As I was drifting off to sleep the other night, my mind wandered onto the topic of players being banned for stat padding while engaging in organized game play. All of a sudden, like a freight train hurling through my temples, I thought to myself, "Holly hell, is this the Twilight Zone?".
The issue I am referring to is, of course, being discussed on that Reddit thing
here and started with a quote from that Twitter thing,
After a couple of replies on my view of the topic on the official forums (pity me for going there...), I finally formulated what I believe is the thrust of my initial thoughts on the matter
here. I shall quote,
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I Wrote:
Cheating and organizing games with your friends are entirely different concepts, which is what SOE fails to understand. Organized play in PS2 is only cheating, because SOE chooses to put a stats database ahead of player's ability to control their environment and organize themselves.
Think of it terms of a sports league and you'll see how crazy SOE is being by lumping people who want to "game the system" together with people who just want to play the game in an enjoyable manner. If sports teams didn't organize players and schedule events, the whole ecosystem of their game would be chaotic and unsuccessful. If leagues were only able to organize their own team and never schedule events with other teams, simply waiting around on the field for random times when another team might show up, then neither the league nor its fan would stick around very long.
Organized multi faction events are pretty much the best "meta game" that could ever happen in Planetside 2. If the stats and battle rank systems are getting in the way of that, then the stats and battle ranks should be removed, not the player organized game play.
I feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone when SOE and some players come out with this stuff, like punishing people for playing the game together...
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Seriously, I ... I just don't know what to say at this point, I am astoundingly flabbergasted by SOE's approach to this topic.
If anything should be encouraged in Planetside 2, it should be the epic amount of community building that happens with player run events! 100% of the content in Planetside 2 is "other people" and making the game fun for people is hands down the best way to hammer home how and why the game is amazing and unique in the market.
I just don't get it. Is SOE
that in love with their MLG stats pro gamer esports stuff that they're willing to actively punish players for playing the game together? That's a sad thing, right? I'm not crazy for thinking so, am I?
Like... "what the actual fuck?", as the kids would say these days.