BANNED FOR SMURFING?

[WIFEMOLESTER]

Didnt play long time and now I'm banned for smurfing, current rank archon prev. ancient.. hello?

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

I mean, you're obviously not a smurf, since this is a 9-year-old account with over 10k hours of Dota. Do you have any secondary accounts?

[WIFEMOLESTER]

yes I have alot of accounts

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

Originally posted by SHARK:

yes I have alot of accounts

There's your answer. Valve stated that egregious smurfs (those who have numerous alt accounts, or who sell accounts) run the risk of having their main account permanently ban. All you can do now is appeal your ban to Steam Support.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by SHARK:

yes I have alot of accounts

If you play DOTA with more than 1 account then you are smurfing as they would all be on different skill brackets. If any of your accounts are banned for smurfing then your primary account may receive a ban as well.

Even the most fairly-matched games of Dota can spiral out of control. And no one wants the extra burden of playing against smurfs. In the past, we leaned heavily on attempting to detect smurf accounts and move them to their correct MMR more quickly, which has helped somewhat but still causes damage along the way in cases of extreme smurfing.

Starting today, smurfing will be a bannable offense. We will primarily focus on new accounts created after today for which we have high confidence in their smurfing and game-ruining behavior. Moreover, we will also occasionally manually ban old pre-existing accounts that are clearly game-ruining. Furthermore, if you are found to be selling accounts, boosting or engaged in similar game ruining behaviors, your primary account may also be subject to a ban. To go along with this, we've recently increased our ban rate for boosters and purchased accounts.

For cases where we don’t have extremely high confidence, but do have cause for smurf suspicion, those accounts are more likely to play with other suspected smurfs until we gain confidence to judge one way or the other.

If you do suspect someone of smurfing in your game, use the new post-game report option included in this update to flag them. This will help us track legit offenders and gather data used to inform our anti-smurf efforts moving forward.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by SHARK:

thats sad because I'm archon now, winning some games 30 0 and I have beed marked as smurf.. mmr system is so wrong based on W/L instead of game impact and sacrifice in the name of team..

You said yourself you have multiple accounts, if you played DOTA on more than 1 account and dominate games on that account due to being in a lower bracket then all your accounts will face a ban. This is game-ruining behavior and especially now since the Netflix show is bringing a lot more new players in it's imperative that the matchmaking be equal for all.

[Protagoras]

Originally posted by SHARK:

thats sad because I'm archon now, winning some games 30 0 and I have beed marked as smurf.. mmr system is so wrong based on W/L instead of game impact and sacrifice in the name of team..

Link that 30-0 game, lets take a look at it.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by The True King:

Originally posted by SHARK:

thats sad because I'm archon now, winning some games 30 0 and I have beed marked as smurf.. mmr system is so wrong based on W/L instead of game impact and sacrifice in the name of team..

Link that 30-0 game, lets take a look at it.

It's fairly easy to get a game where you stomp, 2 games i've gone 51-0 as Riki, not just once but twice. OP blatantly admitted to smurfing by saying they have multiple accounts.

[FaZaaa]

start again and play support only so you dont get smurf bans

[FaZaaa]

dont smurf again

[󠁳 ⁧HardLimiter]

Don´t talk with this guy (Shark)
He posted many stupid troll posts and insults.

Just ignore him.

[mimizukari]

Originally posted by FaZaaa:

start again and play support only so you dont get smurf bans

Once the account is reported once and seen knowing all the mechanics and how to play DOTA on a fresh account (playing archon level of game on their first level 1 tango game) the account will immediately be banned again. Smurfing is not allowed in DOTA.

[76561198989995308]

Originally posted by Etna:

Originally posted by FaZaaa:

start again and play support only so you dont get smurf bans

Once the account is reported once and seen knowing all the mechanics and how to play DOTA on a fresh account (playing archon level of game on their first level 1 tango game) the account will immediately be banned again. Smurfing is not allowed in DOTA.

So i am in this situation, the two accounts i had are both banned because i didn't understand this smurfing stuff. So is my only chance now to delete all accounts and start again in 30 days?

[Absche]

Originally posted by Bart ous X:

Originally posted by Etna:

Once the account is reported once and seen knowing all the mechanics and how to play DOTA on a fresh account (playing archon level of game on their first level 1 tango game) the account will immediately be banned again. Smurfing is not allowed in DOTA.

So i am in this situation, the two accounts i had are both banned because i didn't understand this smurfing stuff. So is my only chance now to delete all accounts and start again in 30 days?

Literally you are out of the game. You can‘t play with your existing accounts and you can‘t make a new one. Cash out your Dota2 inventory and move on to another Steam game. That‘s why Valve is not critical about it, because the banned long term players will feed their business with another game. They are caught by the terms of service of Valve‘s Steam platform.