Say goodbye to your smurf accounts: Valve introduces prime matchmaking

Players using multiple accounts create a negative matchmaking experience at all skill brackets, so our goal is to add just enough friction to this process that the number of players doing this will be noticeably reduced. Having more players using their primary accounts will have a positive effect on both Ranked and Unranked Matchmaking. There will be a two-week grace period from today during which players have time to register a number, but starting on May 4th, accounts without a registered number will no longer be eligible for Ranked play.

If a phone number is removed from an account after registration, a new number can be added, but there will be a three-month waiting period before the removed number can be registered on a new account. This is to prevent using the same number on multiple accounts. Online services that provide phone numbers are not allowed.

Alleviated somewhat by the report system, which puts the worst offenders in a “Low Priority Punishment Queue” pool during the matchmaking search for a game or gives them communication bans.

Dota 2 Spring Cleaning is live! Spring Cleaning is here! It has been a while since the last major patch hit, but today, as part of the 6-months biweekly update program, Valve has rolled out Spring Cleaning update, containing various QOL improvements and changes. Let’s go over some of the most important changes together! Redesigned player profile Perhaps, one of the most widely-asked updates was that to the player profile.

Spring Cleaning has completely revamped the look of the profile. Now, you can place up to 3 featured heroes, with the cosmetics equipped on the page, for everyone to see that great set of yours! Not only that, the background of the profile can be changed to one of the loading screens you own – a very good use for them, now that they are almost never used during the loading times. Gameplay Changelog Notifications Does a Broodmother have an idea Webs do not give invisibility anymore?

Is Windranger aware she can run while Focus Firing? Valve made sure players stay on top of the patch changes by introducing the notifications – the most recent changes to the heroes in the current match can be evoked easily, so this is surely a big step towards making sure the players are aware of the changes and don’t have to learn them the hard way.