YayMii wrote:
The PP system is designed to be farmable to the point of saturation (as in, at lower ranks you can actually rank up simply by playing more), so for most players, the only thing it really measures is effort. Maybe I exaggerated a bit by saying "close to the top", but I've seen at least a few players that aren't as high in rank as their skill indicates, simply because they don't want to spend time getting S-ranks on maps that don't challenge them (then again, it's called a performance rank for a reason... If they don't want to make performance-worthy scores, it's their fault. But that's besides the point).
Also, focusing solely on being better than others could potentially stress you out and that could potentially cause demotivation. I've been there, it really sucks.
If someone isn't spending the effort to gain the plays to indicate their skill, then they don't deserve whatever rank they might be and you shouldn't assume their skill until proven otherwise in multi/spectator/whatever. It's not that the people at say, 2k deserve to be lower because some people below them don't work as hard. Those other people should be higher and the ones at 2k deserve the exact amount of pp they worked for. Why should you criticise a system for failing to account for people who aren't trying? Assume I'm the best chess player in the world or something but I never show up to tournaments and only play in parks. Why the fuck should the world at large recognise my skill when I don't bother to win ranked games to raise my rating and just stick to myself?
If you're comparing yourself to others pp wise, then you're comparing yourselves by your BEST plays. By your BEST accomplishments - not your general skill level. I see nothing wrong with this.
You only get ~416 pp simply by playing new maps, and this takes something like 10,000 maps? That's sort of inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. 2,000pp is ~36,000 rank and 3,000pp is ~13,000.
YayMii wrote:
Also, focusing solely on being better than others could potentially stress you out and that could potentially cause demotivation. I've been there, it really sucks.
I guess this depends on who you are. I feel it sometimes but don't care and just keep playing; I'm still here.