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[Holammer]

Smurfs are high skill/ranked players creating new accounts to dunk on newbies or behave in ways they would never do on main. It is frowned up because it's very discouraging to encounter them as a new player when you don't even know the keys. Smurfing was prohibited in the Steam Online Conduct rules back in May this year, so this is bloody harvest. If you smurf in other Valve games like Counterstrike, reconsider.

Not only are they banning smurfs, they have also traced the main accounts and threaten to sanction them too.

Dota 2 - Smurfing is Not Welcome in Dota - Steam News

Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence. Additionally, we have...

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[funkygunther]

 

[pauljeremiah]

 

[Mr Hyde]

 

[Skifi28]

Valve be like:

 

[mitch1971]

 

[Wildebeest]

RIP "new" moba players.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Valve be like:

Gaben = Gargamel is coming

 

[Kamina]

Gaben = Gargamel is coming

Gabemel

 

[BlackTron]

Not only are they banning smurfs, they have also traced the main accounts and threaten to sanction them too.

This is awesome. What's the difference if the only risk of making a smurf account is having that account banned? You could just make yet another new one, which is the entire point of smurfing.

Hit em where it hurts.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Those poor blue people

 

[Gp1]

Dota should be paid. Cheap but paid.

It would solve almost every community problem that the game has.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

LOL. What shameful people. I didn't know smurfing was even a thing. Whether I'm good at a MP game or lousy, I just stick to my one profile to play every game.

I guess this is kind of similar to the old World at War Level 8 starting mode. Not two accounts like smurfing. But in that game when you go MP for the first time you get put into the starter's section. Once you get to level 9, you play with everyone else. BUT you got to exit the lobbies. Then the game would put you into the normal playlists.

But what some people did was play all day 24 hours and level up as high as possible milking it and killing all the noobs and getting familiar with the maps and unlocking gear vs noobs starting at level 1.

No wonder when I played for the first time, some people were already level 30.

 

[killatopak]

LOL. What shameful people. I didn't know smurfing was even a thing.

It is while most of them are very negative to the community some have done some entertaining stuff with it. Typically in MOBA games you have a position you have to get good with to carry you to the top. Some have started new accounts to test their skills and start from zero to try to reach their previous ranking in a different position. Some people fly over to different countries and make a new account there with the goal of reaching the highest rank because that server is considered the best globally.

I personally partake in smurfing but only on non-ranked ones to expand my pool of characters to use as I feel like using characters I have no experience with is a clear disadvantage for my team mates as well as myself. And before you ask, normal games on the game I'm talking about has their own MMR so the same thing applies. It just has a lot more stakes in ranked games.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It is while most of them are very negative to the community some have done some entertaining stuff with it. Typically in MOBA games you have a position you have to get good with to carry you to the top. Some have started new accounts to test their skills and start from zero to try to reach their previous ranking in a different position. Some people fly over to different countries and make a new account there with the goal of reaching the highest rank because that server is considered the best globally.

I personally partake in smurfing but only on non-ranked ones to expand my pool of characters to use as I feel like using characters I have no experience with is a clear disadvantage for my team mates as well as myself. And before you ask, normal games on the game I'm talking about has their own MMR so the same thing applies. It just has a lot more stakes in ranked games.

Ya I guess there's some non-dubious reasons to smurf.

For me, I just say stick to one account. It would be like me making multiple accounts just to test guns and perks in a shooter so I dont get nailed in ranked games and screw up my stats. If I want to test new class set ups I just do it on my only profile. And I'm someone who is a stat whore. but still dont really care messing with different set ups even if they lead to bad matches.

 

[killatopak]

Ya I guess there's some non-dubious reasons to smurf.

For me, I just say stick to one account. It would be like me making multiple accounts just to test guns and perks in a shooter so I dont get nailed and screw up my stats. If I want to test new class set ups I just do it on my only profile. And I'm someone who is a stat whore. but still dont really care messing with different set ups even if they lead to bad matches.

Yes, I don't really do it anymore as their system put in place stuff that makes it harder to switch accounts if you want things that they offer. I'm talking about battle passes. The free ones at least. They encourage you to play on a single account because of all the requirements and amount of games you need.

Obviously if people got money to burn they'll still do it but it definitely lessens the potential users.

 

[MrA]

Surfing has to be one of the most self destructive and pathetic behaviors, oh you showed this new player, now they don't want to play the game anymore

 

[Holammer]

LOL. What shameful people. I didn't know smurfing was even a thing. Whether I'm good at a MP game or lousy, I just stick to my one profile to play every game.

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Yes, that's why I included a quick explanation. It's also a big problem for online Chess and Go. I understand why some people smurf, it's super taxing to play at high ranks where everyone knows the meta and will punish you if you don't follow it. I think some COD YTbers cried about it not too long ago because it was difficult to gather good gameplay footage.

That's the beauty of Team Fortress 2, most players just join casual so sweaty try hards & conga dancing friendlies get to play together, but it's still fun.

 

[Spukc]

 

[Urban]

99% russians

 

[Dick Jones]

I entered the thread and was not disappointed. Great smurfing work