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jamtea

How much longer would you be willing to queue to avoid smurfs, alts, freshies, throwers, etc

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Pretty much the title. Diamond is completely infested with these kinds of accounts, and on DPS at least, I'm getting games within 5 minutes on average. There is literally zero game quality. I'd rather wait an additional 5-10 mins to get an actual good quality game with people who belong in the rank I'm playing at, rather than facing these low quality accounts who only exist to fuck up the matchmaking.

Obviously this issue exists at different levels and presents different problems at different ranks, whether it's pub-stomping in gold, boosting in plat, smurfing in diamond, causing population problems in GM (so your queues are 30 mins+). I just don't get why after a decade, Blizzard STILL refuse to actually acknowledge the innate problem smurfing provides. It's not even like it financially helps them in the way that old OW1 accounts used to because people don't even spend money on their smurf accounts.

So yeah, how much longer would you be willing to queue for high trust, better quality matches, because honestly at the moment my queue times end up being a day or two after 3-4 back-to-back smurf run lobbies and I just log off.

Posted May 1, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

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