Please REMOVE Crooked Numbers
It’s got to go, it’s just not fun. 15mph, then a rainbow putt line from 4 feet away, terrible courses, terrible greens. It’s like I can only play 3 days a week online if I’m lucky with these not fun ...
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@packattack04082 wrote:@Weyland4kI have an Xbox account of the same name, but I no longer play Xbox. I attached pictures of my pro/arcade and sim records in Stroke Play. I'm 426-9 in Pro and 96-0 in Arcade. This comes out to 522-9 in Pro/Arcade Settings and 348-9 in Sim but these aren't even ranked high on Playstation 5 leaderboards because I quit playing this mode many seasons ago. I hadn't checked these rankings in many months and I told you I thought I was somewhere near 500-5 and 522-9 is pretty close to that number. There are a lot of skilled players on Playstation, many of whom I've played against. I don't claim to be the best by any stretch, but I do have a very high winning percentage in all online modes. My only point was that wind on pro doesn't make it much harder than 1-2 mph in my opinion if you simply know how to spin the ball well. I've actually played countless rounds on Pro where I never had more than a 5 footer for the entire round. On sim, I've gotten used to making 10, 20, and even 30 foot putts relatively consistently because you are forced to learn how to truly putt by playing that mode when there aren't any beads or white lines showing you the way the putt moves. The white line can actually be a hindrance more than a help on lots of putts and I oftentimes don't look at it unless it's a long eagle putt on a driveable par 4. I've been playing the game for a full year already, so you can take my opinions with a grain of salt if you'd like.
My first post got deleted, not sure why, but I’ll give it another go.
I went back and looked, you did say Arcade, but big walls of text with no paragraphs are hard for me to read so I only saw Pro and tbh, I haven’t seen Arcade matches but I did leave for a while.
426-9-30 in 82 matches on Stroke Sim Pro does read differently than 500-5 to be honest. I’m sure if you played 99’s on Match Play your record might look a lot differently. Either way, those are good numbers, you’re a good player which brings me to my past point.
With a limited playlist feature online, the top 1% - 5% should not be catered to, at all. What you find challenging, the other 95% doesn’t. You have to be reasonable and think of others, speak the common tongue. For a game like this to succeed, units need to be sold, players need to want to want to play again and again. When the game is too hard, players don’t want to play.
At this high of frequency, Crooked Numbers should be removed or at least downsized exponentially.
Lastly, Pro matches are how it’s always been: birds and eagle as a baseline and the best to beat the best need to hole out. The top players on XBL do not hole out with a high frequency, they bird and eagle mostly. Holing out is the hardest thing to do in this game and it’s harder now than Tigers of the past.
