GreeceKingsIsle Entertainment is publicly offering a 20-dollar reward of in game Wizard101 currency for getting a world record in the Wizard101 leaderboard, which has over 100 runners (and an additional 25 dollars to a GDQ chosen charity). After a response to one of their posts, a community manager informed me that such a leaderboard is not considered competitive enough to warrant it being called competitive, and that such world records were attainable at a pace of “5 world records in 2 weeks” and thus trying to justify that someone can earn up to a hundred dollars’ worth of rewards (except it costs them nothing since they are giving out in game currency). They also mocked my willingness to help charity even though I literally have a charity speedrun marathon participation lined up in 2 days.
In order to prove how much of a joke KingsIsle’s approach and attitude towards speedurnning is, I will PERSONALLY match their funding incentive in the Overwatch 2 leaderboards, which have approximately the same number of players as the W101 leaderboards as of me writing this. This means that as a college student I will match the world record incentive of a multimillion-dollar company LMFAO. On the final night of 2022, the world record of each category for Tutorial PC/Console and Practice Range PC (of that current season, all heroes) will “win” and I will donate 45 dollars to the charity of choice of each world-record holder. If you want to help, I would highly request your speedrun includes the words “A world record is worth more than 20$” somewhere on your screen.
This is a personal incentive, and not something sponsored by the mod team. I think it is insulting to value the countless hours and passion people put into speedurnning at 20$ worth of in game currency and I hope to see attitudes like this change in the future.
Please post category suggestions to extension boards.
Copying the requirement form DOA6. From now on WRs will need video proof.
Hey all, Game Brain here on behalf of the mod team. There are a few changes that will be added to the leaderboard so I wanted to make a forum post covering everything.
- Splitting Current Patch Runs From Pre-1.22 Runs
Many time attack runs took place while the game was being regularly updated. After reading over and experiencing changes from patches after August 2019, it is clear that time attack runs are indeed affected. The last patches of DOA 6 focused on universal character changes, changes to game aspects like danger zones, and of course game balance and additional character releases (which further dilutes rng pool).
With all of these changes in mind, as discussed in the community discord, the proper approach is to retroactively create what is effectively a “current patch” category. When thinking about how to properly do this split, it is important to consider the size of our community, meaning it would not make sense to split the old leaderboard into 10 different patches. The solution we will be going with is to change the existing category, to “Time-Attack (Legacy)” in order to maintain the showcasing of old runs. A new category simply called “Time-Attack” will be made to serve as the current patch variant, hosting any run that took place after Patch 1.22 (the last update the game received).
With this approach, we manage to not significantly split the leaderboard, while also allowing the proper emphasis on old runs and current runs. Additionally, any run that has taken place since 1.22 will be manually moved to the new category so the runners don't have to worry themselves about it.
- Video Submission Requirement
To give some historical context as to why full video submission was not required for doa5/6, when the doa5 lb was first becoming popular, the go to version for running was Steam. However, the game requirements were quite demanding and could lead to serious lag when recording the game on weaker computers (not to mention capture card requirements to record consoles). With only an incredibly small group of people running the game’s time attack mode, the mod team back then agreed that image submission was fine, as doa5 also gave you a detailed timecard. Additionally, some runs took place in local tournaments, with runners such as myself encouraging others to try a run, resulting in screenshot proof for a 10th place time making a lot of sense.
It has been recently brought to my attention that it is now possible to use software to manipulate the in game timer. In the past, people were able to hack scores in the in-game leaderboards but there had never been mention of being able to mess with the timer in real time. This creates a need for video proof for runs to become the standard for top times.
When deciding how to change our rules, it was important to keep the original reasoning for not having such a requirement in mind. Thus we will require video proof for world records. This will allow us to keep high accessibility for the game, while also not losing credibility for top times.
- New Categories! Combo Challenges
On the positive end, we have our first new category being added in a few years, Combo Challenges! The category is based around completing a character’s combo challenges as fast as possible, and thus will be split by character. Character specific categories are something that a few people had requested in the past, and this is a way to fulfill that idea while also providing a new and unique speedrun category. We will monitor interest in this category carefully, and potentially also add a command training category in the future.
I'll respond here as I did on disc, but just to give some thought behind how the LBs are formatted.
First and most importantly, it is already possible to see the fastest time for each character, as srcom allows you to filter them.
To create IL's for this game it would imply 32x8 new categories, which would be incredibly unpleasing for anyone trying to find any information on this board. I know you mentioned we could just implement highest and lowest difficulties, but that is still 64 new categories, on a board with 0 active runners and less than 20 overall.
The actual reason we don't have any implemented beforehand, is how the series itself treats time attack. The series itself on its official leaderboards treats it as one category, and the only reason the srcom lb needs to exist is because the main one is filled with hackers, so the best times are not accurately reflected
Additionally, to keep proper formatting for games, games with tag system cannot support ILs as the potential amount of combinations would leads to hundreds if not thousands of categories (which is why the games themselves keep the LBs as one). I always stand by the belief that if you're having fun you don't need a leaderboard to speedrun, but in this case we even have a place were you can submit your run and allow it to be filtered by character if that is what you are interested in.
If you submit a sample run we can take a look into it.
Sorry to say but it's a bit arbitrary to have as a category. However, feel free to submit your story run as an actual story run if you'd like, we already have a category for that.
Sorry, are you trying to suggest this as a category?
As explained in my first post, the title of this lb is literally the title of the game and its port. The bg is there for the lbs to look good, there is nothing misleading about it.
If you could crop it that would actually be really nice!
Yo I can't vote since I'm not a runner but imagine asking people to have to drop an extra 500$ just to have a chance at being competitive in a community this small. All I'll say is this looks bad imo, especially before a GDQ showing where new players could potentially look into the game.
For sure I can look into changing the BG. Do you have any image you would recommend?
This page is just for dead or alive 5 already. DOA5+ is a direct port for the vita and plays exactly the same. We have a different leaderboard for LR (the version with major differences) which can be found here: https://www.speedrun.com/doa5lr
BG Images are always chosen for aesthetic in an attempt to make every lb have its own feel and be more unique.
As for moderation, I'm sorry but we are not accepting more moderators right now since there is no major need for them. Whenever we look for new mods there is usually an announcement on forums/the community discord.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Thank you for everything.
I went ahead and changed the categories for you. For future record, you can go ahead and click "edit run" on your submission to change that yourself.
A while back all of the kingdom Hearts 2 final mix leaderboards where combined into this one. You can find different games (original fm , fm hd, etc) by selecting the sub category for the respective console. If you are looking for the PS3 kh2 fm hd, you can find it by clicking "misc" and then selecting either ps3 jp or ps3 eng. Hope this is what you were looking for.
Late response (since I wasn't a mod back then) but yes, this leaderboard has been modified to accept all DOAX3 runs. You should be able to enter switch as a console now when submitting a run.
