Degrading Game Quality

[Joe Smith]

Any game is competitive. Even pacman with 2 nerds playing it will become a battle ground for the two (again, for the nerds).

If this is all it takes for competitiveness, than I don't get why on earth are you complaining about AC not being competitive. We have plenty of nerds battling on pubs every day. Seems to me that in your opinion is more a matter of AC not having organized competition and here is where my point lays. Being an free Open source game, AC don't have ppl that profits from organized competition and therefore can and will spend time and money into it (its a job, for them).

The reason I mentioned a ladder is that, even though one may not necessarily play for the ladder, it does make a gathering place by itself, a place that joins people together. In the case of Hi-Skill it was a little more than that, it was due to Drakas and the way he ran things that made his servers so popular. So, it is not just the ladder, but also what it stands for (No, this is in no way an insult to Pwnage, just pure difference in how different people handle the same thing). After all, ACWC, the main even in AC gaming, was organized by Drakas.

AC has to rely on contribution from its community members, like Drakas, pwnage and many other to have its organized competition. Unfortunately along side with the gameplay competition that you like so much, came also a nonsense competition for prestige and power within the community. No one won or will win this competition P@ndel, everyone will loose. It's a shame that this keeps happening and this happens caus of attitudes like the one in your first post here, where you wanna show to everyone how bad AC is now compared to what it used to be (in your opinion, of course), like was also done in the transition form 1.0 to 1.1.

If ppl keep insisting with this foolishness this game is relle not gonna go nowhere and we gonna always have this stupid clash between a hand full of clans that assume that they own the game and the game is nothing without them. Let me remind you what happened when w00p tried to support an alternative master server: It failed miserably, caus AC is nothing without the everyday noobs and newbies, they don't know w00p, TyD, oNe or DES, they couldn't care less about them, they just wanna play and have some fun. We should learn with them!

wow im in love... that was beautiful. perfectly said.

"""If ppl keep insisting with this foolishness this game is relle not gonna go nowhere and we gonna always have this stupid clash between a hand full of clans that assume that they own the game and the game is nothing without them. Let me remind you what happened when w00p tried to support an alternative master server: It failed miserably, caus AC is nothing without the everyday noobs and newbies, they don't know w00p, TyD, oNe or DES, they couldn't care less about them, they just wanna play and have some fun. We should learn with them!"""

^--AC is made up of many many dif things. and all them make AC.