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Are smurf accounts really that big a problem?
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Edited by Grolyat on 06/08/12 00:53 (BST)
I remember when I started playing SC2 and all I read anywhere was that in bronze, silver and even gold leagues you will see cheese every other game or every few games. There was also a lot of bronze players complaining that they have come up against smurf accounts of players who are actually in much higher leagues, who either destroy bronze players for fun or surrender games immediately. After having played maybe 200 games in bronze my question is, is the above really as big a problem as people make it out to be?
I have been in bronze since I started maybe a month or 2 ago and I can honestly say that I have very, VERY rarely played anyone that is carrying out a cheese tactic (the most common being cannon rushes but this has only been attempted against me in about 5 games out of 200). I have also only ever encountered 1 smurf player in 200 games (and he accounts for 1 of the 5 cannon rushes) and have also ever had one game where my opponent leaves at the start of the game. Am I just incredibly lucky, or is it just not as big a problem as the forums would have us believe? Personally I find cheese to be much more common in 2v2 (where if you are against a protoss/zerg pairing, you can pretty much guarantee cannon and ling rush) than 1v1. |
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I started playing like 2 months ago or sumthin, but really. No. I mean, sure I've been roflstomped a few times - but if they were smurfs, or just better I don't know. It doesn't matter. You lose some, you win some. Be it against smurfs or not.
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Edited by TheBlisterer on 08/08/12 21:18 (BST)
Yup it doesn't really matter. So far I would say my free wins for drop outs are the same as losing to smurfs.I did that once his rage was hilarious EDIT: He was in diamond I was in Bronze, I have no idea how I beat him. I think it was cos i'd seen a lot of high level games on HDStarcrafts channel that day and I was on blistering form for about 5 hours (excuse the pun). |
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Well, logically, if one wants to smurf to be able to be mean to newbies he doesn't have much standing to complain that it's mean to prevent him. Kinda like a child thinks a parent is mean if the parent doesn't allow that child to be mean to another child. :P
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I once thought that smurfs were all over the place, not that I couldn't live with getting face rolled;-P
But because every time I got Face Rolled, I looked at my opponents profile, and they were bronze in 1vs1, but always gold+ in team games. But now I know that almost everyone are in a higher league in teams. Because you have someone to watch your back, someone to keep scouting, some one to etc. etc. So no, smurfs are not a big problem? Also, remember, If you have a game against a smurf and you watch the replay, you will learn much more from that, than from a game against someone in your own league. |
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Are there that many smurfs? Seems pretty rash buy another account just to skillfake.
On a personal note the only skillfakers i have encountered have been in 1v1 where they played diamond/master one or two seasons earlier. However the leap between silver-plat isnt that big imo and ive played one or two diamonds which ive won over. The biggest concern from lower leauge players should be to learn the game and care less about what leauge the other part is playing in since it is a part of the learningprocess to lose some games. |
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Only bronzies complain about smurfs, but they would complain about the weather making them lose if they didn't have anything better
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