As fun as that sounds, I think I’ll pass. A FG with no competition is beyond useless.
At least your players don’t avoid the game with the excuse that they’re waiting on a patch, when they could just be playing while waiting instead (SG).
How many of them stayed, and i don’t mean the people who went to other FGs, but the people who didn’t leave when the hype of a new sf game went down?
LMAO, so having options is a bad thing? GTFO.
You know what is the real problem here?
That people have this delusion that they can only enjoy a fighting game playing it at competitive level and that they can only play 1 game at the time to manage that, despite 99% of said people would never play at a tournament neither play at competitive level.
Also, there aren’t to much games at all
4 3d fighting games, each one that covers different types of gameplay that cater to different tastes
On usa only 3 to 5 2d fighting games that matter right now depending where you live, umvc3, sf4, p4a, sfxt with the sporadic minor games like sg and ap or bbcsex which still gets play on some places but was replaced by p4a.
If you want to get nitpicky you can count old games that have dedicated players too, but this wasn’t an issue before and dunno why you feel is an issue now.
Japan has more options to choose since there are more games (old and new) with dedicated player bases and still manages to success. Not only that, many of the top players of x game are still top players on other games depite sometimes being quite different.
Inoue for example, is a succesful player on GG and SF4.
The problem is that you are seeing this with the mentality of an spectator and not a player, you feel that if the turnout of X tournament is not near to 1000, then it is bad.
You are complaining about the stream monsters, but at the same time you are talking about having 2 or 3 flags to “lead” and have hype streams and shit like that.
What the FGC community needs is more people playing what they like, supporting the games that they play, by playing them, could it be with your friends in your house, or if you are more serious about it, by showing at tournaments.
Fuck thinking about hype streams, think about hype gatherings/tournaments where YOU play.
Fuck e-celebrities too, if you are really part of the community, and i mean a fg player, your goal should be trying to take down the people at the top, not dick ride them
And what good would make to have only 2 or 3 games? It doesn’t help neither the players or the game companies.
I can assure you, if all the options that i had to play were SF4, UMV3 and SFXT i would quit the FGC altogether because non of this games cater to what i like and enjoy on a fighting game, lucky for me this is not the case, and dunno why you or the people who liked your post would like some shit like that. It would lead to stagnation, because there would be less and less players with the time.
Plus the game companies can’t survive by only making updates and dlc, that shit have a cost, and more importantly, outside a few core of players, even if we like it or not, the majority would lose interest on the game after a while, maybe a year, maybe 4, who knows, but sooner or later it will happen.
Seriously, more options allow to more people discover fgs through some game that picked their interest, which is traduced on more possible players for other games when they start discovering different options. You joined on 2010, so i would assume that you entered the FGC because SF4 or MVC3, by your post i see that you found on SFxT the game that you enjoy more, you discoverd it because you had the option to get a game that fits what you like, going by your scenario, there wouldn’t be options, and you could only choose between what is played, or not play at all, because if you happen to not like anything of the “flags” then is GG for you.
You know how is that called? Fascism.
Also, take in mind that usually every new game takes the place of another one, since usually is the new revision like SC5, TTT2, theoretically with SF4 and MVC3; or is the new option to explore/aternative that the developer wants to push like what happened with BB and GG and now with P4A and BB.
Dunno you people, but not every game needs to be payed at tournaments to be enjoyed, but also, we don’t need to keep playing the same games over and over for years, let the new stuff shine, for god sake, we have options, we should be taking advantage of it, instead of whining because more people is finding other games that they enjoy more.
On this subject, some people really want to play SG, or at least are very interested on the concepts behind the game, but the current way that the game is played simply doesn’t appeal to them, it sucks, but is true.
But more options also means more people discovering FGs that they like and more opportunities for them learning other games that ignored or were not aware of at the beginning.
True, but what good would do for you to only have competition on something that you really dislike or are simply not interested?
Having less options also means that you would have less chances to find what you like.
thinking about pickin up SFxT ? sup man
Possibly. It didn’t turn out as badly as I initially feared. Seems interesting atm, but I’m in love with SG and I’ve always wanted to try Accent Core. It could definitely be a third game though.
@Hecatom re SG
Indeed, I understand that current SG doesn’t fit what some players want. I’m just tired of seeing “game needs patch before I can play/try it” and not “I dislike the current build” full-stop. Seems nit-picky, but yeah.
So yeah. We out there supporting our game at tournies and locals? I dunno the entry numbers at sba but i personally feel that it was a opportunity wasted to play the world sfxt champ, who won, and jwong. They seem to both enjoy this game, but i dunno if the participation was high enough. We’ve only got nec left to really show support before anything is decided by the srk illuminati on whether sfxt makes it to the evo lineup, in all honestly i don’t really care what they decide, but you get my point people. Get out there and play the game with others =D
Holy fuck you are damn near everything I hate in the new FGC.
Seriously stop giving a fuck about numbers and more about quality of players. And shut the fuck up with you’r stupid ass drivel about scenes you know shit about, MK scene is more than healthy and SC is on the down turn but doing fine in any place not named America. Shut the fuck up.
thats because lilli literally has every fucking 2d fighting game tool except a command grab O_O
can we ban this fucking idiot please?
there’s always the option to set me to ignore. btw who the fuck are you again?
And you sir are exactly what’s wrong the new FGC.
Yes, because we should let the stupidity and the ignorance go rampant :rolleyes:
Someone intelligent, the clear opposite to you evidently
So let me get this straight… Because i prefer actually having a large group of people to play against regardless of quality, as opposed to having very very very few players (even if they were quality) to play against. That makes me wrong?
My bad. I care about the player base. Why? because when there’s only 4-5 people playing the game you play (say Cosmic Carnage, or Fighting Vipers, or Ergheiz, Star Wars: Master of the Tera Kasi, or even DoA1 where there was no fuckin body playing those games yet me and my buds stuck with them for a good 3-4 years). The shit gets old. Yeah you can sit there like I did playing solo or with the very very few people who actually have an interest in the game, exploring the depths and crevices of the game inside and out. But what’s the point? Why don’t I play A3? Cause there’s no one to play and I’m not going to fly halfway across the country (or in SCV’s case outside america) just to play a few people in a game.
SF4 has a huge player base. So what if most of the people that play are ass. It’s still variety, and it’s not like every one of those “ass” players is always going to stay at “ass” level. The more people you have interested in a game the more quality players you’re going to have anyway. But hey, if you like having to jump though hoops just to be able to find an opponent to play, and all you care about is having a couple people to play, then by all means go for it. Just because I’m tired of doing it tho doesnt make me an idiot.
From my own personal experience, almost everybody I know who bought SF4 (Vanilla) still plays it today. It still remains popular in the UK also. Especially in London based tournaments.
I dunno man; if I knew 4-5 good players near me that played SFxT hardcore (or some of the not-Capcom games I’m willing to learn), I’d be playing online a LOT less often. Even online, I’m trending towards sessions with the people I know more often than not.
Definitely would be nice but I know that would never happen for me because of where I live.
I think you misunderstood them. I don’t think they’re talking about the quality of the players, but the quality of the game.
I understand them. If the game I enjoy is popular, lucky me. If not, I will not switch for the mainstream ones if I don’t like them. Choice and variety is always good.
I duno, I think some people sprung back into the game but they’re just not talking about it. Surprisingly there were quite some lobbies in PSN but ranked is a little more stale. I can find matches fine on XBL in ranked though.
No you imbecile, wanting to have a good player base doesn’t make you wrong.
Is your stupid attitude of wanting other games to flop because in your words, having options that actually cater to what people want to play is bad.
You want to know what actually shrinks the “community”?
The venomous attitude that many people have towards all the games that aren’t what they like, people who attacks the games, and attacks the players of said games, also people like you who shuts down their options to only a few because is what is popular, despite if they like or not the game.
If the community were more inclusive it will surely grow, but no, instead of that we have people bitching about people playing other games, that only kills the interest of the people to be part of the community, and believe it or not, not everyone is so useless that can only play one game (see the top players); I know for my own community that a player can enter because X game but became interested on another, making the pool of players grow and at the same time, and that player can serve as a gateway for the players of Y game to discover X game so the process of growing can continue.
I had see it happening, where a payer of Y game discovered X game and that lead to him attracting other friends of his that never where interested on Y but X actually picked their interest, and with the time some of them started to try Y, and some of them started to like it as well.
That is what everyone should be aiming, taking advantage of having multiple options that attract new players, any game can serve as a gateway for people to discover the genre and grown interest on other games, but if the people inside the “community” only attacks the game of their preference and berates them, he not only wouldn’t show any interest of your game, but also probably would leave.
This already happened in the past, and is sad that the community is making the same mistakes again, shutting their options and attacking the other small communities halting their grown, which only leads to halting the growth of the whole community.
I don’t need to be Nostradamus to know that in a few years the community would be stagnant, and that it will start to shrink again, if everything keeps like how it is now.
Shut up, Hecatom! Your logic doesn’t belong here. When’s Marvel btw?