I knew a friend of mine who plays CoD4 3 days after CoD4 launch. Recently he quit playing which reason of "bad community". He is from Penang. I have no idea what he says, but apparently local have way too many of casual clan or some 15 YO brat who is trying to have some fun while some of us are trying to improve. I understand that we're striving to maintain the number of clan and is trying to build their confidence so that they can play a lil competitive more. But I've seen not much of improvement if you were to compare teams that continue being as casual clan and teams eventually turn themselves into a clan.
When they doesn't turn into competitive players eventhough we are trying to build them, who do we turn to? Our usual regular scrim fellow? Like Sanction said, that's why we have a bunch of "competitive"-ish players who have won nothing to join the amateur league, and there will be leagues like PRO league, Champions league, or even <insertyouleaguenamehere> will be going on, IF we were able to get more number of players to join us, who is competitive and hungry for glory.
Even in SRC. When I saw a group of people using a similar tag, I'd asked them for scrim. But they'll just knock me off with reasons like "not good enough", "we not clan, we just friends.." or even "someday". Heck the someday for them is like some billion or zillion years later cause everytime I ask them, they giving me same answer. My clan as well, is trying to build some players around SRC. Although there's some response, but there will not be enough if you were to compare with DotA because they still dominate in all the areas. Solely because there are still sponsors willing to sponsor for their tournament, where as CoD4 was just celebrate their first anniversary.
My definition of team is more like saying the teams in Garena, where only a bunch of player who are interested in particular game, but never even take an effort to contribute, travel, or join any event host locally. In other way, clan to me, is more like ESP, RnF, FFF, where they willing to travel, make an effort to contribute, or even actively join a local tournament. Sorry if I offended anyone, but playing online solely doesn't convince me that you are a clan. I'm not saying that teams from Garena are all sucked as hell, but I don't think players in Garena would want to play more competitively, communicate during their gameplay, or even bother to use the team chat. The time they use the team chat probably is when the game ends, they spam just to spoil the player's ears.
Like kenix said, the mod isn't really matter when there is insufficient players playing in it if the mod isn't liked by everyone, the community. But if you were to implement it way before the players can adapt, it will cause nothing but less players playing in that particular mod. Again, Sanction did mention about pyramid theory. The population of the lowest part is taking up too many spaces, till the fact that it causes unbalance, if you ask me. How many players
DO actually follow the rules when there is one in particular server?
Like I said previously, when there is demanding, there will be supplies. You can supply lil by lil, but you can't expect all the players like the content of the supplies that you are supplying.
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