seacosmos
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- Apr 22, 2017
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Y'all gonna hate this but what if vertx got rid of the leaderboards? Now before you go "HELL NO LEADERBOARDS MUST STAY FOREVER I NEED TO BEAT (insert person name here) IN (minigame / kills / global wins / level)", hear me out ok.
Targeters and other competitive people all (usually) have one goal: to defeat a legend in a minigame. They think legends are pros and everything (even when they aren't (*cough* ME *cough*)) and they constantly try to defeat them, and soon they don't even play for the fun of playing, they just play to defeat legends.
We know legends because of leaderboards. Those leaderboards show the top 100 players in a game, be it weekly, monthly, or overall (in a specific game). We have leaderboards for levels, global wins, and kills, too. The thing is, with all this, people get competitive. When people get competitive, they start doing whatever they can in their power to defeat whatever legend they're targeting. This includes:
- targeting the legend (always trying to kill them/make them lose)
- harassing / bullying to try to get the legend to quit to make it easier to take over
- doing whatever they can to make the legend's game unenjoyable so they quit
- teaming against the legend
and a few more. Basically, competitiveness leads to games being unenjoyable.
But if the leaderboards were removed, you wouldn't know who has the most wins, kills, whatever, anymore. If you don't know something, and have almost no way to achieve knowledge of it, you start not to care anymore. When you don't care, you start to play more for fun than to beat other players.
And suddenly a lot of competitive / toxic people will be gone. Well hopefully anyway lmao.
Also maybe get rid of levels. The higher your level the more you get targeted since everyone thinks you're a pro and whatnot .-. Like for example let's say you've never played MB and only play Quake / MM / Splatter / BowSpleef or something. One day you decide to play on MB to.. switch things up a bit. When people see your level (which should be pretty high (at least maybe lv 200-300) considering you play games which give tonnnnss of exp), they'll think, "oh that person is obviously a pro because they have a high level!" And then you get targeted. (THIS IS AN EXAMPLE IT'S NOT REAL also no hate to MB but the place is toxic tho)
Soo get rid of leaderboards and levels please?
@edwjusti @WarriorGirl3333 @Flowingmedia @Laura_Aria @Ray_Palmer_Atom @Befib @DarkRainbows @ssunsett @HazardTheDutchAD
Targeters and other competitive people all (usually) have one goal: to defeat a legend in a minigame. They think legends are pros and everything (even when they aren't (*cough* ME *cough*)) and they constantly try to defeat them, and soon they don't even play for the fun of playing, they just play to defeat legends.
We know legends because of leaderboards. Those leaderboards show the top 100 players in a game, be it weekly, monthly, or overall (in a specific game). We have leaderboards for levels, global wins, and kills, too. The thing is, with all this, people get competitive. When people get competitive, they start doing whatever they can in their power to defeat whatever legend they're targeting. This includes:
- targeting the legend (always trying to kill them/make them lose)
- harassing / bullying to try to get the legend to quit to make it easier to take over
- doing whatever they can to make the legend's game unenjoyable so they quit
- teaming against the legend
and a few more. Basically, competitiveness leads to games being unenjoyable.
But if the leaderboards were removed, you wouldn't know who has the most wins, kills, whatever, anymore. If you don't know something, and have almost no way to achieve knowledge of it, you start not to care anymore. When you don't care, you start to play more for fun than to beat other players.
And suddenly a lot of competitive / toxic people will be gone. Well hopefully anyway lmao.
Also maybe get rid of levels. The higher your level the more you get targeted since everyone thinks you're a pro and whatnot .-. Like for example let's say you've never played MB and only play Quake / MM / Splatter / BowSpleef or something. One day you decide to play on MB to.. switch things up a bit. When people see your level (which should be pretty high (at least maybe lv 200-300) considering you play games which give tonnnnss of exp), they'll think, "oh that person is obviously a pro because they have a high level!" And then you get targeted. (THIS IS AN EXAMPLE IT'S NOT REAL also no hate to MB but the place is toxic tho)
Soo get rid of leaderboards and levels please?
@edwjusti @WarriorGirl3333 @Flowingmedia @Laura_Aria @Ray_Palmer_Atom @Befib @DarkRainbows @ssunsett @HazardTheDutchAD
