Ideas and Mr. Aquaman/Echo for TYM.

[PLAYING TO WIN]

I have been saying TYM lost its appeal for whatever reason to the majority of the players. With twitter and discord people socialize else where. I remember when it was required that you come to this site to keep up with new tech and news.

I was reluctant to pay for the TYM upgrades/contribute bc I really didn't see a blueprint. There is one thing I would gladly contribute for and even pay a yearly subscription.

If TYM has the means, hire Mr. Aquaman and maybe Echo to have a tournament season in the name of TYM, have a stream similar to Pigs red hot sundays, et cetera. This will force people to come to tym to register and look at brackets/rankings. mirror what stream.me did. lets be serious. if that was on twitch it would have had thousands of viewers at its peak.

All while cleaning up the damn character forums. Just a thought.

 

[CrimsonShadow]

My thoughts are that while this would be nice, it wouldn't move the needle much in terms of people being here. Kind of like ESL, it's easy to go to the website, check the brackets and stuff, and then just go elsewhere. I think that there has to be something more fundamental to keep people engaged.

With that said, there is no community website for any game that retains the top players. Not Eventhubs (Eventhubs is far more casual than even TYM), not Shoryuken (RIP), Smashboards, or sites for League, DotA, CS:GO or any other competitive game. Some pros check in on Reddit now and then, but no one is an regular participant in discussions with the majority of casual of fans of the game.

I don't think a tournament is a bad idea -- I just don't think it will address your concerns from the first paragraph.

Brainstorming long the lines of the tourney idea though -- I think the key issue is funds. Most of the organizations that are hiring people like that are blowing money year by year. They are venture-capital backed, lose thousands to tens of thousands each year, and have no model yet of earning enough income to cover their costs.

I'm not sure if a lot of people realize that TYM isn't an organization, financially or in structure -- it's just Storms doing what he can out of his pocket, with help from the subscriptions and ads (which generally don't fully cover the costs of keeping a server which can handle the high loads TYM gets around announcements and events, plus the costs of paying for the changes and fixes that often need to be made to the website). And me taking care of a lot of the day-to-day administrative stuff that Storms is too busy to be able to do. But that's something you can get around with crowdfunding kind of like the recent campaigns for the upgrades, so it's possible.

In any case, all these ideas are welcome. I'm just sharing the other side of things and thinking out loud.

 

[Charybdis]

You know the way you don't see a blueprint?

https://testyourmight.com/threads/gofundme-for-the-tym-upgrade.67563/

Now you do

On point, I agree with Crimson.

 

[Deleted member 5032]

You know the way you don't see a blueprint?

https://testyourmight.com/threads/gofundme-for-the-tym-upgrade.67563/

Now you do

On point, I agree with Crimson.

That's not a blueprint, that's generic information. Wtf does "Updated Events System" mean? Nothing. I sure can't want for that "Pro-Suite" so I can visit TYM more...efficiently? Not saying I'm not excited about the updates, but that tells us nothing about what to expect. There is no specific information or feature mentioned that would lead to more traffic.

 

[Eldriken]

All while cleaning up the damn character forums. Just a thought.

This is something I'm working on discussing with Storms. It is at the forefront of my agenda. If all goes according to plan and the idea gets approved, it will no longer be an issue. I promise you that.

 

[STORMS]

@CrimsonShadow hit it on point... but I also don't see how this isn't obvious already.

Hiring people to run tournaments would cost thousands of dollars... this has been discussed here and there between myself and @Shock YEARS ago. Fortunately for me @Shock actually knows the ins and outs... unlike me.

Bottom-line, TYM is and has been focused on giving the players a place to talk about NRS games, tournaments, etc. Well, allow me to clarify... when Injustice GAU was announced we changed to "NetherRealm Studios discussion" rather than just MK. For those who do wish to come here, use the site for its features, make friends, network, get games in, get their tournament accommodations in order, etc... TYM is online for you (regardless, if I have stepped away in the past... the bills are still paid, for you).

I am very exciting about the changes coming. These changes are scheduled to be fully implemented by the time MK11 drops.

So, if you'd rather talk on Twitter, Discord, Facebook groups, other MK forums, etc, etc, etc... nothing is stopping you.

TEST YOUR MIGHT.

 

[Shock]

@STORMS , this is what I wanted to talk to you about recently, a shift in focus to give people a reason to come to the site that creates something similar to what the Smash community has, in that they don't depend on big events to keep their momentum going. All of you know I keep away from TYM as much as possible but I'm willing to dust myself off if it means helping make something better. This might be confusing, but I do what I do, when I'm allowed to essentially.

My involvement in the community has been limited in the last couple years as I've been jumping around the FGC as a fill in sort of, so I would need to be brought up to speed on a great many things. But as I see it, because the standards for communication on the internet are moving far away from message boards, the only way for TYM to survive is to become a measuring stick in some way so NRS games have a worthwhile existence even when big money circuits aren't going on. Imagine if events would want TYM's seal of approval because it was such a thorough database for results and ranking? It will be a lot more work and realistically, never more than a labor of love, which the site already is.