"strat hoarding" is very frowned upon. By keeping your strats secret, you are withholding information that would help other runners, giving the hoarder an unfair advantage. People who do hoard strats are usually doing so to just get a world record, which goes against the spirit of speedrunning. Speedrunning is a competition, but it's not a zero sum game. By sharing a strategy, everybody in a community benefits, so there's no downside to sharing. Keeping it secret is just toxic. Additionally, in order to keep strategies secret, people can't upload videos of their times, which means that the world record probably won't have any proof as a result. And worst of all, if someone stops running a game while hoarding a strategy, the community might never find out what the strategy was. I know a guy who said he would keep his strategy secret until someone beat one of his times on 60hz (most world records in this game were done on 144hz). Recently, a runner managed to beat him on 60hz, and the hoarder FORGOT what his strategy was, meaning we'll probably never know what he did.
[quote=Merl_]there's no downside to sharing[/quote] There is, that people can easily beat you [quote=Merl_]which means that the world record probably won't have any proof as a result[/quote] Only a thing about 50 years ago. Now, most runs are required to have a video
[quote]There is, that people can easily beat you[/quote]
That's not a downside, you shouldn't be speedrunning for the sole purpose of getting a world record. The competition aspect of speedrunning is only a small part of what speedrunning is about, and by hoarding your strategies you not only prevent top runners from pushing the games they run to their limits, you also prevent people who won't ever go for world record from achieving their goal times.
If you don't want people to easily beat you, try getting good. [quote]Only a thing about 50 years ago. Now, most runs are required to have a video[/quote] ...50 years ago? Like in the 1970s?
Also, recently there was a splatoon runner who refused to record videos of his runs because he wanted to have the world record. His runs couldn't be "verified" but he still kept them secret. It doesn't matter that runs are "required" to have video if people are perfectly content to just not have their run verified.
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