So, it looks like the PokeMMO competitive scene has gotten vile once more. Players are bored and taking shots at one another all willy nilly. Aura is invading team threads and talking shit, and then just retreating to their own thread to cry to staff. Murcielago is bouncing around making remarks on anyone who gives him the attention. LYLE is calling everyone they lose to a random. Matchmaking is sad. Tournaments are meh.
So what happened?
In my opinion the game has gone stale. An update is looming, but we don't know when, where, or how. Yea we saw one test server but hell, that thing was so full of glitches and incomplete aspects that I don't see the update coming until February 2018. We were told Gen 1-3 legends would be implemented before then just to rush finish the Gen 3 game. We've got crickets from the devs about that since they mentioned it.
So what now?
The PSL think-tank brought us back to back seasons and yea that was fun, but the hype is gone now. Orange introduced the World Cup, but matches aren't being played and it's a slow process. PSL8 is in limbo, waiting for WC and for some brave soul to step up and endure guaranteed ridicule from our nasty community. Even the current tournament series was a bust since the prize was terrible, albeit in comparison to Frags' Shiny Charizard and Metagross, and my Shiny Charizard and Eevee.
So what do?
We need HYPE, because right now there isn't any. How do we bring the HYPE? With the collective involvement of staff and devs. Since we've tested the "leaderboard tournaments" for like what, 4 months now, I think it's time we put them into action in an appropriate way. How do we do this? Well as I requested in the Best of 2017 thread:
What I want to see:
Wipe the leaderboards and everyone's records
Increase the ranked buy-in to 2k BP
Offer weekly cash prizes to the Top 10 players, awarded every Monday
Create a monthly 64-man leaderboard tournament and host it in Silph Co
Include a decent prize for the leaderboard tournament with the option of customizable IVs for hidden power
I personally want to see ranked change from a BP farming system to a truly competitive atmosphere. The best players have no incentive to play this system, simply because the only thing they earn is a few drops of BP and a sad tournament each month that hardly anyone plays. If you offer decent rewards that competitive players can truly use (Shiny comps, cash), then it could become a damn good system. BP farming should be limited to the battle frontier which was a decent program that shouldn't have been abandoned by the dev team.
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So, it looks like the PokeMMO competitive scene has gotten vile once more. Players are bored and taking shots at one another all willy nilly. Aura is invading team threads and talking shit, and then just retreating to their own thread to cry to staff. Murcielago is bouncing around making remarks on anyone who gives him the attention. LYLE is calling everyone they lose to a random. Matchmaking is sad. Tournaments are meh.
So what happened?
In my opinion the game has gone stale. An update is looming, but we don't know when, where, or how. Yea we saw one test server but hell, that thing was so full of glitches and incomplete aspects that I don't see the update coming until February 2018. We were told Gen 1-3 legends would be implemented before then just to rush finish the Gen 3 game. We've got crickets from the devs about that since they mentioned it.
So what now?
The PSL think-tank brought us back to back seasons and yea that was fun, but the hype is gone now. Orange introduced the World Cup, but matches aren't being played and it's a slow process. PSL8 is in limbo, waiting for WC and for some brave soul to step up and endure guaranteed ridicule from our nasty community. Even the current tournament series was a bust since the prize was terrible, albeit in comparison to Frags' Shiny Charizard and Metagross, and my Shiny Charizard and Eevee.
So what do?
We need HYPE, because right now there isn't any. How do we bring the HYPE? With the collective involvement of staff and devs. Since we've tested the "leaderboard tournaments" for like what, 4 months now, I think it's time we put them into action in an appropriate way. How do we do this? Well as I requested in the Best of 2017 thread:
What I want to see:
I personally want to see ranked change from a BP farming system to a truly competitive atmosphere. The best players have no incentive to play this system, simply because the only thing they earn is a few drops of BP and a sad tournament each month that hardly anyone plays. If you offer decent rewards that competitive players can truly use (Shiny comps, cash), then it could become a damn good system. BP farming should be limited to the battle frontier which was a decent program that shouldn't have been abandoned by the dev team.
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