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<div>The point is people complain about the imbalance in scoring. Those other examples are in that same grain... do something, get huge points that generally will win against other players who can't progress far in the game. </div><div><br></div><div>Video mode still takes risks to shoot for, and by doing so you give up other things. It's a risk reward. And if you are just going to ignore playing modes so you can have VM enabled on the plunge... you are making the game un-fun for yourself... no one else is doing it to you.</div><div><br></div><div>If someone wants to do VM on ball 1.. and then play out the rest of the game, seems like a legit strategy to me.</div><div><br></div><div>If someone wants to just play as colin would and just do the same thing over and over for the full game... we'll their lack of fun is their own choice. It doesn't gurantee them anything.</div><div><br></div><div>-Steve</div><div><br></div>
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<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">I mean are we really saying "Hey, I can't win if people do that... so can you not do that?"</div>
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<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">Learn the scoring strategies and pick one that works for you. Feel free to play your own, I'll still work on finding my own to beat you.</div>
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<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">Given everyone has equal opportunity for the feature... and the game already has changed so its not available on every plunge. I don't see the point.</div>
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<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">If you want to take that risk for video mode, and then face qualifying modes... that's your choice.</div>
<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">If you want to qualify a mode and play that strategy... do so.</div>
<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">If you want to go for multipliers and play that way.. do so.</div>
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<div class="ydpe2a039e0yiv8610115351">It's not like it's the only way to win... </div>
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