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Merging Accounts

Leetzorz·10/26/2015, 10:51:25 PM·7 votes·601 views

Smurf accounts are inevitable. People make them to play with friends, try out new things, screw around with "Only maining <champion> to <rank>" and even to play anonymously. I think that a solution to the large number of accounts taken up per unique player would be to offer a service to merge player accounts so that a single login can allow you access to more than a single summoner. This feature would be akin to the character selection screens of MMORPGS where you have a single account to sign into the game, but each character/summoner would have its own unique champions, skins, runes, levels, and statistics separate from the others.

My idea is that the box where the summoner name is located (the thing that shows your experience bar and name) be changed to have a drop down menu to select from multiple accounts that could be merged through a multi-step process that requires authorization from email addresses to insure proper security. Riot Point wallets could be merged for the entire account, but have IP separate per summoner, similar to the way that in game currency would be unique to the character in an RPG, but account purchases would affect all the characters on the account.

Smurf accounts will never go away as long as it is possible to have more than a single account per verified user, but by making the creation and perhaps even deletion of smurf accounts easier, it may be possible to make the system less abused.

7 Comments

Mimy10/26/2015, 10:52:57 PM2 votes

Agree but perhaps two summoners per account and if one gets banned they both do

This way if sibling share an account they keep eachother in check. Why? Think of low priority and how it has friends keeping eachother in check. Not many friends like to wait 20 minutes for their friends. So have siblings keep eachother in check by them getting eachother in trouble

Environmentalist10/26/2015, 10:57:11 PM2 votes

Heh, that's a pretty good idea! A couple of questions about it, though. You get 400 RP for getting to level 3 on a new account, should that be eliminated for "smurf" accounts?

I do like this though, it could eliminate high level smurfs in beginner games. I play bot games with my girlfriend occasionally, she's not very good at league, and we always encounter that one turd who knows what hes doing and roams to every lane stealing all the kills. It's really tough to teach her when people like that are in the game. I know I'm also in the game, but I always support her and never make a big impact on the game.

Upvoted!

Fjork310/27/2015, 4:22:51 PM1 votes

It's an interesting idea, but I feel like Riot's never going to build official support into their client on something they've been saying for years is against their terms of service.