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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roo" data-source="post: 115354" data-attributes="member: 3068">Yeah but Steam groups don't seem to get you anywhere for comparing scores.  You still have to add individual people to your friends list.  When PBFX2 came out I was hoping it would work that way so you could filter the leaderboard for different Steam groups you were in, but no.  The groups don't really seem to get you anything other than a set of forums/announcements for that group within Steam itself.  So it doesn't even make sense to me to have game-specific groups, because what does that get you?  There's already a forum for the game itself.  I guess something like a generic pinball group made of people that play all the different pinball games makes some sense, but still doesn't seem that useful to me as you'd probably still discuss things about each game in its own forum.Regarding TPA leaderboards I do hope they integrate Steam friends because I don't use Facebook.  It would also be awesome if the friends leaderboards were integrated into the general UI and table selection screen.  That's one area Zen has done a really good job in their games and it really amplifies the friendly competition aspect.And I doubt it will change but I'm not a big fan of how it shares leaderboards with other platforms, which are running completely different code, and have tables of various different versions.  Doesn't really seem fair.  Plus it looks like there's some obvious cheater scores on there in the quadrillions of points (scores so high they don't even fit onscreen).</blockquote>

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