South Elgin, IL
It's a style choice. Since day 0 we have always been able to handle large scores, e.g. when this happened:
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There are multiple reasons for doing this.
1. Large numbers (scores) are not relatable. Most people's eyes get glazed over when comparing thousands vs millions and obviously especially higher.* This concept was cemented for me when my father (who was a very smart person) proudly proclaimed he got a decent game of 36K in WPT. Of course he meant 36M, but if people can't get the two straight, why push it?
2. I'd much rather keep the numbers small in magnitude and large in size to make it easier for people to read them. How much information are you giving someone if you're literally using 1/3 of your screen to handle all the digits in 100M?
3. Everything means a little bit more. This is obviously all relative, but why do I care about the 25,000 I got on the bash target in the middle when I can be making shots in the wizard mode for 30,000,000?
TL;DR: Big numbers take up lots of room and no one gets them.
* This is 1T dollars in $100s. Even then, it hardly seems relatable. (Each pallet (stacked 2-high in that pic) holds $100M, another sum I'd be more than happy to have in my pocket. Probably doesn't seem all that impressive, though, when you're standing right next to it.)
