[Ruzbeh]

You frame your original post in a way to make it seem like anyone who tries to go for a high rank is playing negatively. I could become a stat whore if I wanted to and still help out the team. Just because I care about my stats doesn't mean I am not an asset to my team.

You could still be an asset to your team... but you'd be a stat whore and helpful to your team, as opposed to being solely helpful to your team. That's not a good thing. Even if you're being 1% stat whore and 99% helpful, I'd prefer 100% helpful.

How does hlstatsx has no good reason to be here? It gives people information about their stats, whether or not it's useful or accurate. If the majority of players aren't having fun because of a ranking system, then I don't know what to say.

Statistics that aren't useful or accurate are completely useless. As opposed to a scoreboard. I mean when it says how many kills you got in a particular game... I'd say that's mighty useful. Inaccurate stats like hlstatsx have no good reason to be there at all.

I am having fun even with that ranking system, but I post here on SourceOP often to come up with suggestions and stuff to make things more fun, and I view this thread as one of those suggestions. I really do think that things would be more fun without stats. Any kind of distraction is a bad thing.