We don't need a LB update. They are perfectly fine the way they are. Resetting everyone's stats isn't worth it.
True, this portion is all opinion. Some may think it's needed, while others don't think it is. I can see you stance on how they're not needed, that everyone has worked hard for their stats and they don't want them going to waste. I just feel that this update will benefit the servers more than it would negatively impact them, but that's just how I see it, no need to agree with me.
Excuse the double post, but, MCSG is hosted by CubedHost, correct?
CubedHost for 1 server 24 people is about 400 dollars for 6 months. So, (too lazy to do the math, so just gonna round) . For everything is about 30k a year. With the amount of donors MCSG has, they can afford to do it w/o resetting stats.
That's only factoring in in-game servers. If it was just that alone, I can see that they would have the money to double the costs (Which would be silly of them). The leaderboard server has to keep track of 1250000+ players, for each game tally a game played, compare statistics (Like most kills, most chests), know if they won a game, update their stats, and then figure out their new rank. The system has to go through this process for every player in every game finished. Which doesn't seem like much, but as
Col_StaR stated in a different thread, 30 games finish every 2.5 minutes on the network, giving 720 games per hour, which leads to 17,280 players to be processed per hour. That is a lot of work for a server to do, which adds to the cost. If they go on to make 2 separate leaderboards, that doubles the amount of players that server has to process. That will increase their costs, which in turn, will most likely lead to increases in donor costs.