Guild Wars 2

Socialism has got to be one of the biggest plagues man has ever released on this world. And same goes for gaming.

I know it’s cruel, but experience teaches that sometimes being cruel but just is the least cruel thing you can do in the long run.

So how about we forget all these pip gain/loss intricacies and go with simple “win is a point, loss is one point lost” and make sure matchmaking keeps us facing ppl around our own level, progressively matching us against better opponents if we keep winning, or weaker ones if we keep losing.

No exceptions, no complex algorithms, good old plain law of the jungle.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

Socialism has got to be one of the biggest plagues man has ever released on this world.

WTF? Educate yourself more.

With such a statement you have be 13 years old and lived your whole live in one of those town where there is still confederate flags hanging around.

I have. And i live in socialist country so i know all too well.

While I don’t particularly like the pip system, and don’t particularly like socialism, I can’t for the life of me see how socialism has anything to do with the pip system.

ZeftheWicked.3076:

… and make sure matchmaking keeps us facing ppl around our own level …

That is the problem, right there.

Crinn.7864:

While I don’t particularly like the pip system, and don’t particularly like socialism, I can’t for the life of me see how socialism has anything to do with the pip system.

Giving out pips depending on some centrally programmed mystery meat alghorithms that make nearly every combination of pips possible with almost any combination of results (like pips for losing, or losing pips for winning), just like in socialism it’s they who decide how much money you get to keep and who gets “government” (read: robbed via outrageous taxation) money, and who is left in the dirt.

Simple winners gain, losers lose (duh) leaves things clear, simple and without any attempts to cheat around the centrally programmed mystery meat algorithms.