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New EA Patent Could Help Detect Smurf Accounts

EA comes up with an innovative way of detecting high-skilled players in low-level matches, suggesting improved smurfing protections.

gamerant.com

According to one of the company's recent patent listings, it is looking for a serious solution to the smurfing problem, attempting to identify a set of gameplay metrics that would assist in figuring out who may be smurfing in low-skill online matches. The patent describes leveraging metadata sourced through gameplay to stealthily tag players as newbies or veterans in the background, and these would possibly include "accuracy, attack placement, damage caused and/or taken, spawn selection" and so on. The described system would seemingly work alongside regular matchmaking, without making itself apparent to the players in any way.

 

[Lasha]

Im glad somebody is researching the issue. Game sharing on console and PC makes smurfing trivial for many games.

 

[TheDraconian]

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[FunkMiller]

 

[CGNoire]

Whats smurfing?

 

[Dick Jones]

Whats smurfing?

Shut your smurfing mouth. Disgusting comment

 

[gothmog]

Whats smurfing?

It's when you smurf a new smurf in order to smurf against smurfier smurfs.

 

[Sophist]

Whats smurfing?

When someone plays with an alternate account, usually to play against lower ranked players. For example, an 1800 ELO chess player creates a new account to play against 900 ELO players.

 

[Spukc]