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Valve bans thousands of Dota 2 smurfing accounts, threatens greater future punishments"Smurfing is not welcome in Dota"
“Smurfing is not welcome in Dota”
Valve also say they’ve “traced every single one” of those accounts back to its main account. In future, main accounts belonging to players found to also be operating smurf accounts, could also be included in the punishments, including “temporary adjustments to behavior scores” and “permanent account bans.”
It’s worth keeping in mind that Dota is a MOBA with a huge skill ceiling, and a team-based game where players are hugely dependent on the quality of their teammates to win. A single high-level player dropping into a low-level match can have a huge negative impact for every other player in that match.
“Dota is a game best enjoyed when played on an even field,” says Valve’s announcement. “The quality of the people in a given match are what makes a match good. We’re invested in making sure your matches are as good as possible, and smurfing makes matches worse.”
Long ago in 2016, weasked you if you had ever smurfed, and why. Some of you had. Please now hand yourselves in for punishment.
