BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!INCSOC wrote:
How does it affect you trying to get your shiny bits of pixels?Sgt.Jimmie wrote:
lol, tbh stat paddin makes it unfair on the rest of us who actually earn their medals... i laught at people when they say ''can someone help me get k nife badge'' lol cant you fukers just earn it??
Fact 1: Badges are just little digital bits of data that EA gives you with a false sense of accomplishment, in hopes to keep you playing for hours and hours.
Fact 2: Other people's badges in no way reflect on your stats nor do they give them any advantage over other players
Fact 3: Earning a select few badges the "honest" way improves YOUR skill while using the specific weapon/kit/vehicle
Fact 4: Earning every single badge and medal only proves that you have a LOT of spare time and probably need to get a better hobby. It doesn't guarantee that you're "1337" or whatever else you want to call it, because the only REAL requirement on any of those is HOURS of play using whatever.
While i do not promote "statpadding", I could not care less if others did it. I bought this game and i would like to play it how I want to play. In my case sometimes I play to get some award, sometimes to fly, other times i want to be in a squad, and a lot of times I set strange "unproductive" objectives that i accomplish during my game. Sometimes those objectives include TKing a whole bunch of people
I'll give you another good example of an objective that I once set for myself (and completed mind you). [Kill every single person on the server (including your team) at least once during one round.] Took me a few rounds and a few servers (damn kicks) but i did it. I think THAT deserves a medal. Spending 100 hours in a tank proves nothing. Here's another great one, [Hunt down and kill a specific player (opposite team) at least 10 times during one game, every kill using a different weapon.]
In anycase, play the game how you like it, there're thousands of servers. If you don't like how the game is being played on one of them... chances are they don't like you either... you don't have to stay. Find one that you like.
Give this man a medal/badge/ribbon.
Congrats mate, you summed it up nicely.