Uh we’ve had at least 3-4 St1ckbug tournaments at Next Level, where have you been?
Hey man I try but those multiple RDPs in the air with Thor are a bitch. Not only that but when you get crossed up Thor ends up doing that random shitty mighty spark. I wanna be good, I swear but my hands, they can’t sometimes.:shake::sad:
too busy being PART OF THE PROBLEM
Taking care of my nephew mostly. Now that’s it’s Summer I have more free time now since my sis works less hours. Also, Meshfest is closer to home and easier on the pockets. It’s more convenient
Oh yeah? OH YEAH?
I’ll see you at Mashfest 
the only reason SG didn’t get a lot of entrants is because it wasn’t a main stage game. If they had put it on the main stage people would have actually bothered to play it and enter.
and lets be honest, the only reason KoF got so many entrants is because of the T-shirt.
So… lets start back up skullbats? yes yes?
When the patch drops yes.
For the game to succeed competitively it needs hardcore competitors. This means people who will go to major tournaments and try to win first place. If you don’t go to majors, then majors won’t support the game because no one will be playing it.
I think that the “you have to go to majors” thing is the elephant in the room. No one wants to accept that if they want the game to survive, they’re going to have to SAVE MONEY and FLY TO ANOTHER STATE to support the game. Instead people just twiddle their thumbs and wait for some sudden revelation to happen, like Filipino Champ or Daigo is going to start playing the game and then thousands of people will follow. This is not going to happen, ever. If you want the game to succeed, then YOU have to take the initiative.
The Mortal Kombat community has gone to such backbreaking lengths to give the games they love a long lifespan… but you guys just sit here and complain.
One thing I notice is that there is very little emphasis on competitiveness in the SG community. Nobody talks about who is the best at the game, who are the best players in a certain region, or anything like that. This means that the game will never evolve and no one will take it seriously.
not picking on you in particular but this kind of attitude isnt helping anything either. all i ever see nowadays is ‘after the patch, after the patch, after the patch’, like the game becoming something totally completely different or something like that. sure you might have to tweak a couple combos or some shit, but big freaking deal basically. How long was it now that we found out about the patch? nearly 2 months ago? and we still dont even know when the patch is due out for certain. All we have to go off is rough estimates. in the mean time the online/offline scene is completely dying on its arse because people are scared of having to spend a few hours with new combos. how long are people willing to wait for the patch to actually arrive? we may not even get it for 1-2 months still (pray god im wrong). The online scene on xbox has been dead for the last month or so now and once people get sick of waiting 20-30 mins to get a decent match they will just stop playing as well and just keep the cycle going.
ill tell you whats going to happen when the patch drops, the people who havent played for the last 2-3 months will come in, have a dabble with it a little, and then realise theyve totally forgotten how to play the game and have to basically learn from scratch again, and then will just fuck it off and go back to playing marvel or whatever. meanwhile everyone who stuck with and carried on playing since the patch announcement will have already adapted since they dont really need to learn all that much new shit as its all fresh in the mind still, just rejig a few button presses here and there.
people who werent even bothered to stick around and still play the game arent gonna magically come back in droves once the patch hits. whos to say that people wont just find a new reason not to play the game after the patch (DLC characters, more balance changes, male characters, online lobbies etc etc etc)
i agree that simply saying ‘turn up to majors’ is not really a legit answer. if you live somewhere where majors/tournies actually take place its all well and good but when you live in the middle of nowhere and it costs a good chunk of change/time to travel its pretty unrealistic.
as much as it pains me to say it since i love the game and recommend it to anyone i talk to as a totally solid fighter, i cant see things changing once the patch hits. give it a couple weeks and it will be back to finding no games to play online.
This will definitely happen, I’m like 98% sure.
Game will surge a few weeks post-patch and post-DLC, then die down again to current levels.
I almost wish I was keeping statistics so I can make a graph of this in 6 months. It would be a pretty cool rollercoaster.
It happens in most games and it’s just out our power to get people still playing lol.
I’m still playing Skullgirls occasionally myself, it’s not like I quit.
Warning: It is current 5AM. I have not gone to sleep. I will now spout ideas off the top of my head.
Interaction between the online and offline communities would be a start. Something like an online circuit, which at the end, the top players get tagged with a bounty if they are regulars to offline tourneys. This would give people incentive to go after the players in their area or go after players they see/they’ll see at a major. It could also recreate rivalries. Potentially.
Streamer Online Tourneys is another idea. Simply have people who can record and/or stream matches get together in an online tourney. Take the content and post online.
Unified community youtube account. Arcana Heart has a youtube account called homingcanceldotcom which is pretty much the url to the website of the US community behind the AH3 scene. having a skullgirlscommunitychannel channel where we consolidate videos could be good as it would allow many users to subscribe to a single account, rather than looking for many accounts to follow, and also would make spreading the account that much easier. Things like tutorials, high profile matches, blow ups, comebacks, podcasts, developer interviews and things of the sort to highlight all the different points of skullgirls in order to appeal to more people would be great.
uhh. that’s all i can come up with. all these should bolster the community, allowing us as a whole to have more weight on whether SG gets onto EVO or not.
marking to follow (and no the watch button doesn’t work well with my phone app)
These kinds of discussions are always really amazing to read ><
If you want sg at evo, show up to majors. The more people show up for it the higher the chances it will get the chance to be at evo.
For people to show up to majors, we need to give them reasons to show up. Streams with commentators that know what they’re talking about and actively discuss the game while keeping viewers informed and education would work wonders. Commentators chit-chatting about other things or about how they don’t know what’s going on, or just using wrong or outdated information wont help foster viewers.
Rivalries on stream. Team battles on stream. Bounties on stream. Things that engage the audience is what will help turnouts, because the more an audience grows familar with a game, the more likely they are to pick it up.
honestly, given the relatively low population, the only way to do any of that is to have reverge fix their lobby/matchmaking system. Closing the bands will help, but having lobbies both with people playing and open slots would be huge.
Of course that’s beyond the power of the players, so you’re left back with ‘show up!’
For a Skullgirls tournament two weeks from now, I’m putting $50 into the pot.
That is how my poor mind read this.
this is only really a viable answer for people who live in cities where majors take place though. as guitalex said, stuff like that isnt cheap, hotel, flights, food etc. all just to try and promote a game??