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I do agree that the leaderboards definitely need to be reviewed.First, I think the leaderboards should be split by platform. One for PC, one for Mobile, one for PS4, etc. Or at the very least, give us an option to filter by platform.Second, a lot of the top scores need to be looked at with a critical eye. The all-time boards are almost entirely dominated by PC players, and it's very common for those scores to be well above everyone else. And while I certainly understand that some people are very skilled at pinball, there are quite a few top scores that are on PC and so far ahead of even the rest of the top 5 that it smells....fishy at best. Most of them are dominated by one player, and a good chunk of his scores are absurdly ahead of even second place. I did a quick rundown of 40 leaderboards, basically going alphabetically starting at AC/DC and going to Ghostbusters. Of those 40 tables:67% of top 5 positions are taken by PC players. Another 16% are taken by mobile players. PC (and in some cases, mobile) players are able to outscore other players by at least double on 17 tables. In 12 of those 17 cases, top PC players were able to average 4-5X the score of top non-PC players. In 3 cases, the scores were so ridiculously ahead of non-PC players, I cannot believe they were achieved without using some kind of cheat/hack/exploit. In 8 of the top 40 tables, console players were unable to even make the top 10. In another 6 cases, only one player was able to make the top 10. In most of these cases, these are the same tables where PC and/or mobile players are able to outscore console players by at least 2X or more.The same player (I won't mention who he is, but you can look him up yourself) is in the top 5 in 37 of the 40 tables. He is in first place on 21 of those 37 tables. Of the 3 tables he is not in the top 5 on, he seems to have not played them at all.I'd be willing to bet that anyone who wanted to take the time to cover the rest of the tables would find similar results. It's pretty obvious that PC players have an advantage. Whether that's because the PC tables play differently in a way that is beneficial to PC players, or if they're using some kind of cheat/hack/exploit, I have no idea. But comparing PC players to console players by having them on the same leaderboard is simply not a fair comparison. Each section should have their own leaderboard. Any time a PC player posts a top score that is orders of magnitude above other scores, it should be looked at with a critical eye. Central Park has a PC player's score above a million, where other top scorers have scores in the 25k range, for example. There are several others. Scores that do not appear to be legitimate should be removed. Any time the physics of a table changes to make it more difficult, the leaderboards for the affected platform(s) should be reset. It's very possible that old scores under the old rules are now unachievable due to the new physics.
I do agree that the leaderboards definitely need to be reviewed.
First, I think the leaderboards should be split by platform. One for PC, one for Mobile, one for PS4, etc. Or at the very least, give us an option to filter by platform.
Second, a lot of the top scores need to be looked at with a critical eye. The all-time boards are almost entirely dominated by PC players, and it's very common for those scores to be well above everyone else. And while I certainly understand that some people are very skilled at pinball, there are quite a few top scores that are on PC and so far ahead of even the rest of the top 5 that it smells....fishy at best. Most of them are dominated by one player, and a good chunk of his scores are absurdly ahead of even second place.
I did a quick rundown of 40 leaderboards, basically going alphabetically starting at AC/DC and going to Ghostbusters. Of those 40 tables:
I'd be willing to bet that anyone who wanted to take the time to cover the rest of the tables would find similar results.
It's pretty obvious that PC players have an advantage. Whether that's because the PC tables play differently in a way that is beneficial to PC players, or if they're using some kind of cheat/hack/exploit, I have no idea. But comparing PC players to console players by having them on the same leaderboard is simply not a fair comparison. Each section should have their own leaderboard.
Any time a PC player posts a top score that is orders of magnitude above other scores, it should be looked at with a critical eye. Central Park has a PC player's score above a million, where other top scorers have scores in the 25k range, for example. There are several others. Scores that do not appear to be legitimate should be removed.
Any time the physics of a table changes to make it more difficult, the leaderboards for the affected platform(s) should be reset. It's very possible that old scores under the old rules are now unachievable due to the new physics.
