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St1ckBuG

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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.

I'm really new to all of this, at least in the offline world so I am just looking for more that I can do. I'm sorry if this jump started some pessimism but I just want to figure out what I can do right now on top of what I am already doing. I didn't want the conversation to get steered that way.

The people that I meet every week tell me that bringing the setup and just even showing up is more than enough support but it doesn't feel like it is doing much of anything. I'm not too social of a person nor am I some big name nor do I have money to throw around, but I know that I will never stop playing it no matter what others say or think. I just want to know what more I can do besides play, drive my buddies who play it to local monthly tournaments, bring the only BB setup every week at my local FGC, and get in touch with the ones hosting SCR for example to ask to volunteer in order to support it. I want to figure out more efficient and effective methods to show support.

I'm sorry for necroing the thread. I should have just started a new one instead of replying here. Hell, I probably shouldn't have even started a new thread at all from the looks of how things are turning out.

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That is good support though. If you wanna do more you can start more actively seeking out interested players, starting small local events (I've done stuff where it went from 5 entrants a month to now getting enough to have proper brackets), learning more in depth about the game and creating resources and sharing those resources. Like you know how many people try to learn ASW games then quit because our learning resources are on average pretty lacking? Communicating these things not only accurately but in a way that's manageable and interesting is really hard, but ya know it pays off.

 

Big thing is people tend to follow the attitudes they see, and if a whole bunch of people are being negative they might adopt that attitude too or just say "oh that sucks, why bother?" I'm just tired of seeing it keep happening, we get negative feelings and all that but you can put those in other places and be more productive and positive where it needs to be

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I've been getting folks into BB and FGs in general recently. I just wish I could tell them to get CP, but I can't in good concious when I know CP2 could be released any time rendering their purchase useless. (These people are even more poverty than I am, which is saying something.)

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I've been getting folks into BB and FGs in general recently. I just wish I could tell them to get CP, but I can't in good concious when I know CP2 could be released any time rendering their purchase useless. (These people are even more poverty than I am, which is saying something.)

 

Yeah; I admit, even as someone who advocates for this game, it's really hard to tell someone "Yeah, buy it, don't worry about the fact that in a couple of months, you may have to buy it again." =/

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I've been getting folks into BB and FGs in general recently. I just wish I could tell them to get CP, but I can't in good concious when I know CP2 could be released any time rendering their purchase useless. (These people are even more poverty than I am, which is saying something.)

well I don't think that's true.

 

even if they patch the game, they have always in the past let you select the previous version. I see no reason this will change now.

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well I don't think that's true.

 

even if they patch the game, they have always in the past let you select the previous version. I see no reason this will change now.

 

This assumes they don't sell CP2 as a standalone product.  And since this is currently up for debate, it makes me uneasy.

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I've been getting folks into BB and FGs in general recently. I just wish I could tell them to get CP, but I can't in good concious when I know CP2 could be released any time rendering their purchase useless. (These people are even more poverty than I am, which is saying something.)

This is why I talk about waiting out the actual sequel so much, not because I think that just because I dislike CP2 means everyone has to.  We have no idea how (or if really TBH) CP2 will be handled on console, but if you want my opinion I'd say just let them get into CP1.1 as they normally would.  Since CP2's console status is uncertain, that means you have more time with the 1.1 game, so I say go for it anyway.  I know that sounds like a contradiction but if you don't mind CP2 there's no reason to quit BB until it comes out, just play what you have and get people into the series proper.  

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My scene has like no BB players, but every other anime game, including surprisingly DFC, has a decent enough size that people can play a lot.

Now what do I do? I go play the other games and try to learn, even if I was reluctant to GG if it's fun why not? I don't even have Under Night any more (gave to a friend after unconditionally game-sharing DFC) but I'll still enter it and play it.

Do I give up on BB?
Oh hell no.

I still try to get other people to come over to my setup to play, maybe even considering a free/$1 tournament just to see where they're at and maybe getting more into it. I let them borrow my Japanese Copy for a week or so and see if they have the interest for it, things like that. 

And online if someone on twitter or something asks to play, PLAY them, even if I hate netplay now. I know when CP2 comes out it hopefully will rise from it's current state of literally every other anime fighter being above it, but the community there has to be ready for it, GG was almost always there so when Xrd came they rose again.

Hopefully BB will be ready too, but I gotta make the ones who played it in my scene come out first.

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