Cheating yes. Cheating that affects other players (beyond the catassing competition that is leaderboards), no.

Having someone gum up the leaderboards with their 24-7 botting is indistinguishable from a team platooning the game 24-7. There’d be fewer people doing this if the bots were somehow magically banned, but I assure you the leaderboards would still be determined primarily by who can keep their character running…

Yeah, and you don’t have to play the game either. I suppose you could meticulously personally track your own XP from that point forward to see what paragon levels you *have* earned and only apply those, but that rather defeats the purpose of a mindless hack and slash game.

Issue was that individual XP bonuses meant the best way to level was to show up with a gimped character loaded down with +XP equipment, and let everyone else do the actual killing for you. In the (relatively) cheat-free PC environment, this was causing problems, so they changed XP bonuses to be shared; your +XP gear…

I seem to recall that the NFL was more or less giving away it’s “view all games at your leisure” package to European broadcasters in an attempt to gain fans. Seems sad and counterproductive that they don’t do the same thing in Africa.

Well, Green Bay has more than four times the population you listed. But yeah, most folks are driving 2+ hours to Lambeau at any given game.

My impression has been that for a lot of British fans, the lack of a home team is almost part of the appeal. Given how many local association football teams have rivalries that verge on blood feuds, being able to randomly pick a team and cheer them on without an obligation to despise and/or assault other folks is a…