LordxMugen
FIGHTAN GAHMS!!!
First i wanna give a shoutout to Lobo for giving me this idea. if it wasnt for him i probably wouldnt be making this thread.
Anyways, there was a thread made a few days ago about the current life of MK9 and how we could better it. what looked like flamebait turned into a big discussion about how best to rebuild the MK scene after many years of being the laughing stock of the competitive fighting game community and how best to utilize this newfound popularity for MK9.
Some said we need to ween the online gamers off the online play and show them theres a scene for them. some said the online MK9 players dont even want to come or theyre too stubborn to come play locals. me, i dont even believe they know TYM or MKU EVEN EXISTS.
Seriously guys, i honestly believe LESS THAN 2% even knows theres a site dedicated to tournament level MK9. Maybe they dont care. maybe they never thought about it. or maybe they thought the local scene for MK was long dead after MK4. for one reason or another, theyve never been given a decent reason to play MK9 outside of online play or a friends house, competitively UNTIL NOW.
NOW we have a game we can be (mostly) proud of. NOW we have something we can build on and show people how fun, deep, and accessible it is. something that anybody with some decent practice can be good at and win at. MK9 is here man. its fun, its competitive and IT THRIVES.
the numbers dont lie. at any given time theres several hundred, if not several THOUSAND who play this game online at ANY GIVEN TIME. THIS IS THE SCENE WE NEED TO BUILD FROM!! these are our resources guys and i can imagine if we welcome and absorb these people into our fold the tournament scene will EXPLODE!!
really, we need to be asking ourselves why alot of these people are not watching our streams. talking about playing with us in locals. or why they arent at our tournaments. i think the BIGGEST PROBLEM is that they dont fucking know because we havent told them where to go or havent advertised "Hey, theres an MK9 tournament at this place near where you live. we have a group, maybe you want to check it out.". We havent tried hard enough despite how absolutely EASY it is for us to do this on MK9 online.
and this is where the "Simple Solution" comes in. now before someone blasts me about how theyve thought about this long ago and did this or what not. or how it wont work, or SOMETHING (somebodys gonna yell at me i KNOW IT.). i have to say ive never seen anyone suggest this or even IMPLIED it (cept maybe Lobo).
Anyways, all we need to do is go on the highly populated chat rooms and squeeze ourselves in. we tell everybody on there were making a state room for where we live and that people who live there can join us for a few rounds and we can all get to know each other. after awhile, saying you get enough people (itll probably start small. then get bigger as you do it more), yall talk about the cities yall live in and tell them if theres a scene or not and if theyd like to try it out. you could also tell them about this site and how there a people around who can point you in the right direction if you want to learn your character more or just talk about MK9. just be real welcoming and bring in the people who are interested. you really might be surprised by the responses you get.
now will this always work everyday? i dont know. will you get trolls or people who can be assholes? most definitely. but this is what we have to work with. and thankfully because of the way NRS built the online portion of the game (not the netcode mind you but the front end and how you get matches started) and how thriving the online kommunity is right now we can leverage this to our advantage. think of this as a community building exercise. cause thats what we are doing.....rebuilding a community for this game.
i really hope some of yall will try this and maybe we can get some more people interested in our sites. and maybe some more streams and tournaments going.
Anyways, there was a thread made a few days ago about the current life of MK9 and how we could better it. what looked like flamebait turned into a big discussion about how best to rebuild the MK scene after many years of being the laughing stock of the competitive fighting game community and how best to utilize this newfound popularity for MK9.
Some said we need to ween the online gamers off the online play and show them theres a scene for them. some said the online MK9 players dont even want to come or theyre too stubborn to come play locals. me, i dont even believe they know TYM or MKU EVEN EXISTS.
Seriously guys, i honestly believe LESS THAN 2% even knows theres a site dedicated to tournament level MK9. Maybe they dont care. maybe they never thought about it. or maybe they thought the local scene for MK was long dead after MK4. for one reason or another, theyve never been given a decent reason to play MK9 outside of online play or a friends house, competitively UNTIL NOW.
NOW we have a game we can be (mostly) proud of. NOW we have something we can build on and show people how fun, deep, and accessible it is. something that anybody with some decent practice can be good at and win at. MK9 is here man. its fun, its competitive and IT THRIVES.
the numbers dont lie. at any given time theres several hundred, if not several THOUSAND who play this game online at ANY GIVEN TIME. THIS IS THE SCENE WE NEED TO BUILD FROM!! these are our resources guys and i can imagine if we welcome and absorb these people into our fold the tournament scene will EXPLODE!!
really, we need to be asking ourselves why alot of these people are not watching our streams. talking about playing with us in locals. or why they arent at our tournaments. i think the BIGGEST PROBLEM is that they dont fucking know because we havent told them where to go or havent advertised "Hey, theres an MK9 tournament at this place near where you live. we have a group, maybe you want to check it out.". We havent tried hard enough despite how absolutely EASY it is for us to do this on MK9 online.
and this is where the "Simple Solution" comes in. now before someone blasts me about how theyve thought about this long ago and did this or what not. or how it wont work, or SOMETHING (somebodys gonna yell at me i KNOW IT.). i have to say ive never seen anyone suggest this or even IMPLIED it (cept maybe Lobo).
Anyways, all we need to do is go on the highly populated chat rooms and squeeze ourselves in. we tell everybody on there were making a state room for where we live and that people who live there can join us for a few rounds and we can all get to know each other. after awhile, saying you get enough people (itll probably start small. then get bigger as you do it more), yall talk about the cities yall live in and tell them if theres a scene or not and if theyd like to try it out. you could also tell them about this site and how there a people around who can point you in the right direction if you want to learn your character more or just talk about MK9. just be real welcoming and bring in the people who are interested. you really might be surprised by the responses you get.
now will this always work everyday? i dont know. will you get trolls or people who can be assholes? most definitely. but this is what we have to work with. and thankfully because of the way NRS built the online portion of the game (not the netcode mind you but the front end and how you get matches started) and how thriving the online kommunity is right now we can leverage this to our advantage. think of this as a community building exercise. cause thats what we are doing.....rebuilding a community for this game.
i really hope some of yall will try this and maybe we can get some more people interested in our sites. and maybe some more streams and tournaments going.