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MUD2MMO : Playing the Scoreboard (Statistics and MMO players)

Statisitcs do not tell a complete story. In fact 51.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot. I may have made that up.
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Published: Aug 14, 2013 06:20 pm

When I used to play sports, we had a phrase called “playing the scoreboard.” It was the art of knowing how many points you needed to advance in a tournament, and only playing to get that many points and not playing to necessarily win the game. I see parallels in MMO’s, but slightly different. People play to score maximum points, but not necessarily to win the game. This is about that.

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I'm a gamer. I'm a reality junkie. I'm a cynic. I'm a dinosaur. I'm a writer. I'm so much more than a paragraph can say. You want more? Ok. I started a video game show on the internet some time ago. See, I've played video games since Intellivision and Atari 2600 and PONG back in the day. Retro-gaming doesn't really fire me up as much as seeing how the community ticks. And after seeing way too many "I'm too young to have played this game when it first came out but it MAKES ME SO ANGRY" reviewers who would happily eviscerate my childhood for lulz... yeah I tossed my hat into the ring. the quickly scooped it back up, I'm told I have a bald spot that needs covering. Outside of gaming... yes I go outside shut up... I like to play paintball when I can. I snowboard a lot, when I can. I go mountain biking, when I can... seeing a trend yet? I prefer reality to video games, but at 4 AM it's hard to find a paintball game going on. Lately I livestream a lot, playing video games for an audience.