Ban the Alts
DaveNgure
Just this week i have played over 6 noob accounts that are beating me in masters duels in like 5 rounds guessing after 10 seconds , not cheating, but alt accounts.....they need to be limited so bad..do something please.
Shakazaramesh
Marcus So, how much longer are you planning on ignoring this for? This is getting ridiculous.
Palmitas
I would appreciate if the Devs atleast addressed that its hard for them to solve this. But they are just quiet. I know its hard, BUT ATLEAST ADDRESS THE ISSUE. Almost 8 months have passed and 0 comment. embarrassing.
bagaboiebailey
please do this this is bagaboiebailey and i beg of u please do this please ban the alts
Chorch_Seeker
You've obviously never played League of Legends, where it is common for some players to have multiple alts in the rankings. At one point, a single player had 4 of the top 10 accounts one season (I don't think he ended with them that way, but for a good part of the season he had around 10 total accounts in the top tier rankings.)
Personally, I don't see any issue with alt accounts, as long as they aren't cheating. It's not like you can create an infinite amount of alts, you have to actually pay for the account to be able to play. It's not a TON of money, but if someone wants to spend their money on more accounts, go for it. I really don't think alts are even that big of an issue. I think people are using confirmation bias to blow it out of proportion.
And honestly, if you lose to an alt, oh well. You should be able to make it up the next game if you are supposed to be at that elo.
LFSMx
Commenting again as reminder to the Geoguessr staff that you've still failed to address this issue. This is clearly something that the community feels strongly on, but the staff's only contribution to the discussion so far is complete silence. If you're not willing to take action on the issue, at least release a statement explaining why Geoguessr is content with alt accounts ruining the ranked experience.
Figsy_Games
Marcus Is there any thing happening with this post? it's been almost 5 months, the post has a ton of support (over 350 up votes) Yet we still have silence from the devs. A response would be apricated
LFSMx
Figsy_Games I too would love a response. The lack of a formal statement regarding the issue for this long is a bit alarming.
Shakazaramesh
Figsy_Games This is really concerning behaviour from the devs. This has been up for half a year, it's been the 2nd most popular suggestion for months, and they're clearly aware of it as one of them merged another post into it. And yet, complete silence. If they're not going to do anything about it they should at least explain why, given that the player base almost unanimously wants it.
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Marcus
Merged in a post:
A reporting option for obvious smurfing
ActionFish
1300+ rated players in "Gold", 99% winrates with less than 100 classic games played...these kind of accounts absolutely ruin the game for everyone else. Even if we can't ban the alts, there should at least be a way to report and nullify games where the opponent has been found smurfing. Nobody should be losing their day's progress because of pro players who are too scared to play against opponents their own level.
GeoSynxzy
This NEEDS to happen, when i either play ranked i come across way to many alts, also when i watch youtube (wookGG is a great example for this) i also see them coming across alts an awful lot.
Riandur
A way to reduce the number of alts in ranked would be to, rather than ban it outright, discourage it by convincing geoguessr to instead add an unranked mode. That way, top players who don't want to risk rating on their main account could just queue unranked instead of creating an alt - reducing the risk of having to play an alt or cheater for everyone else.
Edit: Just in case, maybe not mention this side benefit on those suggestions though.
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