Originally Posted by Goldoche
The problem with your analysis is that there's nothing that proves that the 2 hypothetical weapons were used just as long. For example, the ZN could be a very good weapon stat-wise but the devs botched the model and textures. Players got 2 quick kills on average with it and switched to something else. The AX on the other hand could be an UP weapon but with fantastic effects, textures and model. Players prefer to us it even if its stats suck. It could have an individual player 2, 3, 4 times as much time to equalize the amount of kills he could have got with the ZN.
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Those effects wash out over large numbers of players, and over large periods of time. The guy that can't stand crappy texture won't be coming back to pollute the numbers anymore. If you really, really want a per hour number, I re-iterate: Divide the kill number by what you see at the bottom of the readout, "hours", or hit up ps2-stats. I am not doing the same analysis.