Can't play with friends because of rank difference. Really?

[keytwitchy]

Okay, so this new thing where you can't play with people if they're too low, or too high of a rank is pointless and fixes nothing. It only makes the problem worse because it forces me to use a smurf account, which means that the other team will be at an even larger disadvantage than if I were to just be able to play with my friend on my main account in the first place. But I guess that doesn't really matter, since you guys are getting paid for the second copy of CS:GO on the smurf account, right? C'mon. The point of this game is to have fun, and that includes being able to play with your friends. I hope you consider changing it back.

[frisky]

Originally posted by Twitch:

Okay, so this new thing where you can't play with people if they're too low, or too high of a rank is pointless and fixes nothing.

I finished reading your 1st sentence and determined that you don't know what you're talking about.

You can play with whatever ranks you want if you have a 5man lobby; do that.

[KAM1KAZE]

what if he doesnt have 4 friends

[keytwitchy]

I'm aware that if you have a 5 man lobby you can play with each other. The thing is, people, including myself, don't always have 5 people to play with. So to say that I don't know what I'm talking about because I didn't mention this minor quirk, is idiotic. My point remains. Until this is fixed, I guess I'll be destroying people with my smurf and making them not want to play anymore.

[Bread]

"Okay, so this new thing" it's been around for like 2 months now dude

[keytwitchy]

And CS:GO has been around about 2 1/2 years, so yes.. it's a "new thing".

[frisky]

I'd like to highlight some contradictions:

Originally posted by Twitch:

because it forces me to use a smurf account

Originally posted by Twitch:

don't always have 5 people to play with

You're not forced to make a smurf, you're forced to find friends. You'd rather take the easy route and spend $10 for a smurf. There's several threads here, an active subreddit community (/r/recruitcs), and god knows how many hidden gems there are on the internet. If you have issues making friends, that sounds like 100% a person problem. But it's easier for you to blame Valve and keep smurfing, so you just go ahead and do that.

Originally posted by Twitch:

The point of this game is to have fun, and that includes being able to play with your friends.

Originally posted by Twitch:

Until this is fixed, I guess I'll be destroying people with my smurf and making them not want to play anymore.

To me, it seems like your idea of fun is playing people less skilled than you are.

Originally posted by Twitch:

So to say that I don't know what I'm talking about because I didn't mention this minor quirk, is idiotic. My point remains.

They implemented a rank restriction to stop narcissistic people (much like yourself) from queueing up with people far below their rank to either a) boost the low rank, or b) legitimately smurf.

Do you know what you can do if you can't find 4 friends to play with? Community 5v5, CEVO, FaceIt, IRC. You don't want to do any of that, you want to smurf, and you'll look for any half-baked self-justified reason you need to convince yourself that you have no other choice but to smurf.

Nobody's putting a gun to your head and telling you to log off your main, and nobody's forcing you to take your lower-ranked friends into MM; there are other outlets available. But why acknowledge those when they don't justify smurfing?

[keytwitchy]

Originally posted by frisky:

I'd like to highlight some contradictions:

Originally posted by Twitch:

because it forces me to use a smurf account

Originally posted by Twitch:

don't always have 5 people to play with

You're not forced to make a smurf, you're forced to find friends. You'd rather take the easy route and spend $10 for a smurf. There's several threads here, an active subreddit community (/r/recruitcs), and god knows how many hidden gems there are on the internet. If you have issues making friends, that sounds like 100% a person problem. But it's easier for you to blame Valve and keep smurfing, so you just go ahead and do that.

Originally posted by Twitch:

The point of this game is to have fun, and that includes being able to play with your friends.

Originally posted by Twitch:

Until this is fixed, I guess I'll be destroying people with my smurf and making them not want to play anymore.

To me, it seems like your idea of fun is playing people less skilled than you are.

Originally posted by Twitch:

So to say that I don't know what I'm talking about because I didn't mention this minor quirk, is idiotic. My point remains.

They implemented a rank restriction to stop narcissistic people (much like yourself) from queueing up with people far below their rank to either a) boost the low rank, or b) legitimately smurf.

Do you know what you can do if you can't find 4 friends to play with? Community 5v5, CEVO, FaceIt, IRC. You don't want to do any of that, you want to smurf, and you'll look for any half-baked self-justified reason you need to convince yourself that you have no other choice but to smurf.

Nobody's putting a gun to your head and telling you to log off your main, and nobody's forcing you to take your lower-ranked friends into MM; there are other outlets available. But why acknowledge those when they don't justify smurfing?

Oh, please. Quit being stupid. Nothing I said contradicts itself, and all of your points are irrelevent and/or flat out wrong. I'm well aware of why they made the restriction and in my original post I explained why it does not help. The whole point of this thread is because I want to play with my friend and NOT smurf.

It's as simple as that, and my point remains. I shouldn't need to add a bunch of random people on my friends list that I met in MM just so I can invite them when I want to play with my friend. That solves nothing when it comes to fixing the problem.

[Geff]

yep, it is a stupid attempt to prevent boosting. I have no problem with boosting. boosters get high rank that they arent and will hard fail when they play alone.
but like u said, many think they have to smurf then.
and smurf is a really big problem. so it was bad idea of valve

[keytwitchy]

Originally posted by Goodspeed:

yep, it is a stupid attempt to prevent boosting. I have no problem with boosting. boosters get high rank that they arent and will hard fail when they play alone.
but like u said, many think they have to smurf then.
and smurf is a really big problem. so it was bad idea of valve

My point exactly! Thank you.

[RubberDuckyOne]

I believe that was implemented on DOTA 2 yesterday. Not on CSGO