i agree with every single point here.-[Silver.Inc* wrote:
I think they do. Why?
Stats have ruined the mod community.
If it wasn't for stats, I reckon more people would be playing mods than normal BF2. Mods like BF2Pro, Project Reality and POE2 are better than BF2. But people never play them, why? Stats. People get too caught up in the numbers and don't play mod servers because they arnt ranked, therefore don't get their precious, precious numbers.
Stats turn people into whores
-Most- people get the J10 on wake, M1A2 on karkand, MI28 on sharqi round after round after round after ro... for one reason...to get a good KDR and improve their stats. No one else besides you gives two shits about your stupid numbers on a website. You rape people in a game who are absolutely defenseless against you as soon as they spawn (TV station, Karkand alley), now wheres the fun in that? There is none. So why do you do it? Oh sir..I just want a good KDR! I just want 10 more hours in a tank to get this rank!
People spend countless hours throwing nades, resupping, throwing again. For what fun? To retain my #1 spot in bf2 sir. If i'm #1 I win the internet.
People flop out the e-penis because of stats
Omg! Look at me! I have a 33 KDR! Who cares. Stats mean shit all when it comes to determining a players skill level. "You suck, lol, you only have a fucking 1.5 kdr, fuck you, you suck." How can you, just by looking at ones numbers, judge their skill? You don't even play with them and you judge them. Fuck off.
Knife and Pistol servers, whats so bad about them?
Why the fuck does EA not allow them? They are fun (atleast for 1-2 rounds, then they get stale). People get high scores in them, what the fuck does it matter, they are just measly little numbers. People should be able to have fun on them, rather than knowing the server will probably be closed down in a week because EA. god of all gods, told them to.
Stats ruin the 'team' aspect of BF2'
Very rarely do you see a squad working together well. Instead of capping a flag, people want to sit behind the known spawn point and set up camp on the people who are about to spawn. The game is supposed to be about winning the round, not who gets the best KDR.
Discuss.
Could write alot more...but 5 mins until I have to go to school
yet ive always found tracking my stats as i play this game (usually just competing with myself) to be part of what makes it fun. in some weird way it makes the time you put into the game add up to something rather than nothing so it keeps you into it compared with other games.
so this brings me to a final point for your list:
Stats make BF2 addicting like an MMORPG
You can play 100 hours of BF2 but your account will suck. The only way you can have a "cool" account (bear with me) is with long hours of accumulating points and skill. If you didn't have any account at all, you would probably play fewer consecutive rounds, etc and would maybe switch off between bf2 and other games rather than bf2-marathoning (or god forbid get up and do other things). I know that looking at my stats determined a lot of my expectations. Like when I first played the game, to my current standards, I was horrible (but i was having fun and probably thought i was pretty decent), and it wasn't until I started paying attention to the score and my account that I realized all the ways I could probably improve. and that quest for improvement is what has kept me with the game. and even though the ranks themselves seem so stupid when you are a newb, once you have like 50,000 points or something you sort of recognize how far youve come and feel BIZARRELY motivated to reach additional ranks, 20,000 points at a time.
ive had fun all along, but i can tell you i would be less involved in BF2 if I hadn't been developing my account over all this time. despite the fact that friendships and the fun of the game also factor into the amount of time i play quite a lot. Its just really similar to an MMORPG, its a fun game that gets more and more fun if you invest your time in it. And even though BF2 is skill-based and doesnt involve just gaining free power for time invested like in WoW, BF2 is so full of particularities (like where on targets to shoot, and what weapons are worth using against what targets, and that u are pretty much invincable against noobs while going prone+strafe) that it ends up rewarding people way too much for simply wasting their time learning all kinds of details in-game. anyway, im starting to stray from the specific topic of stats. sorry if i am being too cynical for you guys but i dont mind bashing my favorite game for a second.
Last edited by Marinejuana (2007-02-26 20:14:26)
