Apex Legends players demand changes to stop Ranked smurfing for good in Season 15 Respawn EntertainmentThe Apex Legends community is once again calling on developers Respawn to make a small change that should stop players from surfing in Ranked entirely. Smurfing is a huge issue in just about every game that has a skill-based MMR system, and Apex Legends is no different. From the get-go, players are pretty much immediately able to jump straight into ranked lobbies after reaching level 10 \u2014 making it simple for just about anyone to smurf. However, the community is suggesting the Respawn devs make a simple change that\u2019ll hopefully put an end to the problem once and for all. Apex Legends players demand Ranked requirement A recent influx in smurfs has the community demanding action. In a Reddit thread on October 12, one Apex player hit out at the \u201ca**hats\u201d ruining the game for everybody else. \u201cI just got killed by an entire smurf master\/pred squad that were all silver 1 in gold ranked. They had a combined 22 kills between them with the kill leader having 12,\u201d the player said. \u201cYa\u2019ll are ruining the f**king game for everyone and I hope you step in dogsh*t the next time you actually go outside and touch grass.\u201d To combat the pressing issue, one player once again brought up the discussion of increasing the ranked requirements \u2014 something that\u2019s previously been heavily debated amongst the community. \u201cAll I\u2019m saying, is that instead of reaching level 10, to be able to play ranked, the level minimum should be increased to 50,\u201d they wrote. \u201cSmurfers will have a lot higher level to grind to compared to 10.\u201d While the change may sound good on paper, it\u2019s not exactly the best solution. As noted by another user, less than 21% of players ever make it past level 50 according to PlayStation trophies. That stat is even worse on Xbox too, with supposedly only 14.35% surpassing it. Given that, it\u2019s unlikely we\u2019ll see the requirement increase from Level 10 to 50. Perhaps a lower level would be better and provide a middle ground for all. With Season 15 on the horizon, hopefully, the devs will look at other ways to combat smurfs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends players demand changes to stop Ranked smurfing for good in Season 15 Respawn EntertainmentThe Apex Legends community is once again calling on developers Respawn to make a small change that should stop players from surfing in Ranked entirely. Smurfing is a huge issue in just about every game that has a skill-based MMR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}