people get hurt when there favorite game is "trashed", and some people go to the extreme and may act like you killed there kids for saying stuff about something they are passionate (not literally). at the same time cat and 16 bit don't know all the things you guys know about how much joe has done for our community and how you guys are the real supporters even though you don't like said game, you care more about the community. am i right?
I'm not going to jump into the rest of this argument, but I do want to correct this one fallacy -- fighting games have always been a financial loss for MLG. This has been stated by Sundance, and he made it clear that he was running the tournaments out of goodwill for the fighting games and their players.
I understand what you're saying. I know MK got low numbers, and that's the reason it was dropped. NRS/WB had a 1 season contract. I want you to watch something. There is a major FGC sponsor that is also involved in MLG right now that also has a 1 season contract. They are going to drop after this season. I won't say the name, but just watch it happen. I 100% guarantee you it's going to happen. More goes on behind the scenes than what Sundance is telling everyone. Do you know how many times I personally gave them the formula on how to get the FGC involved in a REAL manner that will benefit everyone? Three times since 2008. I know three people who worked there, asked me how to get it to work I wrote it out, gave it to them, and it was rejected at the meetings. MLG's problem is that they look for quick solutions to big problems. They put the right people in the wrong places. Why was Arturo simply a stream manager? Why wasn't he the FGC liason? Carlos was the FGC liason. I know Carlos personally. I've known him since Tekken 5 was in arcades. He lives 20 minutes away from me. We're friends. Everyone knows Arturo from every community, Carlos was better off behind the scenes. His resources were much better put elsewhere, but MLG doesn't look that far in advance. Look at how Capcom handles it. They had Seth Killian as their community lead. Why? Because everyone knew him from back in the day as a great player. He was heavily involved in Evo until 2007 when he was hired by Capcom on the SF4 project. Look who the community lead is now. Combofiend. Peter has been around for YEARS in the Capcom community and everyone knows him. MLG makes backwards decisions on things that don't matter to them. The FGC didn't matter to them. It was doomed from the start.
That is 100% correct.
Apparently not close enough because if you did, you would know that you wouldn't have a scene to play in without the support from LI Joe and others who helped build the foundation for MK at tournaments when the community monsters didn't want our games at their tournaments. The North East scene is the Mecca of true competitive MK and the driving force of competition around the country. Everything you have right now stems from us. There would be NOTHING without it. NUTHEENG. I don't think you realize how hard it is for a game to make it in the FGC. It was already there for you when you came around.
It did nothing for MK9? Really? Because I have run more MK tournaments than any person in this country, and I can say, without fear of contradiction that the only reason MK9 existed in the FGC was because of us running MK, primarily UMK3, for the better part of 10 years before it came out.
You know, I honestly forgot about how sidelined MK was for years because we never thought twice about including it.
