I should have mentioned that the Bejeweled Blitz leaderboards are reset weekly; so the fact that PopCap guys are at the top of my list is not because they played a lot back in the day and once got a really good score - it's because they get really good scores every week. So while they may play more each week than you or me (hey, it's their job, after all) it's still pretty impressive. (Others think they must be cheating - to which I say, "Think that if you want. Whatever helps you sleep at night.")
Still, Jeremy argues that they're too random, and the very fact that he perceives the randomness to outweigh his skill, that he doesn't think it's worth investing his time, may go to show that they overdid it...or maybe it just goes to show that you can't please everybody...
Permanent leaderboards, by the way, are not a good thing. Not for the longevity of a game, anyway - right away, some awesome player will stake out some awesome score and 99.9% of other players will decide it's not even worth competing. Even if it's just a friends list competition - the deltas between friends are high enough to drive people away.
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