Additionally, we have traced every single one of these smurf accounts back to its main account.
Good
Additionally, we have traced every single one of these smurf accounts back to its main account.
So what counts as a smurph then? I've got multiple accounts with 1k+ games. Are those smurphs? For years there was no such thing as MMR re-calibration, so your literal only option was to start over.
If the account is not at roughly the same mmr it seems reasonable to count it as a smurf
It’s a special kind of control complex to try and wail on people below your level, either your life is going shitty or you’re just young and being shitty for the lulz, but at that point, you’re not having fun by challenging yourself, you’re having fun avoiding the challenge and causing other people’s fun to diminish in turn
Pic is so fun 😆
90K accounts. God damn. I'd love to see how many of those we recently active.
This is such great news for me. I'm married and I have a son now. I can only play dota once a week (if I'm lucky). Imagine my frustration when I would get smurfs on the two games I play in a week. It was soul crushing. It was definitely ruining the game
I just started playing again and seeing this plus the thousands of cheating accounts banned in February makes Vavle seem a bit more competent than Riot Games at caring for their playerbase
Tf2 fans sobbing in the background
They flagged my account as being tied to a smurf account (didn't get banned or anything), but I never even owned, created, or used another steam account.
I wonder if it could be because I play at the local net cafe sometimes? They could be seeing a lot of accounts from the same IP?
Possibly. False positives are bound to happen. I've never been to net cafes, do you use your own account there or do you play on a shared account?
I always play on my own account there, shared accounts are usually when people want to play paid games they don't own
Yeah idk maybe contact Valve support, I've had relatively good experiences with them regarding VR stuff.
There seems to be a problem with netcafes, let's hope Valve will take this into account
I wonder how effective of an impact this will have. I feel like I saw a fair number of high MMR people with smurfs, anybody see how that impacted any of them?
I mean as long as they can absolutely prove it.