I'm going to break it down for you guys a few reasons why the FGC is in the spot its in
1. Threads and discussions like these. I'm not even going to spend that much time on it but you ever go to a party your like one of the first ones there and theres always that group of people bitching about how no ones there. Then more people join the group and by the time everyone shows up you have one half of the party full of negative people / people that are already leaving and another group who wants to fit in but cant because everyones too busy being negative. If you've ever been to a social gathering you know this happens...... often. Stop that shit, really, because usually the people that start this type of shit are stuck up bubblehead girls not to be offensive to any women out there in the FGC but there aren't that many of you out there and we don't need grown ass men acting like little girls.
2. Game consistency. RTS community is huge because its centered around 1 or 2 games and people are always playing those games. You wanna watch some starcraft theres always starcraft on, League always on, Dota always on. If a new fighting game were announced today the entire fgc would be picking "mains" hyping it up, playing it day 1 and dropping it in a month maybe 2 and going back to whatever they were playing, except the casual people, the viewers who we know know will become the tournament attendees, they don't give a shit because the game they were starting to get passionate about was mia all that time and they are now watching and participating in the league community. Granted I'll give other games the edge in that the support pipeline is a more streamlined. For real though when a new game comes out people need to stop Dropping the old game and maining the new one try the new games whatever but don't kill what you've built. TO's too really need to stop putting new unproven games in majors too especially EVO.
3. Be More Active about rulesets. The Let it rock attitude is what is degenerating the games and killing their lifespan this shit has PROVEN to be degenerative. Try Banning characters that are too good I don't mean on the new game either but UBER top tier characters kill games. 3s Never gets played because of how good you have to be to beat chun, You pretty much have to be lower elite player status or higher if they are intermediate or higher though you will get facerolled. Same goes for Sent in MVC2, Zero,Morrigan, and Vergil in Marvel 3 (another dying game right now) Kabal, Kenshi should have BEEN banned. You want to make the decision that keeps the largest chunk of the game intact and allow for the biggest amount of variation if the game balance is obviously fucked up. Play with different times round counts etc, stage interactables ,and none. I don't mean ask in the forum should this stuff be done so you can have negative nancies that will never have influence tell you leave it as it is. I mean people need to be communicating asking who would play in these kinds of settings and play tournies out even sets most important thing though is to play. Bans do not look bad to other communities or viewers it means you have a high level understanding of the game as a community and will take steps to preserve the games integrity where the developers did not.
