I guess this is where we have to agree to disagree. The way maker points were previously calculated was actively detrimental to the game, causing players to lose points for factors out of their control and reducing the value of producing additional levels.
This isn't true though. Every level I uploaded has only ever increased my total Maker Points. You're score only decreases if you can't meet minimum thresholds and that makes sense because if the Maker Points system isn't meant to emphasize pure popularity in rankings, simply uploading more volume should not boost your score inherently. That doesn't mean that more levels equals lower score. There is no way I could reach the score I "was" at without adding more levels. Most people absolutely could not increase their score without more volume. The only people who hit physical walls would be people like GokouD or Matilder whose scores were so high with a few levels so big that the averaging effect dinged them. And whethet that is a bad thing or not depends on whom you are talking to.
What you're saying is plainly false. Its not that people were uploading more that their score wasn't going up. Its that what they were uploading wasn't generating enough positive interest and even if that's offensive to some people that isn't a false statement. The game has like 6 million levels, you can't expect everyone to always be generating good outcomes from uploads.
It was actively discouraging people from making levels, particularly levels that would not appeal to a large audience and could not hope to capture the number of plays of previous levels.
Again, this is just plainly not true. You're score doesn't get capped at the level of points 99% of people in the community have. The people experiencing score stagnation had scores in the 13,000+. Your score isn't capped by additional uploads around 2000, you just are not generating enough interest to bump your ranking.
There is inherent value in solving that problem and I believe that the cost of the momentary disruption of implementing that change is less than the added benefit of fixing that system.
Plainly going to ask this. What benefit do people with low Maker scores think this is going to add? You're levels do not trend more with a higher Maker Score. You Maker score is a ranking and your ranking is based off of the levels you publish. You dont gain any visibility in this game unless you make the populad section or you have a medal. What has this solved? Again note, you're observation about Maker scores naturally decreasing with more uploads is not true for people for the vast majority of player in this game.
It doesn't do enough to fix it and they did it in an needlessly opaque way, but for better or for worse, that's how Nintendo has always treated their ongoing services, it shouldn't come as a surprise at this point that their updates will always fix issues with the subtlety of a hammer.
The issue is this doesn't fix anything. It changes how like 1200 people interact with the upper rankings in the game but it does not fix anything for the average person. That's part of why this change pisses me off. I get punished for zero benefit to the community as a whole.
Though the things you are saying only highlight one side of the issue. The same way people up in the rankings complained about a plateau, the only reason I even engaged in the meta game was because you did not need a wildly popular level to do well in the rankings. I am never going to have a level as popular as the top creators but the fact the game still let people climb the rankings is what kept me clawing away at it. Note this because its important.
My score was increasing because I was uploading MORE levels. I would have put this shit down way sooner if I knew they would do this and make it impossible to get to the higher levels without thousands of likes.
There is no "better" system. Maker Points was a formula. That formula meant different things to different people and what is pissing me off having this discussion with people is they just assume there was no positives to the old system. I engaged in the game way more because of what thr old system offered people like me. Them changing it with 0 warning any just reranking everyone and stripping exposure sucks. I dont get why people are trying to act like my frustrations are not valid.
I don't mean to diminish your frustration with the change, just to point out that this can only have negative effects for the top 1000 or so makers and is a positive change for everyone else.
Most discussions today have been diminishing my frustration so its whatever. But the change has 0 effect on anyone operating outside the top end of the rankings so I dont get your reasoning. Just because you are getting more Maker Points it doesn't mean your levels get more exposure. You're Maker Score decreasing literally only matters if you are already ranked because thats where you gain visibility.
Anyway, I'm out. I don't want to really continue this. Yall have fun with this. I'll still be playing but my activity going forward is up in the air at this point. I love the game but I'll have to decide if I want to engage with the game and the community as before because having my rank stripped down after the amount I was grinding has really soured the experience for me.
Edit: and I dont mean my frustrations to be taken personally by anyone here. There is a reason I have been so active in this thread and have promoted many of the people heres levels to friends and even on Era. Its because I love playing your levels. But it sucks watching your grind be entirely erased in a 3 minute update.
