The BB Community, EVO, Netplay, and the FGC.

[BoltofShadow]

I already pester everyone that lives near me to give Blazblue a shot, they say "what the heck is that?!"

Well that's their loss, I always have wanted to go to evo and by god, i'll do it and do whatever it takes to get into it.

Like stick said at the begining though, still young, almost done with HS, but if we keep at it we can bring our game to the main stage again.

P4A pretty much got a free pass onto the evo main stage, maybe CP will get the same?

Only time will tell.

[Ryu334]

P4A community pretty much came to every major that had it an entrants was well in the 100's which is good now if BBCP can do the same then it should be good but best thing to do is to see can NLBC host BBCP if people are gonna show up need at least 15-20 every week and 100+ for majors an also stream an talk about BB

[Nemesis]

I I always have wanted to go to evo and by god, i'll do it and do whatever it takes to get into it.

I felt exactly the same way as you back when CT hit -- I can tell you personally that its possible! Dont allow any kind of deterrence to hold you back (aside from like.. proper real life choices), and you can get there, AND its possible make an impact~ you dont have to be yet another EVO cannon fodder player

[BoltofShadow]

I felt exactly the same way as you back when CT hit -- I can tell you personally that its possible! Dont allow any kind of deterrence to hold you back (aside from like.. proper real life choices), and you can get there, AND its possible make an impact~ you dont have to be yet another EVO cannon fodder player

Day 2 on Dustloop and I already am in love with this place.

[Ryu334]

Small but maybe off topic question, will BB players show up to weeklies and majors once BBCP is out (Jp)?

[kirbster]

Montreal will

[Moy_X7]

I'll be returning to my offline scene in October and hopefully get people to play CP. If not then I'll just have to play P4A with them as that's what gets played here the most along with GG and Marvel lol.

[Ryu334]

OK I was just asking I was trying not to be offed anyone since I really like GG,bb and P4A but end up playing sf and marvel since thats what people play the most offline anyways hopefully BB the BB scene will pick up once CP drops

[BloodWolF]

I just moved to Indianapolis and will be going to weeklies pretty heavily again once this game launches. I have been absent from the FGC for the last month or two due to moving and going to JP for a bit, but I'm glad to hear there are others in the area interested in BBCP. I will be playing GG as well. I look forward to people making it out to regional tournaments for CP.

[JacopeX]

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[chzchan]

Stumbled upon this thread completely by accident and ended up reading through the entire thing. Even though all of this is a billion years old and BBCP was pretty successful at EVO, what now? Seeing how passionate people were a long time ago about this game is just a stark contrast to how things are now, or at least how they seem. After going to local monthly tournaments and bringing setups to my local FGC meet ups every week, it doesn't seem like BB is really alive right now. This is based on the amount of players that show up at either as well as their respective feelings about the state of the game. The individuals that I have run into who did go to EVO 2014 all seemed to just completely drop BB or lose interest in it almost entirely. I mean, I guess it is natural because of all of the new games coming out within the span of the last few months, but it still bothers me. Then there's the feelings of disinterest and dissatisfaction brewing for 2.0 as well based on what I have been hearing and reading for the past month or so. On top of that there is Xrd which is hitting in a few days which will draw even more away from BB. Of course I have been enjoying myself with each and every game that has come out so far and I will with Xrd as well, but I am just really worried about BB right now.

I am speaking from severe inexperience here when I say that I feel like the factors contributing to BB's death right now are stacked so high that I am surprised BB has not completely suffocated under them so correct me if I am wrong. I know I joined all too late in this, but I want to be able to help somehow.

[Tong]

Nothing can be done about that, the game isnt doing well even in Japan. Some players said that the 2.0 update didnt make the game anymore interesting, and there are other titles now like DFC, P4U and Xrd. It's just the anime life cycle.

Today BB may not be popular as it was but just wait until a new sequel is announced, it's gonna probably outshine everything else.

[Myoro]

Nothing can be done about that, the game isnt doing well even in Japan. Some players said that the 2.0 update didnt make the game anymore interesting, and there are other titles now like DFC, P4U and Xrd. It's just the anime life cycle.

Today BB may not be popular as it was but just wait until a new sequel is announced, it's gonna probably outshine everything else.

 

I heard Dentucky Fried Chicken isn't actually doing very well. Amoung other things I've heard I've heard people call BBCP "The best one yet."

 

Xrd is happening soon, so that /could coup de grace BBCP's remaining player-base, but I'll always be playing BB if that helps. Recently, however I've noticed an ever so slight increase in players playing BBCP online though, whether this is a sign for things to come or a brief anomaly.

 

My car's still half broke/half fixed from the fire incident, so I can't support the community as much as I'd like offline...

 

I know DL is against casting Necromancy on threads, but if ever a thread should be revived, this is the one.

[Airk]

I'm going to keep playing CP for the foreseeable future.  Unless I decide to bail for CSE on Steam. ;P

 

I have game loyalty, damnit.

[Ragnarok_F4]

Over here people keep playing it. Of course that with so many games it dies a little bit, but people still asks for BB after some rounds of other games. Same with Persona and I hope that the same occurs with GG. GG has been long dead here without new iterations, I really want Xrd to keep up the popularity increase that BB and Persona got. I've heard here that Xrd is not played a lot in Japan also, since many of the older players didn't migrate from the old GG's (don't know what to believe lol).... But the 3 games will be fine, like tong said is a cycle, the one with the closest release has the spotlight on it, but the others are there and are being played (as long as ASW keep working on them).

[Poultrygeist]

Like Tong said 2.0 was the worst thing they could have done.  It changed the game in a way that makes most people either unhappy,bored or apathetic.  An actual sequel will probably fix that.

[Anne]

I'm so tired of "BB is dying" or "2.0 is terrible, it killed BB." Really, really a game dies when its playerbase aka YOU GUYS decide to stop playing it and pushing it. If you like a game or series, you support it best you can until you just can't anymore. You wanna avoid "the anime cycle"? Play your game, pump up your game, do what you can for events. Going on a forum and speaking of doom is just self fulfilling prophecies and helps solve nothing. And if a new version comes out that you personally don't like? You can stop playing it. A new version comes out that other people don't like but you wanna play? Well it doesn't matter, you can play it, and you can find like minded people or create and build the community for that yourselves.

So seriously, stop with this "oh god it's dying and new version is going to be dead" bullshit. If you like something play it, support it, build on it. You don't like it? Then fucking quit yourself and let the other people who do like it build up what they can.

Point is you want a community, you want a living game, then shut up and play it and build positive support up. Don't create your own pessimistic future.

[Rhiya]

What that man said is the truth, and it applies for every damn game. If you like your game, fucking play it. The best way to support your game is to play it with other people, and the best way to kill a game is to not play it.

Do I like BBCP 2.0? Nope. But I'm not you, and I shouldn't matter to whether or not you choose to play it. Play what you like, don't drop it, and support the scene, and you'll be better off (and happier) for it. End of story.

[Nemo-_-]

Like Tong said 2.0 was the worst thing they could have done.  It changed the game in a way that makes most people either unhappy,bored or apathetic.  An actual sequel will probably fix that.

 

Yeah, people just need to be patient and wait for the sequel. I remember checking some Japanese arcade rankings a lot and Blazblue 2.0/USFIV were almost always above GG Xrd. That's a good sign.

[Zouf]

Things are not so easy as "Just play the game you like and you'll be able to play it with others people"

 

Where I live, there is about nobody who I can play with offline, only netplay remains. And we all know netplay isn't exactly the best way to play a fighting game.

 

The fact that the game IS appealing is very important.

[Anne]

Things are not so easy as "Just play the game you like and you'll be able to play it with others people"

 

Where I live, there is about nobody who I can play with offline, only netplay remains. And we all know netplay isn't exactly the best way to play a fighting game.

 

The fact that the game IS appealing is very important.

Where I live you know how many people play Persona? Fucking zero. So you know what I do? I do netplay because I need to. I help run/commentate netplay events. I travel to other tournaments, some just a few hours, some where I need to drive all day or take a plane. I contribute in the most positive way I can while furthering myself as a player. And you know what? It's fucking hard. I'm not always happy with it, I often times want to give up. But you know, I stick with it. Now I help with these forums, I help contribute to strong video projects, and I network myself through the scene. I run local tournaments and now I'm helping run a major in January that believes in our scene and has given us money.

And if you're in a position where you can't do that, you can't work hard, you don't have the means, that's completely understandable. Sometimes life just doesn't work that way. But I promise you there are better things you can do for yourself as a player or this community then come onto here and bitch and talk about how dead and terrible everything is going to be and predict doom. Yeah, there are down times (like right now I won't lie or sugarcoat shit), but if you want to make something more of it you just suck it up and deal with it and work hard until the good times come again. And if YOU think something gets to a point where it's not worth it, you can walk away, but don't downplay the hard work others do.

Also yeah a game has to be appealing, no shit. But games appeal to a lot of people in a lot of different ways. If you find any amount of people who like the game you play and you can make anything of it that's good enough for me. Again, if it's not good enough for you you can just fucking quit.

[Arcknight]

Personally speaking, when "game" gets released, only to be shortly followed up with "game 2.0 coming real soon", I think it really kills the excitement.  At least for me.  I would like a little more time between iterations.

 

The very fact that everyone knows when "game's" time is "up" is depressing.  It is almost like the old computer hardware jokes.  "As soon as you get your new rig up and running its already very-obsolete."  Granted one cannot simply invest in -nothing-, but it is sometimes hard to shake the fact.

 

I am not really sure if this is an "anime" game problem so much as a symptom of a saturated market.  People are going all over the place to new games and imports all the time and playerbases are being fractured constantly as a result.  Online communities rapidly become total ghosttowns.

 

Like Zouf above me, I only really have netplay.  Whether I would like to support a game or not is irrelevant without a dedicated playerbase.  Offline communities can probably handle the load a little easier since it is far more social.

 

These are probably irrational thoughts(very likely in fact), but they are also probably not uncommon.

[Rhiya]

Every time you don't play a game you'd otherwise play because it has a "small playerbase," you just -kept- that playerbase from growing.

 

Furthermore, the problem you're talking about with people gamehopping is exactly why we're bloody saying to play the game you like and stick with it. New releases don't kill old games; players migrating around to new games for no reason other than that they're shiny and new kills old games. It's stupid. Play what you like, and don't buy into the new game hype unless you love that new game yourself.

[Zouf]

Where I live you know how many people play Persona? Fucking zero. So you know what I do? I do netplay because I need to. I help run/commentate netplay events. I travel to other tournaments, some just a few hours, some where I need to drive all day or take a plane. I contribute in the most positive way I can while furthering myself as a player. And you know what? It's fucking hard. I'm not always happy with it, I often times want to give up. But you know, I stick with it. Now I help with these forums, I help contribute to strong video projects, and I network myself through the scene. I run local tournaments and now I'm helping run a major in January that believes in our scene and has given us money.

And if you're in a position where you can't do that, you can't work hard, you don't have the means, that's completely understandable. Sometimes life just doesn't work that way. But I promise you there are better things you can do for yourself as a player or this community then come onto here and bitch and talk about how dead and terrible everything is going to be and predict doom. Yeah, there are down times (like right now I won't lie or sugarcoat shit), but if you want to make something more of it you just suck it up and deal with it and work hard until the good times come again. And if YOU think something gets to a point where it's not worth it, you can walk away, but don't downplay the hard work others do.

Also yeah a game has to be appealing, no shit. But games appeal to a lot of people in a lot of different ways. If you find any amount of people who like the game you play and you can make anything of it that's good enough for me. Again, if it's not good enough for you you can just fucking quit.

You are very aggressive.

[Poultrygeist]

Every time you don't play a game you'd otherwise play because it has a "small playerbase," you just -kept- that playerbase from growing.

 

Bingo.

 

It's not easy,but the best thing you can do is at least try and make your game look appealing to your friends.  I too know how intimidating it can be to try and introduce your game to your local playerbase, but if you don't try you'll never get anywhere.  Even if it's just as simple as something like "Hey man, I really like this game and I think you should check it out" that's at least an endeavor itself.  I really can't think of a reason why you'd refuse to play a game you like because it's "dead" unless you're playing for lots of money and using that to sustain itself, and good luck making a living out of playing anime games in the US lol.  So yeah, just try and see if you can get people interested in your game.  Bring your copy, a setup, whatever works for you.  Trying and failing is at least better than being miserable about results that aren't guaranteed.