Do you guys think that competitive gaming is dead fullstop? Not just for the UT series, but for other games as well.
Clans etc were at their peak when UT came out, and started getting really popular when Quake 2 \ TFC came out. You could go in the server browser, and you can guarantee that you can see 8 odd English UT CTF servers full, with players you know who have “reputations” in the scene. I can name loads. Wireplay, Jolt, Gamesinferno, Barrysworld, MPZ, Demon CTF etc. IF I remember Gamesinferno had around 5 CTF servers that held 16 players, and they were mostly full, the Face Only servers on Jolt, were full, and THAT was just for the UK alone
Now multiplayer communitys just seem to be……. Dead, the Jolt and Wireplay forums used to be packed with new posts every hour when they are not playing, playing UT was part of a lot of peoples lifes (how sad does that sound!?). You go on the Jolt \ Clanbase \ Wireplay forums now, and nobody posts.
I thought that it was just UT, until I checked the Counterstrike forums, which are just as bad, where are the main game supplier servers? Theres nothing like Barrysworld, Jolt, Gamesinferno anymore, most of the servers just seem to be ones hooked up at their unis, or at work. Prounreal has just turned into a total joke with whining brats (that place used to be respectable in its hayday). The above not only applys to competitive players, but casual players as well.
When UT2003\4 first came out, there were hardly no clans that started, I can only name two English clans (MD and DOA). Nobody really gave UT2003\4 a chance or just got bored of it in the first hour or so of playing, people had the attitude of “been there done that”. Quake 4 was the same, the game was near enough the same as Quake 3 (but with crappier maps) and it flopped, the people playing games now are totally different to when we first started playing games. People didn’t care about “powerup timings”, “item placement” “spam”. Peoples standards are a lot higher now than what they ever were. November was classed as a brilliant map in UT, but it had to be the most unbalanced map I have ever played, it was a lot of fun mind you, but nobody cared that the bases were different. Same goes for Coret, nobody cared that one team had a extra rocket pack than the other side. If a map like November was in UT2004, it would have been classed as “n00b” in the first minute of playing, and people will forget about it
I do really think that UT2007 is going to go the same way as Quake 4 unless they make ONS and Conquest take off, they need to find brand new players and try not to rely on the core players as much. No matter what people think, CTF and DM are going to be a secondary gametype for newbie players. We all want UT2007 to do well, but nothing will bring back thousands of players, it can be the best game of all time, but people now just aren’t interested
Am I just getting old? Or are multiplayer games now just dead, theres no massive leagues going (I cant name a CS one on top off my head), its not covered in computer magazines anymore. Do you think all of the “semi-serious” players have moved onto games like WoW?
Clans etc were at their peak when UT came out, and started getting really popular when Quake 2 \ TFC came out. You could go in the server browser, and you can guarantee that you can see 8 odd English UT CTF servers full, with players you know who have “reputations” in the scene. I can name loads. Wireplay, Jolt, Gamesinferno, Barrysworld, MPZ, Demon CTF etc. IF I remember Gamesinferno had around 5 CTF servers that held 16 players, and they were mostly full, the Face Only servers on Jolt, were full, and THAT was just for the UK alone
Now multiplayer communitys just seem to be……. Dead, the Jolt and Wireplay forums used to be packed with new posts every hour when they are not playing, playing UT was part of a lot of peoples lifes (how sad does that sound!?). You go on the Jolt \ Clanbase \ Wireplay forums now, and nobody posts.
I thought that it was just UT, until I checked the Counterstrike forums, which are just as bad, where are the main game supplier servers? Theres nothing like Barrysworld, Jolt, Gamesinferno anymore, most of the servers just seem to be ones hooked up at their unis, or at work. Prounreal has just turned into a total joke with whining brats (that place used to be respectable in its hayday). The above not only applys to competitive players, but casual players as well.
When UT2003\4 first came out, there were hardly no clans that started, I can only name two English clans (MD and DOA). Nobody really gave UT2003\4 a chance or just got bored of it in the first hour or so of playing, people had the attitude of “been there done that”. Quake 4 was the same, the game was near enough the same as Quake 3 (but with crappier maps) and it flopped, the people playing games now are totally different to when we first started playing games. People didn’t care about “powerup timings”, “item placement” “spam”. Peoples standards are a lot higher now than what they ever were. November was classed as a brilliant map in UT, but it had to be the most unbalanced map I have ever played, it was a lot of fun mind you, but nobody cared that the bases were different. Same goes for Coret, nobody cared that one team had a extra rocket pack than the other side. If a map like November was in UT2004, it would have been classed as “n00b” in the first minute of playing, and people will forget about it
I do really think that UT2007 is going to go the same way as Quake 4 unless they make ONS and Conquest take off, they need to find brand new players and try not to rely on the core players as much. No matter what people think, CTF and DM are going to be a secondary gametype for newbie players. We all want UT2007 to do well, but nothing will bring back thousands of players, it can be the best game of all time, but people now just aren’t interested
Am I just getting old? Or are multiplayer games now just dead, theres no massive leagues going (I cant name a CS one on top off my head), its not covered in computer magazines anymore. Do you think all of the “semi-serious” players have moved onto games like WoW?
