Can we do something to remove smurfing?
I don't smurf. Because of that, I've played a lot of games with one account.
I think, the matchmaking system, sees "this player has played many, many games: therefore, they must be very skilled. . ." the problem is, there's a lot of smurfs, with less total games, but more honest experience, and those smurfs don't get analyzed as being the same level as me, even though they're stronger than me. There's a lot of smurfs out there! Many of my friends, have three to five accounts!
So matchmaking has a really tough time with this: numerically, I look really strong, but many people who have worse statistics, are easily stronger than me, because their numbers are spread over several accounts instead of just one.
Because so many players smurf, I'm the odd man out for not smurfing: The system expects, most players aren't smurfs, and I think, maybe most players, do smurf now a days.
That means the game, loads me into a team that mathematically looks balanced [because I, as a rare non-smurfer, have so many games played], but really: I'm not as good as many accounts that have half as much playtime!
So I feel like, matchmaking is tilted, to always give me the . . suckier team!!
Many good players smurf: so their strength for matchmaking becomes kind of hidden. It's fine when there's only a few smurfs. . but I really think there's starting to be A LOT of smurfs now.
Instead of, 20,000 players with 5000 games each, the systems sees just 100 players with 5000 games, so it assumes those 100 players are terribly OP players, when really it's because 19,900 players are hiding their statistics behind multiple accounts.
I really feel that I, as an honest player, get the worst part of this game. . . Is this true? Is this how matchmaking operates? Because I really feel, like I get the inferior team, way more than 50% of the time. And I know, a tonne of players smurf. Most of my friends do!
