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linwelin

linwelin

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Where has it all gone ? i remember back in the day playing SOF2 and being in the jolt leagues, then in the clan base leagues, i am thinking of getting BF3 for that competitiveness but is there still that kind of thing going on and is it as much as before ?

I know there is clan base, but does anyone know of anymore leagues like it ?
 
linwelin said:
Where has it all gone ? i remember back in the day playing SOF2 and being in the jolt leagues, then in the clan base leagues, i am thinking of getting BF3 for that competitiveness but is there still that kind of thing going on and is it as much as before ?

I know there is clan base, but does anyone know of anymore leagues like it ?
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plenty of games around, just join esl and e-dom with a decent clan you'll have plenty of competitive games
 
compboyo said:
too many amatuers and casual gamers these days
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The "pros" are probably still around, they just have an extremely unhealthy fear of change and so don't move with the gaming times. They'd have to put all that effort into learning new exploits so they can claim "it's in the game so it must be legal etc, etc" :P

This and a lot of newer titles don't lend themselves so well to competitive gaming.
 
linwelin said:
Where has it all gone ? i remember back in the day playing SOF2 and being in the jolt leagues, then in the clan base leagues, i am thinking of getting BF3 for that competitiveness but is there still that kind of thing going on and is it as much as before ?

I know there is clan base, but does anyone know of anymore leagues like it ?
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Doubt it, back in the day ..funny enough this was the game (SoF2) that started me running FPS clans, we were at one time the No1 ranked clan on CB, think it was in domination forget now. We also played in the Jolt Leagues, think our first server came from them.

Was called wabbit in those days (then Zero), yup original I know, god the name wabbit seemed to spawn a legion of wabbitkiller, wabbithunter names.

Only thing I still have from those days is the domain name for clanfear :p
Competition those days seems a lot fiercer than it is today, think the nanny nation in some was has even crept into gaming, look at MMO's today and the carebears, its not enough that they don't want to do PvP they also want to prevent everyone else from doing it as well.

Well that and the cheats, pretty sad that people need to cheat to win a game, but aimbots and the like are a business today.

O yeah the clan was called ..erm dont laugh Soldiers of Fear:o, the later changed to *|F|eaR!

But they were good days, remember my g/f saying calm down its only a game ... gessh!!:p
 
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Turambar said:
The "pros" are probably still around, they just have an extremely unhealthy fear of change and so don't move with the gaming times. They'd have to put all that effort into learning new exploits so they can claim "it's in the game so it must be legal etc, etc" :P

This and a lot of newer titles don't lend themselves so well to competitive gaming.
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Just the type I was thinking of when I spoke about the carebears :p
 
The refusal to release server files and mod tools due to "piracy concerns" has severely restricted clan activity on newer titles

Its all about the $$$ rather than the community im afraid :(
 
there just does not seem to be the competitiveness with these bigger games, especially the battlefield series cod is not too bad, but nothing seems to be able to compare with sof2 and cs, i only bought sof2 for the mp as i had played the demo of it and that is all i wanted lol i had more fun with the mp than i did with the sp, i think i got to about the train station in sp.

but yeah i think today's games, although they look amazing, they just dont have that sense of community anymore, its all as someone above mentioned pick up and play casual stuff now, consoles to blame for this ? maybe who knows.

Does anyone even know of any type of game being made that is kind of like sof2 ? would be interesting.

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HAH i just came across this while on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UURmhaqEmrY

Soldier of fortune online, being made by activist.
 
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The markets to big to many consumers. Gamers off all ages and levels and interests.

What you need is within games clans to set up servers.

I dont know im not a copetitive gamer but i join severs on bfbc2 for example and you will have members of 3 or 4 clans, 3-5 members off ech clan in the game. Then you have randoms.

I think the idea of clans theses days in bfbc2 etc. Is so that you can have squdmates to play with who are not retards.
 
too many games being released in too many formats

started playing cs pre steam then onto steaming pooh itself (at the time I hated the transition and cs just felt wrong initially)

moved onto cod/cod:uo/bf2 etc etc. Was a senior admin for CoD on enemydown for a while also when it was actually half decent.

I think its a different generation of gamers now, those that played competitively have got older with kids/jobs etc so dont have the time to commit.

It's a shame as I do really miss clan matches and mixes, diving onto irc for a chat and getting a match via the pickup channels.... ahhhh them were the days :)

would deffo join a BF3 clan of sorts for a few matches a week!
 
I was in an Americas Army clan for years, up until 2007, loved the competive side of TWL. Good laughs, good times!
There was no other game that made me want to throw my pc out of a window as much as that game did. The obsenities over teamspeak were terrible at times lol.
As time went on, some went to play WoW, others CoD4. It all kind of dissapated as time went on and we became casual gamers. I left to join a competitve tactical realism clan, and history has repeated itself. I miss those days of gaming!
 
Fewer servers, fewer people.

Just one of the things, but for the most part you hooked up with people you played with on the same servers night after night.

So many servers and random people these days thats kinda lost, you have to go elsewhere to pick up without getting to know people first... restricts people just getting into it naturaly.

A day and a age where im glad i was just there, 500 odd people playing quake online at night, and you knew most of them:)
 
lokiss said:
Fewer servers, fewer people.

Just one of the things, but for the most part you hooked up with people you played with on the same servers night after night.

So many servers and random people these days thats kinda lost, you have to go elsewhere to pick up without getting to know people first... restricts people just getting into it naturaly.

A day and a age where im glad i was just there, 500 odd people playing quake online at night, and you knew most of them:)
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This is very true, for BF3 very good chance we will get a server, be nice if a group from here also jumped on regularly, so you get to know each other.

Back in SoF2 and maybe CoD 2 I could nearly always name 80% of the players on all 3 of our servers, as the sames ones came back time and again.

I loved the original quake, still have it :)
 
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