be a gnark but... There are websites online selling "bronze ready" accounts for $1. People who are grandmaster/celestial can just jump into a new account and start griefing bronze/silver lobbies. NetEase should do something to solve this or risk losing a lot of players. I see a lot of people complaining about the matchmaking being engagement based, which is probably true, but I think the bigger issue is smurfing/carrying. NetEase should make people register a phone number to their account and only allow one account per phone number or something to help stop this.

[Charmander787]

get ready for the $2 smurf accounts where they just buy a phone number to link.

IMHO, there should be smurf detection like dota2 which makes these player's ELO spike up on landslide wins.

Smurfing is most damaging when it takes forever to rank up properly. Not sure if placements would help this problem either since people could just throw those.

[Amor]

Why are they paying money for a smurf account. Do they not know they could just do it themselfs?

[THAT Guy]

Lol..

Funny thing is if you follow the paper trail, some of the groups selling accounts have ties to netease.

This would suggest netease is in on it..

The purpose of which is to misdirect players into blaming things like smurfs and cheaters for their terrible matchmaking experience instead of the god awful matchmaking system that's actually responsible for the terrible experience..

[Liam]

Yea it's an increasing phenomenon and pretty massive since 1-2 weeks now. lots of low lvl accounts destroying low ranks in comp. I mean they literally do it openly if you check the game official discord, search for smurf, you'll find stuff like "Celestial/GM smurf, dm for carry" all over the place.

They should def ban smurfing like Dota or Lol.
Then implement a true SBMM /w placement matches.
And remove their stupid bot games in quickplay.

[IndianaJones]

İlk olarak Ashen Lad tarafından gönderildi:

Why are they paying money for a smurf account. Do they not know they could just do it themselfs?

IMHO they buy those due to entry level needed for ranked games. Currently level 10 account is needed, so it still requires you to play a few hours to get to level 10 (in legit way).

Phone ID would probably be somewhat effective, but it is rather controversial idea. I heard Blizzard wanted to do that for Overwatch but eventually backed out.

IMHO, NetEase should drop / delete their free non webstore associated game client. Even something like requirement of valid Steam or Epic account is somewhat of a gate keeping than simple email verification, you can make countless free or temporary email accounts.

[pewpew]

nah the only problem i have is people too obsessed with raccoon

[Terotrous]

İlk olarak Charmander787 tarafından gönderildi:

IMHO, there should be smurf detection like dota2 which makes these player's ELO spike up on landslide wins.

It already somewhat does this, if you perform really well you gain more rank points.

Of course you could debate about how quickly it should move you. You can gain about half a rank per match if you perform absurdly well, meaning you could go from Bronze to Silver in like 6 games if you're dominating to an absurd degree. Is that too slow? Hard to say.

[Couch_King]

İlk olarak THAT Guy tarafından gönderildi:

Lol..

Funny thing is if you follow the paper trail, some of the groups selling accounts have ties to netease.

This would suggest netease is in on it..

The purpose of which is to misdirect players into blaming things like smurfs and cheaters for their terrible matchmaking experience instead of the god awful matchmaking system that's actually responsible for the terrible experience..

Can't say I'd be surprised. Game companies have a long history of employees being involved with item selling stores, etc.

[7ShockeR7]

I’m in d1/gm3 and the smurfing problem is a huge problem. About 1 in 5 games there’s 2 people on their team that are level 20 with less than 20 hours in the game and just absolutely dominate. Makes the grind to get higher ranks especially this high up not even worth it

[Couch_King]

İlk olarak ShockeR tarafından gönderildi:

I’m in d1/gm3 and the smurfing problem is a huge problem. About 1 in 5 games there’s 2 people on their team that are level 20 with less than 20 hours in the game and just absolutely dominate. Makes the grind to get higher ranks especially this high up not even worth it

It seems especially bad in silver and gold on PC. Lots of people with level 12 accounts that are gold 2/3. It's obvious people are just buying alt accounts for cheap and griefing these lobbies. Makes it really feel bad as a player just trying to climb out of gold.