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Overtake Kid has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:01am

Smurf Accounts

Smurf Accounts

I have been playing CS.GO since 2013. Like many players, despite the good and the bad things that happen in CS, I will probably continue to play for a long time into the future. The reason why I am here raising this subject is because there is no good explanation on Google or other websites.

Does anyone know why there are so many ranked smurf accounts prior to the launch of CS.2?

Is it so they can get more item drops (and sell for store credit on the community market)?

And if so, this has already been happening for a long time, but I don’t understand why there has been a big increase in smurf accounts in April 2023 prior to the launch of CS.2?

Many of these accounts have only played 10 games for example (and paid for the Prime Status Upgrade), but they play the same as someone who has 5-10 years experience and others are using wall hack and other dirty tactics but have paid for the prime status upgrade.

If they are doing it for the item drops (farming), why would you spend 1-2 man hours at least, plus the running costs of a gaming setup to obtain a 3 cent graffiti or a 10 cent gun? Or if you're lucky once every 2-4 weeks get a weapon case, for example the Operation Broken Fang weapon case (once every 4-8 man hours of game play). There must be a good reason for this big increase in smurf accounts prior to the CS.2 launch.

Last edited by Overtake Kid; Apr 23, 2023 @ 3:59pm

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Originally posted by Crvcem:

Originally posted by Comet49:
Does anyone know why there are so many ranked smurf accounts prior to the launch of CS.2?

1. Is it so they can get more item drops (and sell for store credit on the community market)?

2. And if so, this has already been happening for a long time, but I don’t understand why there has been a big increase in smurf accounts in April 2023 prior to the launch of CS.2?

3. Many of these accounts have only played 10 games for example (and paid for the Prime Status Upgrade), but they play the same as someone who has 5-10 years experience and others are using wall hack and other dirty tactics but have paid for the prime status upgrade.

4. If they are doing it for the item drops (farming), why would you spend 1-2 man hours at least, plus the running costs of a gaming setup to obtain a 3 cent graffiti or a 10 cent gun? Or if you're lucky once every 2-4 weeks get a weapon case, for example the Operation Broken Fang weapon case (once every 4-8 man hours of game play). There must be a good reason for this big increase in smurf accounts prior to the CS.2 launch.

Thanks

1. Some want more drops, others do it to play with lower ranked friends or chill, others do it to cheat.

2. It's been happening forever, went 10x worse after the game went free. You notice a little difference since CS2 beta was released for some because some legit players obviously went for CS2.

3. 10 games is relative. CSGO stats doesn't track every game. The account could've been lost, hacked, old and unused, so on.

4. I do it because if I'm gonna spend let's say 2h playing CS, it's more effective if I switch accounts after I get the drop in one, specially with today's case prices. Spending 2h in one account or 45min in 3 is the same shxt.

Note: There's a lot of cheating, and almost nothing is what it seems. Most new accounts are gaming lords and it's due to external softwares, not because they came from Valorant LOL. There's a lot of guys that buy older accounts, skins and commends to get more legitimacy in other players' eyes, thinking that enables them to cheat more blatantly.

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Fr4ntic

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:06am

how would you know there are more smurf accounts in any period or recently ?

심장을 파고들어 넌 has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:12am

Originally posted by Fr4ntic:
how would you know there are more smurf accounts in any period or recently ?

Because of derank (it's now everywhere). For what reason? For fun maybe.

Overtake Kid has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:14am

I couldn't say statistically, I don't have all the data, that is true (I am not a Valve employee). It's only an observation on US, EU and Asian servers in the last approx 30 days. But that's a side issue. Regardless of the exact statistics, the question I'm asking is why they would do that? What benefit would they gain in making 1 or perhaps 10 smurf accounts (with prime status upgrade) prior to the CS.2 launch?

Last edited by Overtake Kid; Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:16am

vee

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:21am

Originally posted by Comet49:
I couldn't say statistically, I don't have all the data, that is true (I am not a Valve employee). It's only an observation on US, EU and Asian servers in the last approx 30 days. But that's a side issue. Regardless of the exact statistics, the question I'm asking is why they would do that? What benefit would they gain in making 1 or perhaps 10 smurf accounts (with prime status upgrade)?

You can get at least 1 case every week, sometimes 2 if you're lucky.
If they had 10 smurf accounts that would mean 10-12 cases maybe each week. There's definitely poorer regions where 40x 1-2 USD cases a month can pay your bills.

심장을 파고들어 넌 has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:26am

Originally posted by vee:
You can get at least 1 case every week, sometimes 2 if you're lucky.

I don't think they are playing really (or smurfing on that accounts). Some sort of AFK maybe, but playing - too much time.
Even for 5 cases it's not just 5 hours (because of random).

swrv

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:27am

As a Supreme on my main I refuse to play official match making if they insist on throwing silvers in my games. Smurfing is the only option

◢︎h4luzman◣︎™ has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:28am

There are more reasons to smurf with incoming CS2. For example someone boosts his rank to sell account in the future, new account after VAC/game ban, if you are ♥♥♥♥♥ and you can’t defeat playera at your rank anymore etc...

Last edited by ◢︎h4luzman◣︎™; Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:29am

vee

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:31am

Originally posted by item bank 14:
Originally posted by vee:
You can get at least 1 case every week, sometimes 2 if you're lucky.
I don't think they are playing really (or smurfing on that accounts). Some sort of AFK maybe, but playing - too much time.
Even for 5 cases it's not just 5 hours (because of random).

You need 3-4 hrs of playtime for a case.
30-40 hrs of "work" a week doesn't sound all that awful. Yes, you could farm them while afking too

Overtake Kid has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:35am

OK, thanks for the info. makes a bit more sense now. As you mentioned above then, will be interesting to find out what additional benefits players might receive with the CS.2 launch soon.

Lollash

Apr 23, 2023 @ 7:42am

Report smurfs for griefing. Thats what alot of people do, and we see the reward when they come to cry on the forum about their cooldown for griefing.

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Overtake Kid has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 8:14am

I don't know the exact loopholes in Steam's system, but as you mentioned above, if you have say 3 gaming laptops running CS at the same time, and use some sort of bot software on each of them (to pretend to be human) and even with the additional cost of the prime status upgrade to receive item drops and then trading the weapon cases back to your main account or one of your friends accounts, this may well be a profitable activity. But won't this devalue the Steam community market?

Last edited by Overtake Kid; Apr 23, 2023 @ 4:11pm

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심장을 파고들어 넌 has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 8:20am

Originally posted by Comet49:
But won't this devalue the Steam community market?

Nope, i don't think so.
And yes, it's better to farm cases manually of course.
For example from 10 prime accounts you are getting 10 cases (and maybe half of them is Revolution cases).
So, after 6 month it's 240 cases. Lot's of moneyback from prime status.

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Vault Hunter 101 has Counter-Strike 2

Apr 23, 2023 @ 8:31am

CS2 is coming so people came back after months if not years of not playing, the ranking system is rather bad when it comes to returning players (it can put globals in nova, lmao) so you see so many smurfs

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