New changes for the PC runs and leaderboards
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6 years ago
Tokyo, Japan

nice work, dara.

all japanese players think you are a god.

merci beaucoup.

name:komakino

Mongolia

Seperating the japanese and chinese versions is the most retarded change ever.

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Sweden

@Orchlon How so? This change doesnt affect anyone at all in a negative way. The most retarded goes to the reason why and how China got added in the first place.

Mongolia

It splits the competition unnecessarily, and gives the impression that the chinese and the japanese are different enough that it warrants seperating it, which they aren't.

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Japan

@orchlon1

Although there are many points that the Chinese version and the Japanese version have in common, on the other hand, there are significant differences in elements related to the superiority of game play, I think there are aspects that can be said to be quite different games.

Therefore, I think that the categorization of this time is reasonable.

Of course, I think that you are still a great runner.

Mongolia

Console versions have significant enough differences from PC where it warrants seperating the leaderboards, this does not. The difference between is 13 seconds? That's a figure I've heard frequently cited.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Chile

@orchlon1 No, the difference is 30-40 seconds between JPN and CHN version

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Chile

Also when CHN version came out, every person got a "free PB" just because of CHN over JPN texts. It was unfair all the time and the leaderboard change doesn't affect anything, they were just separated and people can play jpn and chn versions without any problem.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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England

Well i mean if you have no intrest in the japanese mediakite version you don't even need to look at that part of the leaderboard.

It's that simple.

Also it doesn't split competition because the 2 versions can't compete against eachother. This change has been a long time coming and should've been this way when china was first introduced.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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Ceará, Brazil

The changes of the leaderboard it was necessary cause everyone knows wich is the diferences from each other.To me it is interesting new possibilities of runs.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United Kingdom

This wouldn't even have needed to happen had some kind of vote for Chinese being done around the time it was found.

Instead it was just stealthily added to the boards without a word, even so to the point that some illegitimate, modified versions (non-EA) got added into the mix.

Chinese being added into the mix also literally split the competition between the Japanese and the West. It was made clear a lot of Japanese players would not touch the Chinese version on account of:

  1. It being nearly, if not, impossible to buy. There's simply too many bootlegs on the market, on top of it being rare as fuck as is. Also, it was extremely difficult to prove its legitimacy, and mods have still been getting questionable runs done on various different Chinese versions submitted to them.

  2. Piracy laws being much stronger over there than the West.

All the split did was give fairness between the two versions. Like Steven said, if you don't wanna run Japanese, then continue running China as is. No one is stopping you, nor is this change.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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Mongolia

30-40 seconds difference? That's a straight up lie. Maybe between the Chinese and US version.

I'm not against having a japanese leaderboard, I'm against splitting the leaderboard. You can have a japanese only leaderboard all you want, but change the existing Chinese leaderboard into an Any region leaderboard and put all the runs back in, so even if people are unwilling to run the chinese version, they should still be able to compete.

Edit: I'm not complaining because this change affects me directly, but it definitely keeps potential competition away from me.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
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Sweden

So move the only 2 runs on the entire board (1US and 1EU) to the China tab? and then I guess change the names to PC and PC (JPN) ?

also I wanna point out that these 2 runs are the only nonjapanese/chinese Ive seen in like 4 years iirc

Im I understanding this correctly? cause it seems like you think there are loads of non japanese runs on the JPN board atm.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Mongolia

No, put every run, including japanese into the main PC category, and make the JPN category exclusive to japanese only. If I could only play the japanese version, I'd still want to be on the main leaderboards with the handicap. As difficult it may be, it is possible to get WR with the japanese version, and even more so to get a good time like sub 42.

Mongolia

To clarify, japanese runs would exist on both the PC and PC (JPN) tab, assuming that's how they're named

England

What?

So runs on mediakite would be on both?

Why

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Mongolia

Well the mods shouldn't have to duplicate everything I guess, but people who choose to compete with the japanese version should be allowed to submit to the main board.

United Kingdom

They can submit though.

There is no 'main board'.

Mongolia

What do you mean they can? They can't, the way it is now chinese runs go into the chinese leaderboard and japanese runs go into the japanese leaderboard.