Brian,(posted 9283 days ago)I couldn't have put it better myself. In the early days of MARP (pre leaderboard that is) nobody cared about how many games they submitted on. All they cared about what showing their skills on games they excelled at. I've been accused of being elitist before but that's what MARP was all about. Since the advent of the leaderboard, every Beta release there has been a rush of scores (myself included initially) just to try and maintain leaderboard points.
Today on #marp there were at least 3 of us who haven't been submitting much to MARP recently due to not seeing a point when all anyone is interested in these days is leaderboard points.
As for marathon games, my vote is to keep them. If people want to spend hours just to reclaim a 1st position that is their choice. Will I try to reclaim it if QRS or someone beats my Gyruss score? Probably I will eventually and if today is anything to go by I'll do it on maximum difficulty to boot and to hell with what anyone thinks about it being a waste of time spending 5, 10 or 20 hours doing it or whether it's just a test of stamina rather than skill - you've gotta have the skill before you can do the samina anyways.
BeeJay.