Your ranking means nothing

[TheLakota]

6 minutes ago, Spaz said:

 

go to bed fam

[VoidVictorious]

20 hours ago, Spaz said:

The title will probably offend a few people who like to stack a lot of games. This is just my opinion. 

 

In my eyes, the leaderboards mean nothing. Your ranking means nothing. The only measures of the rankings are how long somebody plays every day and how long they’ve been hunting. 

 

I’m currently rank 7000 something and I didn’t even try to get to that ranking. I just play a lot of different games, although my pace has slowed down thanks to college studies and the overburden of work. 

 

I’ll make this brief. I don’t think many people care about their ranking, and that’s what matters because I played for rankings in the past and got burnt out on it. Fun and competing for rank don’t mix. 

 

The rankings equate to quantity over quality. It’s pointless, they mean nothing, and after playing for virtual achievements for many years I am considering quitting when I’m around 10,000 - 12,000 trophies. 

 

10,000 - 12,000 trophies with around 300 - 400 games can be admirable. Going for the high stage serves no purpose, it’s just extra padding. 

 

What do you all think?

I try to be positive when I see stuff like this, but your post seems to be intended to “stir the pot” or “poke the bear.”

 

I don’t know you, but you seem to try and provoke people or upset them with these kinds of posts.

 

There is a ton of negativity in the world. There is no need to try and purposely add to it. We are better than this.

 

Edited March 17, 2019 by VoidVictorious

[Vampirehunter145]

I sometimes look at my national and worldwide rank, i see how much i advance when i get some trophies and how much i get down because i don't have time to play (thank you job and academic degree) and i don't care that much. I see each trophy i unlock as a personal little success and i feel happy for it.

Edited March 17, 2019 by Vampirehunter145

[KaiserVendrix]

@Spaz

 

I love how I got a response to this out of everyone here, mainly because my opinion doesn't match yours. So even stating the fact this is your "opinion" gets thrown out the window. You can say it as many times as you like it won't change anything.

 

Yes people don't need to read your posts, but when we all see something negative on a site a lot of us visit often we normally have a good look to see what's it about. Some get concerned, some curious, others like to laugh and watch the thread burn because of the amount of drama this site can get. Shit we are only human at the end of the day.

 

I'm pretty tired of obvious things being said all the time, like it some ground breaking revolution. Is it going to stop any time soon? Nope. You may have some unpopular opinions but I've noticed along with others on here you have a reputation of just being a negative Nelly too.

 

I'll say this, yes you are right about people who only play games to boost their PSN level and their ranking will play whatever rubbish to do it. It's why we are seeing so much piss easy games because it's for those players. But it's their time and money, if they generally enjoy playing that way why do you need to ruin that for them? Because you don't agree with it? Didn't you say you're tired people like that and thought it was bullshit?

 

Gaming has gone much more further then just beating a game and telling your friends about it. We have a trophy system while some people will seek out the hardest games and conquer them, while other will play anything just to get their Platinum. We have speed runners, fighting game tournaments and other competitive events just for gaming. What I'm getting at is, we all play for different reasons. So if some guy wants to play Mayo a lot to inflate he's ranking, just let the guy do it. Is it hurting anyone? No.

 

 

 

 

Edited March 17, 2019 by KaiserVendrix

[Guest]

World and Country's not enoughhhh! we need a State rank!!! Or a Town rank! Give me more statistics!! yeahhh baby.

Edited March 17, 2019 by ERGOPROXY-DECAY

[Katt]

 

nuke this, thanks.

[FawltyPowers]

Leaderboards are exactly the same as trophies themselves.

 

They're meant as a bit of fun, it's up to you how serious you take them.

 

As to my opinion. I don't mind having a leaderboard, it's a nice feature, that's all. The idea of basing the games I play on raising my rank is an alien concept to me.

[jaehyun1009]

Personally find the "I'm rank 7000 something but I didn't even try lol" remark quite amusing as if you had to include that little bit of info on a post where you claim you don't care about ranking.

[HellMoodCole]

22 hours ago, KaiserVendrix said:

I love it when people make threads about pointing out the obvious, have you honestly just realised this right now? If you really want to be negative about something why don’t you just say everything is pointless because we all will die in the end? That way you cover everything and pointless threads can stop.

So everything that has an end is automatically pointless? Every movie is pointless because it has an end? The life of Albert Einstein was completly pointless because he died? If you had one of the best days of your life yesterday, does that mean it's pointless today?

I know OP's pretty provoking. But I don't think he meant that leaderboard is pointless, because everything is pointless in a metaphysical sense. The leaderboard basically says nothing. It doesn't even say anything about people, just about accounts. You don't need skill to be on top. You don't even need commitment or time, just money. Usually you need something that others don't have to be at the top of a leaderboard. But in this case, it's just money you need.

[Sinastran]

Feels like this should have been a status update.

[Nitro]

16 hours ago, Demon--Prototype said:

@Nitro He makes these threads for the reaction/attention. Probably has no social aspect in his life, so this is it for him. What is so cringe, is how bad he wants it. But simply doesn’t have what it takes to get there, so he feels the need to bring others down to his level.

 

@Spaz Your opinion means nothing.

 

People work their ass off to be at the ranking they’re at, not to mention their completion and rarity at the same time. I’ve roasted you in a previous thread about this, yet you still feel the need to air your drivel on here. 

 

What’s funny is that you generally don’t hear from the heavy hitters, but in your case (a nobody) “oh look at me, I’m hitting the breaking point”  "oh look at me, im hardcore, i finished Dead Space 2" seriously just crawl back in your hole mate.

 

Your desperation for attention is nauseating.

Well said.

[TheLakota]

2 hours ago, SinisterPledge said:

Feels like this should have been a status update.

 

/thread

[UlvenFenrir]

people question me why i bother going to the gym at 10pm at night where everyone else is tired. people ask me how im still on 3+ years with no sugar, people ask me how i lost 25kg, people ask me what keeps me motivated. i dont compete against others, i only compete against myself. you have one life to live, make the best out of it. as long as trophies and challenges exist, ill keep doing it. same with my gym life. 

 

i love doing things other wont do because the results and rewards is all worth it in the end. when you taste the rush you get, you will never quit, you just keep on going. 

 

i dont care about leaderboards.

Edited March 17, 2019 by UlvenFenrir

[Deluziion90]

I just use my rank to show my irl friends how big my noodle is and just show off.

 

It's all fun and games in the end.

[R123Rob]

If you have no other problems.

[Baker]

I really don’t get all this hate towards @Spaz. I think he is right. Although there are plenty of similar threads like this so I kind of think it wasn’t necessary. I don’t really care about the leaderboards myself, as I see it as swimming against an uphill stream, I get surpassed all the time by people who stack the Ezpz games. I try to remain in the top 100 of my country, but it’s a matter of time before I drop out of it again, which wouldn’t bother me at all. I’m more impressed by which games people played, than their leaderboard ranking. So a shout out to the UR hunters, Although not my thing, very impressive!

[KaiserVendrix]

3 hours ago, BigBossImBeamer said:

So everything that has an end is automatically pointless? Every movie is pointless because it has an end? The life of Albert Einstein was completly pointless because he died? If you had one of the best days of your life yesterday, does that mean it's pointless today?

I know OP's pretty provoking. But I don't think he meant that leaderboard is pointless, because everything is pointless in a metaphysical sense. The leaderboard basically says nothing. It doesn't even say anything about people, just about accounts. You don't need skill to be on top. You don't even need commitment or time, just money. Usually you need something that others don't have to be at the top of a leaderboard. But in this case, it's just money you need.

 

I thought I was pretty clear with my sarcasm but I guess it's hard to pick up online, I'm not being serious with the whole "everything is pointless" comment.  The said OP it means nothing, is pointless and nothing all that different? I was only saying because I see a lot of negativity, we all love this hobby for one reason or another.

 

While I agree with rankings in my opinion dose mean nothing since I got to word it that way. I don't think creating another thread about it when the topic has been done to death already honestly helps. While to me and you it's nothing or pointless, others don't see it that way and use the board as a way to motivate themselves. Trying to be the best and all that, it's harmless and if it's what they want to do then just let them.

[Jun_Kazama316]

On 16/03/2019 at 9:22 AM, AJ_-_808 said:

I cringe when I think about how much time spent and/or shit games people at the top go through just to pad their rank. 

 

It's pointless really to waste so much money on something no one will care about in the end.

[VoidVictorious]

1 hour ago, BB-BakkerJ said:

I really don’t get all this hate towards @Spaz. I think he is right. Although there are plenty of similar threads like this so I kind of think it wasn’t necessary. I don’t really care about the leaderboards myself, as I see it as swimming against an uphill stream, I get surpassed all the time by people who stack the Ezpz games. I try to remain in the top 100 of my country, but it’s a matter of time before I drop out of it again, which wouldn’t bother me at all. I’m more impressed by which games people played, than their leaderboard ranking. So a shout out to the UR hunters, Although not my thing, very impressive!

Everyone for the most part in this thread aside from Spaz has been pretty thoughtful and optimistic in their posts.

 

Bottom line, I have no problem with Spaz personally. I don’t know him. However it is disappointing that I have never seen him say one positive or nice thing to anybody or about anything on this site.

 

Spaz, read the room. You are on a statistics based website posting about how you don’t like statistics. If you don’t like it here, leave.

 

 

 

 

[Shadiochao]

2 hours ago, BB-BakkerJ said:

I really don’t get all this hate towards @Spaz. I think he is right. Although there are plenty of similar threads like this so I kind of think it wasn’t necessary. I don’t really care about the leaderboards myself, as I see it as swimming against an uphill stream, I get surpassed all the time by people who stack the Ezpz games. I try to remain in the top 100 of my country, but it’s a matter of time before I drop out of it again, which wouldn’t bother me at all. I’m more impressed by which games people played, than their leaderboard ranking. So a shout out to the UR hunters, Although not my thing, very impressive!

 

Because he's coming here to announce that people shouldn't care about trophy leaderboards as if he's doing us all a favour by imparting his divine wisdom. It'd be different if he posted on a thread that already existed asking whether it's meaningful or not, but he's gone out of his way to make sure everybody knows what he thinks about this, unprovoked.

 

Quite frankly, I don't think many people care what he thinks. I'm not sure there was an audience of people waiting to hear this guy's opinion, so it didn't really warrant its own thread. Maybe if it was phrased in a different way it could've gone better, rather than him just stating some controversial thoughts and essentially fleeing the thread. But from what I've seen in this thread, he often posts negative opinions to try and rile up trophy hunters like this, so I guess it's going exactly as planned.

 

It just makes no sense to make a thread on a site that largely focuses on this thing and tell them all it's a waste of time. It'd be like going to a cooking forum and saying "Hey guys, you guys shouldn't really be baking cakes because I think you could be cooking something better with your time". Who cares? Nobody asked.

[Sikutai]

On ‎17‎.‎03‎.‎2019 at 8:27 AM, ERGOPROXY-DECAY said:

World and Country's not enoughhhh! we need a State rank!!! Or a Town rank! Give me more statistics!! yeahhh baby.

My Wish is one Trophy List for all Plattforms. I meant one for Xbox, PS and Nintendo (Google etc.)

Edited March 18, 2019 by Sega-Ryudo

[Baker]

36 minutes ago, Shadiochao said:

 

Because he's coming here to announce that people shouldn't care about trophy leaderboards as if he's doing us all a favour by imparting his divine wisdom. It'd be different if he posted on a thread that already existed asking whether it's meaningful or not, but he's gone out of his way to make sure everybody knows what he thinks about this, unprovoked.

 

Quite frankly, I don't think many people care what he thinks. I'm not sure there was an audience of people waiting to hear this guy's opinion, so it didn't really warrant its own thread. Maybe if it was phrased in a different way it could've gone better, rather than him just stating some controversial thoughts and essentially fleeing the thread. But from what I've seen in this thread, he often posts negative opinions to try and rile up trophy hunters like this, so I guess it's going exactly as planned.

 

It just makes no sense to make a thread on a site that largely focuses on this thing and tell them all it's a waste of time. It'd be like going to a cooking forum and saying "Hey guys, you guys shouldn't really be baking cakes because I think you could be cooking something better with your time". Who cares? Nobody asked.

I see your point. But this is an open forum in which everyone should be able to say their opinion. I’ve been on this site for a long time, and yes, sometimes he could be a bit annoying but I still don’t understand the hate against him. I’ve seen more awfull threads, anyway, that’s just my point of view...

[Nitro]

1 hour ago, BB-BakkerJ said:

I see your point. But this is an open forum in which everyone should be able to say their opinion. I’ve been on this site for a long time, and yes, sometimes he could be a bit annoying but I still don’t understand the hate against him. I’ve seen more awfull threads, anyway, that’s just my point of view...

Read my post (I think it's on page 2). I pretty much said that all he posts is negative and toxic to the community. That's why he gets so much hate, because no one wants to read toxic posts when they come onto a website to enjoy their hobby and talk with like minded people.

And, from the look of things, my opinion isn't alone.

Edited March 17, 2019 by Nitro

[XXIIlII]

OP is about to quit trophy hunting so he probably said hmm let's trigger some people before i leave this place.

Personally, i don't care about the completion rate. If a certain game is impossible to plat but its fun then i'll still play it.

Edited March 17, 2019 by CrazyRap

[Sicho]

Remember back in the day, when Arcade machines had high scores? They also meant "nothing" as in they aren't important and won't solve any of the worlds problems or whatever... but we loved to be on them anyway. In the realm of entertainment, high scores can be a means to compete or to be entertained. Same with Trophy ranks. Like with many forms of entertainment, it's what you yourself make out of it. Trophy ranks might never be important in the big picture of humanity, but for an individual, it can be important.

 

You never know the stories behind profiles and players. Maybe someone had a bad accident and was bed ridden for months and trophy hunting gave him something to do, something he enjoyed doing while forgetting his bad situation. Maybe someone is going through a divorce and trying to climb a trophy leaderboard provides him with enough distraction to forget about his problems.

I mean I heard lots of stories in my life where people claim that a music album (or a particular artist), a book, a movie etc. got them through tough times. The same is true for videogames, for all forms of entertainment actually. Some people get inspired, motivated, soothed or distracted by all kinds of entertainment like watching sports, reading books, listening to music and playing games.

 

Also, humans are collector's by nature. Collecting virtual trophies is no different to collecting stamps or Funko Pop Figures or movies or passport stamps or fancy USB sticks...

 

Leaderboards don't mean shit in the big, wide universe we are in. But they may mean a lot to individual persons for various reasons. It's ok if they don't mean anything to you, OP, they don't have to and you shouldn't feel like you have to find some meaning in them. Just accept that while they mean nothing to you, it can be different for other people and these people aren't "wrong" and you aren't more "right" than they are.

 

I personally don't really "hunt" trophies. But I like collecting them. And I have a friendly competition with a friend, who has way more plats than I have and I vouched that one day, I'll catch up on him. It's just 4 fun and I won't suddenly start playing games I don't like just to collect trophies. But it's a kind of "meta" motivation to complete more of my games than I usually do. There's nothing in it, I won't win anything other than bragging rights when I finally catch up to him but videogames in general are "a waste of time", trophies are just a part of it  And I put "waste of time" in quotes because in my opinion, if someone is having a good time, the time isn't wasted  Whatever it is he's doing.

 

(P.S.: since I live in a very small country, I'm trying to get into the Top 50 Country Rank here on PSNProfiles. Again, just 4 fun because even if I would reach number 1 in my country or worldwide, it wouldn't make me important or whatever... but it's a fun form of competition. And not all competition has to be for "gains", being entertained while competing is the goal )

Edited March 17, 2019 by Sicho