Need video existence?
6 years ago
Belgium

say yes pls it's important xD and can you make some categories all moon 1 world any% glitchless and more

United States

Yes you'll almost certainly need a video. Categories won't be made until sometime after the game is released.

Victoria, Australia

You will require recordings for runs until the mods can figure out a good time for when recordings are required

XenoSRL likes this
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

i'd say, you'd always need video proof. if someone doesnt want to fake wr, but still be on lb place 7 maybe, i think he still does have to proof his run legit. just my opinion.

California, USA

If the run is faster then the top 10 runs it needs video clearance.

Kentucky, USA

once the game gets alot of runners well decide

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

i think every time under 2h 50min needs vid proof

Belgium

honesltly i think EVERY run need video

AidanMse, Tigame and 2 others like this
United States

To be fair I don't think anyone cares if 841st place has a video or not.

The minigames will almost definitely require videos since you can be on Nintendo's leaderboard without one.

AidanMse likes this
United States

[quote]Whatever you set the threshold as, just means there are gonna be tons of runs intentionally submitted right below the threshold to pass through the lapse of video evidence not being required.[/quote] This doesn't happen nearly as often as you may think it does.

Zans64 likes this
New York, USA

Requiring video evidence is gonna put off a lot of players that are unable to record for whatever reason. The better way to get people playing is have a cutoff. Maybe top 25 I'd say.

DukeBaird likes this
Ohio, USA

I agree with FurryWulfz. I think video evidence is absolutely required for this game, and in my opinion, any game on Speedrun.com. Remember, Speedrun.com is a worldwide competitively RANKED leaderboard website. Twin Galaxies never accepted any run without video.

And I'm not particularly worried about players being put off by the video evidence rule. Those players can speedrun the game for their own self satisfaction and don't have to be ranked. In my opinion, no video = never happened.

People can buy capture devices for the same price as this game. If they have the money to buy this game, they have the money to buy a capture device. And if you wish to be taken seriously as a speedrunner, it's a worthwhile investment. Otherwise, people have cell phones, right?

Edited by the author 6 years ago
United States

Before Twitch (or even Justin.tv) existed, there weren't no stickin' website to keep track of all the records. There weren't people who speedran games for the glory, to get popular, to get world record; No, you had people who speedran games purely for the fun of it. This is something that's been forgotten and we're off worse as a result. Sure, if you claim to be 1st or otherwise have a really good time, evidence is certainly necessary when the other runners have it too. But by requiring people to have a video just to say they ran the game, you start shutting people out of the hobby. You can say it's easy these days to make a recording but not everyone has that luxury. If someone wants to put a last place run up with a bad time, even if it's without a video, and they say it's an actual speedrun attempt (and not a troll), just let them do it. No one is hurt in the process; don't play gatekeeper on that sort of stuff.

AidanMse, DukeBaird and 5 others like this
United States

[quote]it's pretty likely that a lot of people will submit fake runs just to be dicks and troll the system.[/quote] [quote]This doesn't happen nearly as often as you may think it does.[/quote]

Echo likes this
United States

Yes. Are there some annoying users? Sure, but they make themselves obvious. If the submissions don't inherently seem bad, no harm is done by adding them.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
Echo likes this
United States

https://www.speedrun.com/games

The point that's being missed here is that there's too much focus on leaderboards and not enough focus on community. It kills me when I'm too busy with other things to support someone streaming a niche game I'm really interested in seeing runs, especially when I've ran them myself. Talking to other runners about strategies is what really makes speedrunning a community, not a list of people who did better than the other. That's not to say it doesn't have it's value, but people have forgotten what speedrunning isn't all about that.

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Wisconsin, USA

i think once we get about 50 runs, we stop needing times for all of them, assuming 50 people will run this game, might be a bit high but you get the general idea, obviously if you get within like top 30% you need video evidence

United States

Yes I do believe runs will definitely need a video, but I agree what ROMaster2 is saying about this situation. When the catogories get set up and are ready, for the first few dozen runs submitted definitely need a video, but when this board starts getting more popular and people start submitting runs that are like #100 on the leaderboard or what ever the case may be I don’t see any issues with that run being accepted. But I do enjoy everyone’s opinions on this and seeing what people have to say!

Victoria, Australia

Can we just stop arguing?

People want to be part of the boards and cannot record runs, like me, I can stream but my switch is in the house, cannot record for my family’s privacy

Heaps of other people will have almost the same story.

End of story.

United States

Yeah same EchoSRs, we just need to lock this thread tbh because at the end of the day it’s going to be the moderators decision on what happens. End of discussion