29 Jun 14, 12:33AM
Using list points inappropriately and arbitrarily for the sake of argument could be fun here... Let's try it....
1) CoD is developed by massive game companies with multi-million dollar budgets that are padded by multi-million dollar advertising budgets... They had better make games that trump AC on the kind of change dumped on 'em.... And with all of the hype, ofc they have all kind of people jumping to the next edition every time they release one...
2) CoD is proprietary, overpriced(imo) software which segregates platforms in Multiplayer(afaik)
3) You are never gonna see CoD run on a freaking toaster, not gonna happen....
4) Most CoD kids have terrible attitudes and egos and banter on so much it makes me thankful everyday we don't have native voip chat support in AC...
5) CoD data costs GB's of space.....
6) CoD community is completely over-sized and not unified...
7) Unless you have an epic PC, you gonna get raped paying for a console...
8) Too much hate - While heavy on resources, expensive, and proprietary, CoD fully immerses users in multiplayer online, realistic War game environments tailored to keeping the next generation of over-stimulated youth glitching and prestiging their way through life...
9) I am going to quit hating on CoD right now, as it is detracting from my love for AC....
10) AC is a free, open-source, cross-platform game developed by volunteers...
11) Outside of the infrequent nickel and dime donations received, AC operates on No real budget...
12) AC has a dedicated community of Hobby gamers and coders that don't give a shit that you think this game is dead and outmoded....
13) 25 Million+ log lines and nearly 40000 demos stored on my servers since March say there is some, if only a marginal, amount of life still in this game...
14) I have met all kind of noob and veteran players (in AC) that are pretty awesome people, including many professional adults that are much more fun to play with than all of the snot-nosed Ego brats that need to pull their CoD syringe out before they become obese vegetables living on disability checks in their parent's basement...
15) Sorry if that hit close to home, you may want to reconsider your life priorities...
16) AC has no real driving team of advertising agents and executives pushing for the games success.... Quite frankly, I am ok with this...
17) AC is the cumulative result of years of effort on behalf of volunteer developers, artists, and moderators....
18) AC began at something like 19MB and is still sitting at < 60MB currently on the Official Download... If you collect every map and package you find, you might be able to really pile up GB's on your HDD... Most don't, but it is possible...
19) And now for a little hate for AC to give realism...
20) Shrinking competitive scene - (I won't argue this, but note how many "competitive" players hang around complaining about how dead AC is whilst not actually even playing AC...Just sayin')
21) Development team is, generally speaking from my own perspective, mired in red tape created by reliance on a very small circle of trust... This is not intended to focus blame or criticize, just stating one view I have had from a limited experience participating in this forum...
22) AC is now a "throwback" game that has seen stagnant growth in recent years due to the number of more advanced games and hardware currently available... This may be true... But it is still an impressive volunteer work of it's own, especially when compared to the games of the "80s" that killerjoe has demonstrated he knows nothing about...
23) The forum is often too far outweighed by the voices of so many egotists, who are the first to jump at correcting people for minor garbage, even if they knew what the person was trying to communicate...
Just too many snarky kids that haven't really done anything in their life yet trying to condescend on to other people who are at least making an effort to participate...
Which leads to...
24) Not enough appreciation for participation, and especially when it comes to noobs... (killerjoe is an exception, I felt bad when he left the community the first time, now I wish I hadn't)
But, quite simply, I have had enough of all of the snarky egotists running off the noobs...
Point blank - some of these people contribute nothing and take a dump on everyone who gives them the chance... That is fine, but this is me telling those people, it actually isn't fine and you are shitty people even if you will never will/have-to care about it...
TL;DR
To me, there is still a lot of potential for improving and refining AssaultCube, regardless of all of the odd feature-sets people incessantly propose...
It is far from a perfect game by any Universal standard...
But it isn't CoD, it isn't gonna be CoD, and I'm done reading comparisons made by video game addicts that were too busy to learn any historical facts whilst building up their gaming resume... And I am done hearing people who don't want to propose an actual commit to the project whining about how every multi-million dollar proprietary game they play is better than AssaultCube... Go play those games non-coders - I'll keep the noobs.... Thanks....
1) CoD is developed by massive game companies with multi-million dollar budgets that are padded by multi-million dollar advertising budgets... They had better make games that trump AC on the kind of change dumped on 'em.... And with all of the hype, ofc they have all kind of people jumping to the next edition every time they release one...
2) CoD is proprietary, overpriced(imo) software which segregates platforms in Multiplayer(afaik)
3) You are never gonna see CoD run on a freaking toaster, not gonna happen....
4) Most CoD kids have terrible attitudes and egos and banter on so much it makes me thankful everyday we don't have native voip chat support in AC...
5) CoD data costs GB's of space.....
6) CoD community is completely over-sized and not unified...
7) Unless you have an epic PC, you gonna get raped paying for a console...
8) Too much hate - While heavy on resources, expensive, and proprietary, CoD fully immerses users in multiplayer online, realistic War game environments tailored to keeping the next generation of over-stimulated youth glitching and prestiging their way through life...
9) I am going to quit hating on CoD right now, as it is detracting from my love for AC....
10) AC is a free, open-source, cross-platform game developed by volunteers...
11) Outside of the infrequent nickel and dime donations received, AC operates on No real budget...
12) AC has a dedicated community of Hobby gamers and coders that don't give a shit that you think this game is dead and outmoded....
13) 25 Million+ log lines and nearly 40000 demos stored on my servers since March say there is some, if only a marginal, amount of life still in this game...
14) I have met all kind of noob and veteran players (in AC) that are pretty awesome people, including many professional adults that are much more fun to play with than all of the snot-nosed Ego brats that need to pull their CoD syringe out before they become obese vegetables living on disability checks in their parent's basement...
15) Sorry if that hit close to home, you may want to reconsider your life priorities...
16) AC has no real driving team of advertising agents and executives pushing for the games success.... Quite frankly, I am ok with this...
17) AC is the cumulative result of years of effort on behalf of volunteer developers, artists, and moderators....
18) AC began at something like 19MB and is still sitting at < 60MB currently on the Official Download... If you collect every map and package you find, you might be able to really pile up GB's on your HDD... Most don't, but it is possible...
19) And now for a little hate for AC to give realism...
20) Shrinking competitive scene - (I won't argue this, but note how many "competitive" players hang around complaining about how dead AC is whilst not actually even playing AC...Just sayin')
21) Development team is, generally speaking from my own perspective, mired in red tape created by reliance on a very small circle of trust... This is not intended to focus blame or criticize, just stating one view I have had from a limited experience participating in this forum...
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Spoiler22) AC is now a "throwback" game that has seen stagnant growth in recent years due to the number of more advanced games and hardware currently available... This may be true... But it is still an impressive volunteer work of it's own, especially when compared to the games of the "80s" that killerjoe has demonstrated he knows nothing about...
23) The forum is often too far outweighed by the voices of so many egotists, who are the first to jump at correcting people for minor garbage, even if they knew what the person was trying to communicate...
Just too many snarky kids that haven't really done anything in their life yet trying to condescend on to other people who are at least making an effort to participate...
Which leads to...
24) Not enough appreciation for participation, and especially when it comes to noobs... (killerjoe is an exception, I felt bad when he left the community the first time, now I wish I hadn't)
But, quite simply, I have had enough of all of the snarky egotists running off the noobs...
Point blank - some of these people contribute nothing and take a dump on everyone who gives them the chance... That is fine, but this is me telling those people, it actually isn't fine and you are shitty people even if you will never will/have-to care about it...
TL;DR
To me, there is still a lot of potential for improving and refining AssaultCube, regardless of all of the odd feature-sets people incessantly propose...
It is far from a perfect game by any Universal standard...
But it isn't CoD, it isn't gonna be CoD, and I'm done reading comparisons made by video game addicts that were too busy to learn any historical facts whilst building up their gaming resume... And I am done hearing people who don't want to propose an actual commit to the project whining about how every multi-million dollar proprietary game they play is better than AssaultCube... Go play those games non-coders - I'll keep the noobs.... Thanks....