I actually play XBL lol.
I find people online easy.
Might be cause N.A [East Coast] has more players?
East Coast. :B
A bit off topic but…
If I wasn’t getting packed and moving in the next few days ( Plus Skyrim DLC <.< ), I’d tell you to hop on right now, lol. I am on the east coast though, but to be honest, I don’t care if the ping is 20 or 200 anymore. I just want to play against people.
I find that funny, since almost everyone I meet online is from the west coast. Very rarely do I meet people from the east side.
How often do you play, and around what times? I’ve noticed that anything before 4pm is a dead zone. Then between 4-8 is few and far between. Then around 8-11 is when most people start playing. Although like Saibot here said, 90% of the matches are free anyway, so I don’t even really count them.
I don’t find it very fun winning a match using only Parasoul or Double assist, or only j/c.LK, or only raw hard tags. It’s a little ridiculous and the fact I even attempt such things just proves how bored I’m already becoming with the game due to the lack of players.
The people I defeat in such a way are obvious newcomers to the game. I try to talk to them and hope they don’t get discouraged. Offer to explain anything they don’t understand. I usually just get ignored for it though. Being in the top 200 ranked, I should not be facing people who obviously have no clue what they are doing.
edit - I’ve probably played you guys a few million times then. I run a Blue Peacock / Red Stocking Parasoul / Radioactive Green Double a majority of the time.
I haven’t been playing much as of lately, been into Skyrim.
When I do though, I never play at a set time, it’s always at random. I find people even when I’m playing during Day or Night.
I find people of different ranks. I’ll find people who I can destroy easily without a sweat or people who can shit all over me without a problem.
I dunno, maybe the overlords of xbox just love me.
Edit - I use a Green Solobella.
Other people can think what they want. I’m not out to start grabbing people by the ankles screaming ‘No no please don’t leave us, we have a ‘scene’, we’ve got a ‘community’! We can do tutorials! We can do combo videos! Move Lists will return I swear it!’ A hundred people at Evolution is amazing. Ninety three at UFGT8 was astounding. Sixty four at ECT4 was great.
We are at the infancy stages here. To be frank **we do not have a community or a scene yet. **A handful of majors (and plenty of local deals) do not a scene make. My crappy blog has 10,000+ hits but it barely gets 11 views a day. The online scene being dead is a sign of the current environment for anything that isn’t from Capcom and wasn’t released a few weeks ago.
All I have to say is if you really love playing this game, getting better at it, and playing other people in it YOU MUST BE PATIENT AND MOTIVATED. The passion will always be there but people have to understand that the FGC *is *over saturated but in a good way. Things will slowly fall into place, I assure you but you have to be understanding of the situation (the utter bending over backwards to do their job over at Reverge) and respect it. This patch is proof that they’re listening and that they value you all, so show them the same courtesy.
If you feel like SG is filler for you until P4U or whatever drops, well I can’t help you. If you think it’s ‘dead’ already I can’t help you either. I’m not going to help anyone in that regard. Just know that we have all that we need to start a healthy, growing community, the rest is up to time and diligence itself.
Yay. First post ever.
I’m lovin’ SG, rolling a Painwheel/Filia, and really want the overall scene to grow, so I’d really like to help as much as I can.
Anyway, I just play with my brother at this point, but I don’t even know how to know if there’s a scene where I am. So, how do I do that?
The regional match making board is your best bet. Find the region and thread for the area closest to you and see where people meet to play games.
Yeah SFIV has got people too used to expecting a bunch of people to play a game in tournaments literally straight out the gate. SFIV brought back a new version of a game after 10 years that was accessible enough for people of any past tournament fighter to get into so of course everyone would crowd around it for a while. Same with MVC3 really since it has been 10 years literally since the last one.
That’s not really typical in the fighting game scene. Plenty enough fighting games like 3rd Strike and Guilty Gear took time to get the big tourney player base they had.
It Melty Blood 5 years to get to Evolution, if we keep at it with Skullgirls it will likely only take a year.
Don’t make me pull out the old man card >:|
And Melty vanished again afterwards, as far as Evo is concerned.
What was it that Cannon said? “Thanks for sharing your game with us.”
The CafeID guys are just a group of like 8 people who get together and grind their asses off in KoF XIII. One of them won EVO2013.
Skullgirls netcode is way better than KoF XIII, let’s level up as best we can and support the game and grow the scene.
Look at what the VF community is doing right now to encourage people to support and show up so they can hopefully be a main game at EVO2013
http://virtuafighter.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/333141/Win $50 - WNF Weekly Rising St
Who fucking cares? There was no higher achievement necessary for our community.
Some no name april fool’s joke of a god damn doujinshi game that was based off some sorry ass porno visual novel that managed to blow up in arcades in Japan made it into an Evolution. It has never seen the light of day to be published here, it costs around $200 to play (purchase of the game and all the tools necessary to play it on PS2 at the time). None of us in the community, including myself ever thought this would happen period but it did. I can not think of another game that had international players come solely for one game (specialists in the game and not wonder men like Tokido). We joked about it for ages but when opportunity knocked on our door we blew a freaking hole next to said door, invited it in, and gave opportunity the best god damn party it’s ever had in its life.
It’s why I’m so retardedly engrossed in this game and scene, I know what it’s like to have shit for a community, no one to play on net play, people hating on your game because ‘lol anime’, whatever. You can give all that a giant middle finger and play the game you love and love the game you play and it won’t matter. You guys have a game with direct contact with the developer, the best netplay available, easy accessibility on (soon to be) 3 platforms, and a rabid fandom that will eat you up and make you celebrities just as much as the other games can have.
I can not express to you how important it is to be patient and motivated. It’s one thing to not enjoy the game simply because you don’t like how it plays. It’s another thing entirely to drop it because online matchmaking is slow or local tournaments only get 8 people.
Fuck if I have to grab a flag and lead you sons of a bitches to the future of this god damn community I will.
I play good people online all the time, and i’m west coast.
Chibi: I’ll certainly agree with you is that melty is the model to look to,.
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I was going to say stop responding to xes because he’s making me think whatever the people he works with have might actually be contagious but I’m glad he provoked you to make you type this.
How scene can be dying? The game isn’t even arrived to my place yet >_>
And Chibi is telling the truth: SG is game made by gamers for gamers. It has already or will have in future all possible things necessary to get big. We just need to not lose people we already have pretty much.
You’re welcome 
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I can say that personally as a newer fighting game player that started when AE came out, I did buy Skullgirls but have of late been overwhelmed with trying to learn new games- SF4 AE, then UMvC3(skipped vanilla), 3rd Strike Online, Skullgirls, and KoF13, then SFxT
I ended up playing a lot of SFxT the first few weeks but I have pretty much cut that out, right now I am adding Skullgirls into the mix and trying to learn it, KoF, and Marvel at the same time.
I think a big part of the struggle for it is the fact that it’s not featured at WNF or TNT or Big Two, and I think that’s because it didn’t make the main EVO lineup- those shows seem to revolve around leveling up scenes for EVO but they are very popular and have a trickle down effect.
Just oversaturated with fighting games right now, all of which are a lot of fun in their own right to play but which unfortunately all require a lot of time.
This is…beautiful :’)