Just for something to strike up some conversation. What does the xboxamerica community think. I recently posted this blog on my TA page:
"So Ive noticed alot lately via various friend feeds that there are a "ton" of people jumping on the "high TA ratio gaming list". Did they ever stop to think about why the TA ratio is so high? Is it because they will be spending the next 6 weeks of their life grinding out an achievement? Is it because it is a game that requires a higher skill level then they actually have? A game maybe that requires "x" amound of people to do an online achievement? Are there glitched achievements or servers no longer running?
Are you really that much cooler or a better skilled gamer then someone else when you played a game for a month straight with say a 3000+ TA ratio but yet had to have 6 people commit just as much of their life to "help" you with that same game? If you play a game for a month straight and it is worth 3000 TA points and it takes you and 5 people that entire month to reach the full 3000 then you should you only get 600 TA points as it took you "AND" 5 other people a few hundred hours a piece of boosting to reach that mark, you didnt "earn" the full 3000 or did you? Now I understand TA is a site that revolves around boosting games Im not questioning the validation of the site but should you be rewarded as high for boosting a game as someone who did it all solo or with 1 or 2 boosted achievements? TA takes the difficulty of an achievement and the number of people who have the achievement and thus creating a score for each achievement. If you need 100 kills with a rifle and have a game with 8 people and 7 are standing there letting the 8th shoot them does that make the achievement really that difficult compared to someone playing in a game with 7 randoms and should it have such a high score or ratio? Lets take the "retirement savings plan" achievement in Army of Two...if I played that game religiously because I am a big FPS nut and earned it playing randoms night in and night out, and you boosted it for 3 weeks just standing still and shooting one another, is your achievement as impressive as mine? If I am a better strategy based gamer (say Halo Wars) then you and finish a game by myself and you boosted most if not all the mp achievements should you be rewarded to the extent that I was or be penalized because you arent as good at RTS games as the next guy?
Should you be playing a game that has a higher skill level in terms of completing then what you yourself is capable of completing on your own and do you feel that you deserve the full rewards for the time and effort involved compared to those who had the skill do to it solo in maybe less time? How does your gamertag reflect you as a gamer?"
So what does the xboxamerica community think...should/do people feel like they are a better gamer then someone because they sat and ground game after game after game for months on end? With that being said I can say for example that in Gears of War I would feel comfortable in my ability to hold my own in the mp, in L4D/L4D2 I suck!
"So Ive noticed alot lately via various friend feeds that there are a "ton" of people jumping on the "high TA ratio gaming list". Did they ever stop to think about why the TA ratio is so high? Is it because they will be spending the next 6 weeks of their life grinding out an achievement? Is it because it is a game that requires a higher skill level then they actually have? A game maybe that requires "x" amound of people to do an online achievement? Are there glitched achievements or servers no longer running?
Are you really that much cooler or a better skilled gamer then someone else when you played a game for a month straight with say a 3000+ TA ratio but yet had to have 6 people commit just as much of their life to "help" you with that same game? If you play a game for a month straight and it is worth 3000 TA points and it takes you and 5 people that entire month to reach the full 3000 then you should you only get 600 TA points as it took you "AND" 5 other people a few hundred hours a piece of boosting to reach that mark, you didnt "earn" the full 3000 or did you? Now I understand TA is a site that revolves around boosting games Im not questioning the validation of the site but should you be rewarded as high for boosting a game as someone who did it all solo or with 1 or 2 boosted achievements? TA takes the difficulty of an achievement and the number of people who have the achievement and thus creating a score for each achievement. If you need 100 kills with a rifle and have a game with 8 people and 7 are standing there letting the 8th shoot them does that make the achievement really that difficult compared to someone playing in a game with 7 randoms and should it have such a high score or ratio? Lets take the "retirement savings plan" achievement in Army of Two...if I played that game religiously because I am a big FPS nut and earned it playing randoms night in and night out, and you boosted it for 3 weeks just standing still and shooting one another, is your achievement as impressive as mine? If I am a better strategy based gamer (say Halo Wars) then you and finish a game by myself and you boosted most if not all the mp achievements should you be rewarded to the extent that I was or be penalized because you arent as good at RTS games as the next guy?
Should you be playing a game that has a higher skill level in terms of completing then what you yourself is capable of completing on your own and do you feel that you deserve the full rewards for the time and effort involved compared to those who had the skill do to it solo in maybe less time? How does your gamertag reflect you as a gamer?"
So what does the xboxamerica community think...should/do people feel like they are a better gamer then someone because they sat and ground game after game after game for months on end? With that being said I can say for example that in Gears of War I would feel comfortable in my ability to hold my own in the mp, in L4D/L4D2 I suck!
