With the recent announcement of MK9 being included in the MLG Winter Championship, MK player's rejoice around the country. We finally have some spotlight like we did with the PDP national tournament. Sure we have had a lot of exposure at every fighting game major in America, but we don't ever really get the respect or attention the other games get. This is not due to TO's or streamers, not at all. Team Spooky really have supported us since the beginning as well as a lot of TO's. It's the FGC who looks at us as the ugly step child, and treats us accordingly.
There's so much hate and animosity in the FGC. I've said this over and over, so many times. It's like if you play a certain game you HAVE to talk shit or hate on the other fighting games. The MK community has been working their ass off since MK9 was released. We came from 32 MAX entry tournaments for UMK3, to average almost 3 times that for MK9. People say MK9 gets low entrants but you have to realize where we were before MK9. I remember a few years ago getting two digits was a "good turnout". And we've come a pretty far way with that aspect as well as this site. TYM started with just a handful of people long before MK9 was even out. Now through STORMS's hard work and networking plus the strong staff we have, we have acquired over 8,200+ members in a very short amount of time. You would think the sudden rise and success of our community would be something that would be admired and respected. And to be fair it is be a lot of people that are highly respected themselves.
I just don't understand why the MK community gets so much hate. The game gets just about if not more hate as well. I can only assume it's because of how different MK plays than the other fighting games at tournaments. You really have to approach the game differently and that seems to be a problem for most. Every time I see or hear someone trashing MK9, I ask them why it's bad. And it always comes down to "it just does". To be honest, I'm okay with that. That's their opinion and they're entitled to it. But why have this vendetta against it? Why must you crusade against the game and the community every chance you get? If you don't like the game, why are you talking about it every single chance you get? I don't get what the game or the community has done to deserve such hatred.
We are very fortunate to be in a position where we at least have decent tournaments and some exposure. Some communities aren't so fortunate, and some of those games are more deserving. But the reason why we are in the position that we are isn't really because of MK9, it's due to US! It's because of people like 9.95 (Phil), Sabin, Shock, Tim Static, STORMS, CD Jr, REO, Dark Rob, Tom Brady etc etc etc, who have constantly and consistently either organized events or continue to support the game and play the shit out of it at tournaments. Sure the game deserves some credit, considering the state of the community prior to it. Which I mentioned was striving and doing amazingly considering we only had a 15 year old game to play and we didn't have hardly any exposure.
I don't know, I'm just venting. It's just annoying when I see people get extremely salty and act like we don't deserve anything good that happens to us. We have been working so hard to be where we're at and we still aren't anywhere near the level that the SF community is at. So when we finally catch a break like this MLG announcement, it's really insulting and ignorant to hear nearly the entire FGC outside of MK players bash the game and community for it. We need more unity and support of OTHER fighting games in the FGC. That goes for us too, that goes for everyone. How do we expect to evolve and prosper if we're constantly being immature children and bitching all the time?
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working and through the other, are great things born"
/end rant
There's so much hate and animosity in the FGC. I've said this over and over, so many times. It's like if you play a certain game you HAVE to talk shit or hate on the other fighting games. The MK community has been working their ass off since MK9 was released. We came from 32 MAX entry tournaments for UMK3, to average almost 3 times that for MK9. People say MK9 gets low entrants but you have to realize where we were before MK9. I remember a few years ago getting two digits was a "good turnout". And we've come a pretty far way with that aspect as well as this site. TYM started with just a handful of people long before MK9 was even out. Now through STORMS's hard work and networking plus the strong staff we have, we have acquired over 8,200+ members in a very short amount of time. You would think the sudden rise and success of our community would be something that would be admired and respected. And to be fair it is be a lot of people that are highly respected themselves.
I just don't understand why the MK community gets so much hate. The game gets just about if not more hate as well. I can only assume it's because of how different MK plays than the other fighting games at tournaments. You really have to approach the game differently and that seems to be a problem for most. Every time I see or hear someone trashing MK9, I ask them why it's bad. And it always comes down to "it just does". To be honest, I'm okay with that. That's their opinion and they're entitled to it. But why have this vendetta against it? Why must you crusade against the game and the community every chance you get? If you don't like the game, why are you talking about it every single chance you get? I don't get what the game or the community has done to deserve such hatred.
We are very fortunate to be in a position where we at least have decent tournaments and some exposure. Some communities aren't so fortunate, and some of those games are more deserving. But the reason why we are in the position that we are isn't really because of MK9, it's due to US! It's because of people like 9.95 (Phil), Sabin, Shock, Tim Static, STORMS, CD Jr, REO, Dark Rob, Tom Brady etc etc etc, who have constantly and consistently either organized events or continue to support the game and play the shit out of it at tournaments. Sure the game deserves some credit, considering the state of the community prior to it. Which I mentioned was striving and doing amazingly considering we only had a 15 year old game to play and we didn't have hardly any exposure.
I don't know, I'm just venting. It's just annoying when I see people get extremely salty and act like we don't deserve anything good that happens to us. We have been working so hard to be where we're at and we still aren't anywhere near the level that the SF community is at. So when we finally catch a break like this MLG announcement, it's really insulting and ignorant to hear nearly the entire FGC outside of MK players bash the game and community for it. We need more unity and support of OTHER fighting games in the FGC. That goes for us too, that goes for everyone. How do we expect to evolve and prosper if we're constantly being immature children and bitching all the time?
"One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working and through the other, are great things born"
/end rant
