Glyph
Moderator
Open the back room content to the playerbase entirely.
Look, the notion of a back room has accomplished nothing lately save for alienating new content from the few people who are truly dedicated to the mod and its success. As someone who's been part of said room, I get it. It feels really cool to be in the secret ruling class type thing, but at this point what is it REALLY accomplishing? I don't want to dig up when this version was supposed to be released, but we're on a time scale of literal years.
YEARS. Brawl Minus 4.0 was announced in late 2014. 4.0b dropped just under a year after in 2015, and 4.0bc a year after that in 2016. Looking over the announcement threads, you can find lots of lots of teasing of what neat things are coming in the 4.0 build, but good god its borderline insulting to your fans to announce a version and then take the route that's been taken.
Even then, you -still- have posters waiting patiently for new content that's, in quite a few cases, already playable. Is it done? No, but god good I can remember being one of those people waiting for that next new build and all the cool stuff that comes with it. Its time for a little realism here. Yes it would be amazing to see a competitive scene emerge for minus, or have it featured on anther's and see the playerbase grow. Keeping the releases in neat bundles as has been done in past keeps everything standardized and prevents people from needing constant updates, and would be a necessity to make any of those goals a reality.
But even with the most amazing, well polished, innovative build you guys can dream up... the clock has kinda just ticked on. I know that sounds super cynical and I'm not saying it to belittle all the hard work that's gone into this, but brawl and all of its subsets are largely novelties now. The people who care about minus are already here.
So come on. Show some kindness to the people who really do still love this mod, and let them in from the cold they've been stuck in for an obscene amount of time. Let the theorycrafting and superiority complexes end. You're all minus fans at heart, and I think its time the perspective shift from a back room to a community of fans.
Food for thought from someone who used to feel the same as how I imagine the posters these days must.
PS: unnerf ROB
Look, the notion of a back room has accomplished nothing lately save for alienating new content from the few people who are truly dedicated to the mod and its success. As someone who's been part of said room, I get it. It feels really cool to be in the secret ruling class type thing, but at this point what is it REALLY accomplishing? I don't want to dig up when this version was supposed to be released, but we're on a time scale of literal years.
YEARS. Brawl Minus 4.0 was announced in late 2014. 4.0b dropped just under a year after in 2015, and 4.0bc a year after that in 2016. Looking over the announcement threads, you can find lots of lots of teasing of what neat things are coming in the 4.0 build, but good god its borderline insulting to your fans to announce a version and then take the route that's been taken.
Even then, you -still- have posters waiting patiently for new content that's, in quite a few cases, already playable. Is it done? No, but god good I can remember being one of those people waiting for that next new build and all the cool stuff that comes with it. Its time for a little realism here. Yes it would be amazing to see a competitive scene emerge for minus, or have it featured on anther's and see the playerbase grow. Keeping the releases in neat bundles as has been done in past keeps everything standardized and prevents people from needing constant updates, and would be a necessity to make any of those goals a reality.
But even with the most amazing, well polished, innovative build you guys can dream up... the clock has kinda just ticked on. I know that sounds super cynical and I'm not saying it to belittle all the hard work that's gone into this, but brawl and all of its subsets are largely novelties now. The people who care about minus are already here.
So come on. Show some kindness to the people who really do still love this mod, and let them in from the cold they've been stuck in for an obscene amount of time. Let the theorycrafting and superiority complexes end. You're all minus fans at heart, and I think its time the perspective shift from a back room to a community of fans.
Food for thought from someone who used to feel the same as how I imagine the posters these days must.
PS: unnerf ROB
