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@BaldWraithSimpI don't agree with this assumption of infinite growth = if I play a lot and fight a lot I will get stronger and score higher. In that case, all the bullies in the world would be world champions of martial arts.
In reality, your progress will always be relative to competition and win/success/score rate will always be a function of how much others progress.
Thus you might have a case where you train, fight yet keep losing or not winning more.
Getting back to my point - if you regularly experience a trend of ever-increasing "fun" from slicing through lobbies, especially in public games, then you have to ask yourself a question are you playing vs lower-ranked players and enjoy pushing them over or you are just a boy/girl genius who has infinite growth trend/super progress in comparison to similarly skilled players.
In my experience the "normal" curve in ranked games go something like this:
- you first come into the game and get owned, because you don't know anything about it, no fun at this point, just pain
- over time if you invest the time you get the basics down, at this point you start to feel like you at least belong, some fun starts to appear
- over longer time again investing time and targeted effort you go above "average" player in Apex terms that would probably be like lower Diamond rank, here I would say a player would reach the most fun per game
- then you hit the wall where you either don't have all the tools or information or both to go above and beyond in Apex terms - no set squad to play with daily, lack of competitive hardware, lack of information about the game mechanics like recoil etc., here again fun is close to 0, usually majority of players give up here
- for those who make it somehow past the previous point, I guess comes the top of the top-level (never been there) and satisfaction, the fun of being able to flex about it and objectively beat most of the players in-game on regular basis - must be fun for some.
The point where a player would flex in my opinion is only the last one, because you played them all, you won them all, if you can beat best of the best and have 4k 20 bomb game - sure flex away, you are the best, no doubt about it.
For those who flex before that flexing is always a moral decision as you always flex on the expense of someone who lost and those losers might be just new players/much weaker players = you kill their motivation, promote the community to flex on "kids" as streamers in Apex call everyone in the game nowadays.
@EshshshssNever said anything about 'infinite growth', the only way to get better is to take fights was my point. Those high scores are so rare, it takes seasons to even beat my last one. That's an achievement for me, that I performed better than I used to and it took so long to get there. I will surely make a post if I ever(no chance) get a legit 4k badge, same way I was happy about making it to diamond for the first time.
I kill someone, somebody else kills me. That's the point of the game, I don't feel any inferior if I see someone posting his high score(doubt anyone does). You are reading too much into it, in my opinion.
As for the new players/weak players, it's been suggested to limit demotion stacking since eternity in ranked(pubs is free for all). I would be overjoyed if they don't send me below Gold, would save me some time in my grind.
I really don't get the point of calling enemies kids, I squirmed when I hear zachmazer/tfue use it in every sentence
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