4Game

I've been playing this stupid game for 11 years. 11 damn years this game has had me addicted and I love it… the small and large patches, the stupid mechanical bugs that would drop every time a new hero is out, the broken lore (who cares give me the hats).

But if there's one thing I don't like, it's these bullshit account buyers.

Today I got to experience something I hadn't seen before. Watching a friend play a turbo game where not 1…. but 3 players on the Radiant side were clear account buyers!! Three of them. 2 in one party, 1 in the other. To balance this out, they were put up against a leader-board ranked #2000 SEA player on Dire side (who absolutely thumped them).

This is becoming very common in casual games (Turbo etc) – I have been noticing that these same players who are purchasing boosted accounts have also played in ranked. One I re-checked earlier this week had even de-ranked from Immortal to low Ancient in like 2 months. Funny to think about, trash always ends up in the gutter… but I do feel for those people who are playing ranked games and do have this kind of crap happen.

This kind of thing needs to be looked at a lot more seriously, I remember tracking these kind of players in SEA on Overwolf when it was playing ranked – although this escalation is going to continue to leave a negative impact on the overall gaming experience, leading to unfair match ups and frustration for those who play the game legitimately.

To make matters worse, the accounts that I have checked and reported are mostly still active. Many I've come across even have thousands worth of cosmetics in their accounts.

How is this allowed in the game?