Papa Jeff says the Smurf does not cheat in Overwatch

Smurfing means starting a new account in an online game so you can play easily with low level players. It's really an impulsive gesture, but one wonders if it's technically cheating or not. Well, now we have an official word. Jeff, from the Overwatch team, says it's not against the rules – as long as you play a certain way.

"Creating a new account is not against the rules," says Papa Jeff. "Stimulating or throwing is against the rules. If you start a new account and play normally, the matchmaker determines your skill level very quickly and associates you with similar players.

This goes through the Battle.net forums. So, as long as you play on your own account and you do not play games to stay in the lowest ranks, you are free to disturb anything you want. As you need to buy a new copy every time – at least on PC – I'm sure Blizzard does not care too much about these efforts.

It may be appropriate for Blizzard to have a laissez-faire approach to smurf, as Internet users think the term has come for online games with Warcraft II. The old school Blizzard website says that "it's a slang term coined by Warp! and Shlonglor means good or famous players using fake names to hide from people who then try to beat other players. It is only a "Smurf" if these players win. "

Kaplan also recently discussed multi-platform Overwatch accounts on forums, and how the team was still trying to find a solution to this thorny problem. More immediately, we now have patch 1.28 with Busan, which finally allows us to play the new card outside the test servers.

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