What originally impressed me about this system was that there was no penalty for losing. If you lose, you gain less grade points, but you still gained! In the ranked matches with battle points, you'd lose points for every loss you had... I hated that. With championship mode, no more losing points, they're yours to keep! Whoohoo! Another way of looking at it, for those of us that are rpg fanatics, is that you get xp for playing. The more you play, the more xp you get, and then rank up.
Now the ranking system goes like this. There's 4 (maybe 5) tiers, and in each tier there are ranks A-E, E being lowest and where everyone starts out. All was well when I started, winning some, losing some, but it was fun. I've since ranked up enough to move onto tier 2, and now getting raped :/ Each 'tourney' now consists of 4 rounds, and the quality of players have gone up exponentially. The farthest I've gotten is to the 3rd round, then I lose. More often than not, I lose on the 1st round... and you get no points for that... sadness. At least in tier 1, you get 1 point for losing in the first round :( Maybe I'll blame my losing streak on the dualshock 3 and not having a joystick :(
Hmm, in other news... I've played through Valkyria Chronicles twice (once with the New Game+ option) and A ranked all missions but the Hard mode skirmishes. Bought 2/3 of the dlc, and beat those. Selvaria's missions was way better than Edy's story, way better. Played Godfather 2 and beat it. Though not the greatest game, it had some fun moments and I was able to get the game for cheap since a friend works at EA, and actually worked on the game.
Still no itch to play FFXI, and I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever come back to it. I've been enjoying my time away from it. The freedom that comes with that is priceless. I don't have to worry about logging in at any given time, then committing to hours on end to doing some event. I get to be freeeeeeeee (and slack) =D. It gives me a little more freedom to be spontaneous on how I spend my day. If my friend calls me up asking to hang out, I don't have to think twice about it due to some event scheduling. If I feel like watching a movie, tv show, playing PS3 with a friend, same deal. I do miss hanging out with AP'ers though, and miss doing this
I hope someone else has kept the /dance going in my absence. If this pic is any indication, maybe Con has! I'll keep my grubby little fingers crossed. Another thing I missed is that I don't listen to as much music as I used to while playing FFXI. I always had my winamp going and my game music off, and now not so much. I still somewhat keep up with trance, but I haven't been listening to much else in term of different genres.
Tune of the Moment: Gareth Emery - Exposure
