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[Bridget]

desperate and would only inspire a temporary fanbase

[GenghisTron]

Originally Posted by Hawk Eye

What he posted would suggest the 1000 to be broken up differently depending on the ladder- Plat might get 500, Gold 250, Silver 150, Bronze 100 or something.

If you lowball yourself into a lower bracket (which could be stopped using Steam_IDs), the maximum amount of money you could win is greatly lessened.

Personally, I'd like to think that the fun factor of a more competitive bracket would be enough, but that won't hold for a lot of people.

I've played with some of the people in the pickup community. I wouldn't put anything past a few of them. A lot of FF players are players from TFC, and in TFC there were a lot of hackers, and there were a lot of people who were aliasing to circumvent bans, and many of them were never caught. A steam ID won't protect you from fraud.

Originally Posted by Scuzzy

Money.

Money will make people play temporarily. What happens when the tournament is over? How are you going to get people to stick around?

I also think we're missing the most obvious point here;

Make the game appealing to new players.

[zE]

Originally Posted by WarPig

If I offered up $1000 in cash for a FF tourny with divisions so that People got to play in skill levels of their own, and each division had a final winner for a lump sum...

You think we could pull in a good crowd? I know a lot more involvement is needed aside from just saying it and I am going to be able to support it all along with web service , etc.. just wondering on the topic.

Also for the others who say they won't play FF cuz it's too E - Z ... ya think some cash would get their attention to play ?

Money prize would help for sure, no doubt it would be a extra incentive, but this topic is a bit misleading because I know for a fact that you can´t even pay for 15 dolars server so how you gonna get 1000 lol.

[chilledsanity]

Originally Posted by Scuzzy

Money.

Possibly a couple, but I doubt it. Look at it this way:

Say a mod you haven't played before announced that it's giving away money for the winner of a tournament. Would you really go download the mod, train at it, then assume you can get better at it than everyone you'll be competing against in time before the tournament starts?

Or would you assume "Hey, I've never played this mod before and this prize money will probably bring out the die hard players in it that will kick my ass. I think I'll save myself the effort."

Of course if someone has a raging ego, they might make assumption #1, but I doubt most people would.

[KubeDawg]

Originally Posted by Bridget

desperate and would only inspire a temporary fanbase

Agreed

[chilledsanity]

Yeah, if you want a temporary fanbase increase, a patch will do that for free.

[cjeshjoir™]

Originally Posted by chilledsanity

Yeah, if you want a temporary fanbase increase, a patch will do that for free.

Im not so sure about that....

[glass 2.0]

Dear lord, and ppl complain that this mod is dead. Go for it dude, nevermind the fucking naysayers. Definately better than doing nothing.

[CHURCHMOUTH]

im so sick of people bashing everyone for trying to do good in this community, cjesh or w/e partial schism to name a few, this guys trying to bring life to a game some of us love will you please go play your fucking tf2 and stupid other bullshit and stop posing ur negative shit in our forums, srsly partial why do u still post here man? fuck off already

edit: go ahead and remove this post and keep thoes other faggots posts up it doesnt bother me anymore

[Ricey]

Originally Posted by CHURCHMOUTH

im so sick of people bashing everyone for trying to do good in this community, cjesh or w/e partial schism to name a few, this guys trying to bring life to a game some of us love will you please go play your fucking tf2 and stupid other bullshit and stop posing ur negative shit in our forums, srsly partial why do u still post here man? fuck off already

edit: go ahead and remove this post and keep thoes other faggots posts up it doesnt bother me anymore

+1

Seriously, why the fuck are you here if you are saying FF is dead.

If FF is soo fucking dead, then fuck off, go play with yourselfs.

Oh, cjeshjoir, stfu. Annoying cunt bag.

[Elmo]

calm it people - else I'll get my penis out.

[cjeshjoir™]

Whoa dudes, I didn't realize you two needed a hug THAT BADLY. Come here, let momma fondle your genitals, everything will be OK.

[PartialSchism]

Exo the fuck is your problem. Dunno what I did to you, but whatever. Looks like you're mad that FF will eventually die. Everything good must come to an end, so suck it up, and find something better to do.

edit:
And as for why I'm still here? I would love to see this game thrive, so I like to keep an eye on things. But I feel this will never happen, especially with *upstanding gentleman* like you guys.

[Bridget]

Fortress Forever is not a biological entity so death isn't a permanent state. The people who still hang around despite the game being presently dead might have some optimism that it could someday get some of its life back. Of course, every attempt at advertising the game from spamming forums to making videos to hosting tournaments with money ends up being a temporary solution, because the problem is not public relations. The problem is not making the game accessible. It's on the most popular virtual distribution system. It's a free game. It practically sells itself in that regard.

I see people join Fortress Forever all the time. I see new faces every time I join the Talos server. The problem is that these new faces never come back. When you survey these individuals, the same responses are always given to you. The game is too much a niche game-mode, where the skill threshold is too high, and beginner integration is insane. The community is absolutely terrible (filled with elitists) save for those few rare kind souls. Last, there's nothing to keep you motivated. The game has no direction. No incentive. We should just call it 'Join a Pub and Deathmatch Fortress', because that's what it is.

@Exo: I don't know how fucking ignorant you are, but PartialSchism has done more for this modification than a lot of people have. Most of the custom content available for this mod is directly from him. People are allowed to have critical opinions. It's called life. Learn to deal with it. Besides, you ever heard of constructive criticism? Criticizing something doesn't mean you hate it.

This idea, while it has good intentions, would fail. It would inspire only a temporary fanbase. It's a desperate tactic. Do you think the people would stick around after the tournament were over? Maybe they would in anticipation for another tournament. If they did manage to stick around, we would have to question: Are they here because they honestly love this game or because we're so desperate we have to pay people to be interested? It's a bad idea.

[CHURCHMOUTH]

im not ignorant im just tired of seeing people with ideas get shot down by people who dont even play the game and are turned off by the whole thing as a result

ps partial schisms custom content sucks

[PartialSchism]

Originally Posted by CHURCHMOUTH

ps partial schisms custom content sucks

So do your maps, what's your point? That both of us have wasted our time for the good of a game, to have a few people not appreciate it? Such is life.

[Bridget]

The idea got shot down because it's a bad idea. It might have good intentions, but it isn't going to do much for the mod. Someone will leave with a handful of cash, and we'll be right back in the same situation with maybe a few more people who only stick around because they were bribed to do so.

[CHURCHMOUTH]

its only a bad idea to the people who have no chance of winning the money like yourselves

you know damn well i would be getting sum of dat

[GenghisTron]

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[PartialSchism]

For real... Hakuna Matata guys.