Most FPS games have grappled with smurfing in some shape or form. For some players, playing ranked modes on a separate account takes the stress out of losing games as your rank doesn't matter as much. For others, it's the simple joy of beating people who are below their rank. Rainbow Six Siege is no different, but Ubisoft wants to do better at tackling it in a way that's fair for everyone.
"It's a difficult problem, one that the whole industry is fighting with," Rainbow Six Siege director Jean-Baptiste Hallé tells us. "One thing we want to improve on is detection. You can't really prevent people from having multiple accounts, you have the right to do that and you can do that legitimately, but it's important that you don't do it to lie to the matchmaking system about your skill level.
"One thing we need to improve on is to get faster at identifying when the performance you're showing doesn't fit with how young your account is. We need to be better at this."
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