DOTA 2 Bans 90,000 Unfair Players Hacking Little Ones – “The Best Day of My Life”

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With MOBA DOTA 2 (Steam), developer Valve is now against so-called “smurf accounts” proceeded: These are accounts of strong players who disguise themselves as newcomers in order to achieve easy victories. After the ban, the forums are full of whining players – for some “honest games” that’s pure satisfaction.

What is a smurf and why do you do it?

  • With MOBAs and shooters there is a matchmaking rating (MMR): This measures how good a player is and ensures that he is matched to opponents and fellow players who are roughly the same. This makes the “normal game” exciting, but also stressful, because you only win about 50% of your matches and are always challenged.
  • A “smurf account” is the account of a strong player who pretends to be a rookie in order to play against “true rookies”: he usually pulls them off easily. Those who “smurf” play significantly better than the rest.
  • Streamers, for example, create a new account in order to play from “the bottom to the top” as quickly as possible. Smurfs are also used to “let the fuck out”, to troll, to insult, to behave unfairly.

    • Why is this a problem? Smurfing is generally frowned upon: Because it is frustrating for real newcomers or weak players when the other supposed newcomer is actually a much better player who is only disguised as “Smurf”, English for “Smurf”.

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    Valve bans 90,000 smurfs, threatens main accounts with ban too

    This is what Valve has now done: Valve banned 90,000 accounts believed to be smurf accounts (via dota). Valve says they “traced each and every one of those secondary accounts back to their primary account.”

    In addition, a warning was sent to the main accounts that could be assigned a smurf.

    The main accounts have been threatened that if this happens again from now on they will be punished in the future. The punishment could lead to a temporary ban and a permanent exclusion.

    What’s the reaction? Forums like Reddit are filled with posts from players complaining that they’ve been completely unfairly accused of smurfing. They were wrongly warned.

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    But it seems unlikely that so many were “wrongly” accused, because “smurfing” is generally regarded as a big problem in DOTA 2.

    One Twitter user compiled a page of such “complaint posts,” writing, “Today is one of the best days of my life.”

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