03 Mar 13, 04:03PM
1. What are your views on the state of competitive AC?
It's inactive, tournaments and ACWC will boost the activity a little, but players are always the same and player base isn't growing.
2. Do you believe inters are still a valuable source of good competitive AC games?
They will always have their place in this game, but compared to clan wars they lack seriousness.
The reason why AC inter wasn't used anymore is that everyone is hanging around in TS or irc channels and instead of using systems like that, they will simply ask others directly. The bot was also annoying.
3. Would you like to see a tourney or a league? Why?
Sooner or later, yes. Competitions job is to give a purpose for the clan matches.
4. Would you consider playing in Pick Up Games (PUGs)? ie similar to what the former acinter tried to do, and set times for games to be played?
Possibly.
5. Any other things you'd like to say?
I see several reasons for the current state of competitive AC scene:
1. New players don't even know that there's such thing as competitive scene in this game. If you go to the pubs and ask them if they know about it, they will be like "What?" and laugh.
This is why a build in PUG system would be good: it's a signal to the players that it's possible to play this game competitively.
2. The game isn't really made for competitive play. Some important features that should have been there for years are currently in "planning state".
3. The game just isn't attractive enough for the current generation of gamers. People only care about graphics, vehicles and other "cool features".
4. New players are really alone in this game. They just jump in through some ugly and not so well made menus and end up playing a game, but so what? There needs to be something that makes you play more. Unlike many "engineer minded" people think, good products don't really sell themselves.
If you want to play competitively, you need to find like minded people of similar skill level in game to play with you. Personally, if I had never met kingCHUBBY, I would not play this game anymore.
It's inactive, tournaments and ACWC will boost the activity a little, but players are always the same and player base isn't growing.
2. Do you believe inters are still a valuable source of good competitive AC games?
They will always have their place in this game, but compared to clan wars they lack seriousness.
The reason why AC inter wasn't used anymore is that everyone is hanging around in TS or irc channels and instead of using systems like that, they will simply ask others directly. The bot was also annoying.
3. Would you like to see a tourney or a league? Why?
Sooner or later, yes. Competitions job is to give a purpose for the clan matches.
4. Would you consider playing in Pick Up Games (PUGs)? ie similar to what the former acinter tried to do, and set times for games to be played?
Possibly.
5. Any other things you'd like to say?
I see several reasons for the current state of competitive AC scene:
1. New players don't even know that there's such thing as competitive scene in this game. If you go to the pubs and ask them if they know about it, they will be like "What?" and laugh.
This is why a build in PUG system would be good: it's a signal to the players that it's possible to play this game competitively.
2. The game isn't really made for competitive play. Some important features that should have been there for years are currently in "planning state".
3. The game just isn't attractive enough for the current generation of gamers. People only care about graphics, vehicles and other "cool features".
4. New players are really alone in this game. They just jump in through some ugly and not so well made menus and end up playing a game, but so what? There needs to be something that makes you play more. Unlike many "engineer minded" people think, good products don't really sell themselves.
If you want to play competitively, you need to find like minded people of similar skill level in game to play with you. Personally, if I had never met kingCHUBBY, I would not play this game anymore.