Are Game Stats Important to You?

Nehle asks: "In almost every new multi-player game there is a way of keeping statistics about the games that are being played. Whether it's fan-based services or a service created by the game creator. Unreal Tournament 2004 can write nice HTML files for you, Bungie keep an insane amount of stats about games played over X-Box Live. For my favorite shooter - Enemy Territory, there is an application called Enemy Territory Teamstats and I wrote this little script to keep track of my games. Are stats any important to the average /. reader? Is it interesting how many times you shot 1337h4x0rg4m3r in the head, or is winning all that counts? Do you even want people to know if you lost 14 games in a row?"

Comments

Head, no...

[Moofius.the.Cow]

Is it interesting how many times you shot 1337h4x0rg4m3r in the head, or is winning all that counts?

Headshots, nah. Crotch-shot counter? Oh yeah! Nuttin' better than basking in the glory of the number of virtual 'men' you've removed from the gene pool courtesy of well-aimed sniper rounds to the balls.

Sadly, yes...

[palndrumm]

I must admit, I have been known to kill off the freecell.exe process in the Windows Task Manager just to keep a good winning streak going. And I have also on occasion edited the winmine.ini file on a friends computer to make sure they knew just how damn good at Minesweeper I was...