Dota 2 - Smurfing is Not Welcome in Dota - Steam News
Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence. Additionally, we have...
found to be smurf accounts, which are typically accounts players will make to allow them to play at a lower skill level. Since then almost every major Dota 2 community hub, especially the sub-Reddit, has been filled with people either trying to justify their smurfing or claiming they never did, and it’s hilarious to finally see these people get some punishment.
In a blog post the Dota 2 dev team revealed that the 90,000 accounts were just smurf accounts that have been active in recent months, so are probably just a small percentage of the total number of smurf accounts ever used. They also revealed that they had traced every one of these accounts back to the main account of the person who used it, and they have all been sent a warning.
Going forward, any main account that is found to be associated with a smurf account will get some kind of punishment, that can be as small as adjustments to your behavior score through to outright account bans.
