Stat Wars, time for some honesty

[Helwyr]

Can we start speaking honestly for once about the whole Stat discussion in PS2?

* Stats can be fun and informative, no stat is a problem in itself. It's how stats are used that can lead to problems.

* No Statistic is going to be universally accepted as a measure of a players skill or lack of skill in PS2.

* Most of the people claiming one stat or another is the best one for showing player skill are doing so because it favors the way they play or want the game to be played. They want their favored stat to be the primary one displayed so that they can claim it as official SOE endorsement of their playstyle as being the most or only legitimate one.

* SOE has cornered themselves into having to have some primary stat to compare players because of their desire to integrate Esports into PS2.

* None of this is going to help make PS2 a better game like PS1 was with more deep gameplay. You could even remove stats altogether and it wouldn't alone bring back the focus on Faction vs Faction objectives because players will always be chasing EXP/Certs in PS2 as it unlike PS1 does not have any cap on Battlerank/Certs.

What's the solution?

The community needs to ask that what stats are shown is configurable by the individual player and for SOE to remove the leader board.

This will allow players to decide for themselves which stats are important to them without getting any SOE endorsement of any particular view point, which will be very diverse. It will also force SOE to move away from trying to fit PS2 in with Esports which from these threads arguing over stats that determine who's a good player already demonstrates that such a pairing is dysfunctional.

Most importantly it will hopefully help both players and developers refocus on what Planetside is really about Massive persistent Faction vs Faction warfare and focus on making that a reality in PS2. Which for the developers is to give PS2 the deep meta game it currently lacks.