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Originally Posted by qqwref

Except FFR's scoring is combo based. If you're going for good ranks, something you can't FC is too difficult to get a decent score on without a lot of mashing and/or luck. So it becomes a lot less fun to play. Of course, things change when you're playing for raw scoring (e.g. a custom tournament, indeed engine, offline engine, etc.).

The scoring in-engine is combo based, but the community's consciousness is raw scoring based. How many times have you seen someone say "oh, so-and-so has gotten 3-0-1-3 on a file but they clearly can't SDG it because their best recorded score is 490-84-0-350"
It just doesn't happen, the community consciously cares more about raw scoring than combo scoring.