Fighting Games Weekly | Sept 30 - Oct 6 | Hard Knockdown Life
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CrazyTank940
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I didn't think that could possibly get any worse before now. Looks like I was wrong lol.
sixteen-bit
Member
LMAO that was too good.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
Ricky says he's gonna try to grind from 0 to 15k PP
DiscoShark
Banned
I never get tired of seeing this game. Shame it was sent to die on the worst possible platform.
It's pretty funny how bad Eventhubs has gotten. It just feels like their focus is primarily on making money now. Posting fighting game news is just secondary. Every week, they post like 5 or 6 polls that doesn't really accomplish anything aside from getting more hits on their website.
irfaanator
Banned
nice lol
Now that ccup is over, how was it at the venue? Pretty good? Anybody able to hang out at that after party and see the now infamous faded mago.
Not to forget posting a bunch of tweets that say nothing and trying to squeeze a 3 paragraph article out of them.
Unfortunately, it's still the best, most frequent source for fighting game news, it's just plagued with also being the best, most frequent source for non-news.
Passive Assassin
Member
SRK is still good. The forums just suck.
Well, I understand that Eventhubs has to make money to continue doing what they're doing. It's not like you could just take an hour out of your day and have the content that EH has, especially during major tournaments. The problem is that I think this "solution" is going to cause more negatives than positives.
Trickster
Member
What's the alternative though? No one would deactivate their ad block if eventhubs had gone "hey guys, would you be nice and not use adblocks? thanks guys!"
Not like the ads on the site are very intrusive either. So I don't see the big deal. Only places i see the point of ad block is on sites like youtube or twitch. where the ads are super intrusive.
I think them framing this move as a necessity to keep the site alive is the strangest part of it all. Even if it is true and both "solutions," either downsizing to the point of extinction or implementing terrible ads that leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth, solve the problem, it's not really helping Eventhubs' case amongst all the other quibbles people have about the site that have been accumulating for a while. Had they had taken the 8WR route, I don't think you would have seen this reaction. Come to think of it, I'm not sure why anyone would try this route over the 8WR route, especially if they ever end up being sourced on Kotaku or something again and have a bunch of people coming to their site only to see these fugly overlays and make infrequent readers go "fuck this site" and never visit again.
Real rap, you need one dude that browses NeoGAF all day long and you can make a news site out of it, no other place has as many people constantly hunting for new information and breaking news. If it works for so many general gaming news sites that leech off of GAF, I'm sure it'd work for a genre-specific site. Eventhubs already does that for some news that breaks on GAF and doesn't source it all of the time.
Half serious here
biosnake20
Member
Wow the drunk 2D GOD is amazing. "Im sorry for aroh(R)"
Karsticles
Member
Are you sure? That's the exact argument that has me whitelisting NeoGAF.
ian to the max
Member
Most frequent? As in most frequently updated?
"God's Beard!"
Member
Wario64?
Yeah. At least compared to whatever mental image I have of when I used to browse SRK for more than making these OPs. Every day there are art posts (and art re-posts..), combo videos, tech, news, etc. by the boatload. They pump out a lot per day.
Generally, I'm the type that will take that even with all the filler they throw in there because ill flip through it quick in my RSS feed and consume all the information, picking what's relevant to me to read. But that doesn't necessarily mean they couldn't be a bit leaner and make my feed reading experience a bit more efficient. That's just me though, and obviously they have to get enough hits to stay alive.
If I had the time/patience I'd consider experimenting with the SRK feed again to make a more direct comparison now that their site runs much better.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";84165529]Wario64?[/QUOTE]
GameTrailers did good to snatch him up.
Also just small other things like you have some private investigators on GAF that really do go hunt this shit down, get other GAFers to translate and validate from multiple sources etc. And that's not even including those GAF ninjas that may as well be private investigators.
They only saw about a 1-2% increase in ad intake, if I remember correctly.
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Lobo looks so stupid. I'd rather have Shin Cyber Scorpion in the game, who is just unpatched Scorpion.
Rob zombie looking doofus
Rob zombie looking doofus
ian to the max
Member
Gotcha, just curious what you meant there. Your mental image is a little skewed, but I understand that you haven't visited SRK for awhile.
Karsticles
Member
That's exactly why he is appealing to me. Except he sucked when I tried to use him.
ian to the max
Member
Yeah, he's pretty bad. I'm quite happy that Zatanna turned out okay with some of the other questionable design choices they made in that game.
That's exactly what they did do, but the big half-screen auto-play video ads meant a lot of people turned around and re-enabled it.
Does that mean they got rid of the aforementioned half-screen auto-play videos?
notworksafe
Member
Just wanted put out an update on Art of Fighting from E-Dawg himself 
Thanks to everyone that helped spread the word, donated, or even just watched!
Thanks to everyone that helped spread the word, donated, or even just watched!
The Last Emperor
Member
I coulda had much more but those bee drops are too real
Put 200 on him against chris g and 100 on him against champ
also, everyone at the venue laughed when rog was like "ill take 100 to 1 odds on neo beating chris g"
Put 200 on him against chris g and 100 on him against champ
also, everyone at the venue laughed when rog was like "ill take 100 to 1 odds on neo beating chris g"
ShinMaruku
Member
How good are the WNF numbers on DOA5u? I'll be back in Cali in a few months and I want to see it still there when I come to try my hand at something local.
That Dude John
Member
Interesting stuff. Never actually seen the game in action before lol.
Passive Assassin
Member
checking the levelup.challonge.com page it's usually 8-15ish people?
The Last Emperor
Member
Funniest part about Canada Cup to me was yelling out fgc related jokes/memes and the crowd actually laughing
1. After Champ won that match against Chris G with the Dormammu chip- "nice dormammu dawg"
2. When dakou was going nuts- "put Dee Jay in marvel"
3. Shouting "5 golden letters" after every perfect
1. After Champ won that match against Chris G with the Dormammu chip- "nice dormammu dawg"
2. When dakou was going nuts- "put Dee Jay in marvel"
3. Shouting "5 golden letters" after every perfect
I'm all about pot odds, but even that's just a wasted dollar.
I find that it can be pretty annoying. Awhile ago, I remember a guy saying kappa after a joke.
chriskun
Member
that crowd must have been pretty drunk.
I fear the day I say something sarcastic or in my mind funny and unintentionally say Kappa out loud. I'm on twitch way too much.
haha, so eventhubs is doing their up/downvoting thing. To view a downvoted comment you need to click a link which uses javascript. If adblock is on and javascript is enabled, it takes over your full screen to tell you to turn adblock off.
So many ridiculous attempts for money. If they really want it so bad, make EH a subscription only service and see how many people bother. I'm not expecting many.
So many ridiculous attempts for money. If they really want it so bad, make EH a subscription only service and see how many people bother. I'm not expecting many.
The Last Emperor
Member
Maybe only like 5 people were drunk. Everyone else was waiting for the after party
Seasoned Badger
Member
Fchamp/Sherry/TMNTemps CanadaCup Drama:
http://youtu.be/AHlbAhFO4Uk
Cringe worthy level shit: Fchamp boasting about his twitter follower numbers, that awkward silence, Sherry's confrontation and the guy snatching the head set off TMNTemps' head...beautiful.
http://youtu.be/AHlbAhFO4Uk
Cringe worthy level shit: Fchamp boasting about his twitter follower numbers, that awkward silence, Sherry's confrontation and the guy snatching the head set off TMNTemps' head...beautiful.
SolarPowered
Member
ASW's idea of long term support must be flailing about like a madman until half the western world forgets you even exist.
If they're limiting the field to eight, then the problem becomes who not to invite. It it's purely invite only, then everyone is going to debate the field of players, assuming they are looking for a mix of international and/or online presence.
Since start of the war of attrition with adblockers, the writing is on the wall for eventhubs. Not saying it's going under, but you're straight up saying that your old business model doesn't work.
Of course, introducing a new business model which inflames even more people doesn't seem to be the right way to go either.
Thing is that they might make more money using that model than they ever would with ads given the price disparity per conversion (whether it's a membership or a click/impression).
Slightly better than the fox:
Up/down voting isn't strictly a Reddit feature, it's just the first to do it on such a large scale. The problem with it being implemented here as well as the SRK/IPW implementations (through Disqus) is that they just slapped it on and enabled the feature without leading the community on what the use should be.
As a result, they ended up with people upvoting and downvoting for no particular reason (which is fine, in a way). It's not that people should be forced to vote in a particular way, but if you want it to serve as a metric for something meaningful, you have to take the initiative and prepare your community for it.
The eight minutes that Catalyst used for describing why they need you to disable adblock (or fork over $20) would have been better spent telling the community what they hope to see in the voting, as well as what they would use it for.
Also, (and in the SRK/IPW implementations) they should have made the voting anonymous. Right now, people are really open to retaliation voting (especially on the SRK/IPW implementations).
Personally, I think the Stack Exchange model is the best (disclaimer, I'm a diamond mod on Stack Overflow, so, yeah, I'm biased).
I just hope that they don't try and sell this as a value-add for the $20 subscription. That kind of tech doesn't justify the cost.
Catalyst. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he's so involved and passionate about what he's doing that he can't see the forest from the trees. It's difficult to accept that your passion isn't shaping up to be what you envisioned, and can lead to a doubling down on existing, ineffective strategies instead of adapting to the market and trying to find ways to come out ahead (even if it means getting out of the game).
Trickster
Member
Hmm I haven't seen any since I removed adblock from their site. But I don't visit it that much, so they might be there, and I just haven't seen them
Instead folks will just go away, which is what is happening. Not to mention eventhubs is probably malware given the intrusiveness of the ads they do have.
The lack of a good general FG site is something that is hurting the FGC.
SRK had it right with their reputation system, as shitty as that was, e-peen makes people pay up in a way ads don'.
Is it worth the money ? I was curious but 5 dollars for a podcast is alot
Time for fgc gaf to branch out and make the good general fg site the people deserve
Seriously, this is where I go for my FG stuff because everywhere else is crap, outside of specific game sites like VFDC when I was into VF or Skullheart for SG (which has kinda replaced VF for me these days)
Polygon picked up the Shadowloo Showdown 2013 trailer:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/1/47...013-unleashes-top-international-fighters-upon
http://www.polygon.com/2013/10/1/47...013-unleashes-top-international-fighters-upon
irfaanator
Banned
Since start of the war of attrition with adblockers, the writing is on the wall for eventhubs. Not saying it's going under, but you're straight up saying that your old business model doesn't work.
Of course, introducing a new business model which inflames even more people doesn't seem to be the right way to go either.
Thing is that they might make more money using that model than they ever would with ads given the price disparity per conversion (whether it's a membership or a click/impression).
Slightly better than the fox:
Up/down voting isn't strictly a Reddit feature, it's just the first to do it on such a large scale. The problem with it being implemented here as well as the SRK/IPW implementations (through Disqus) is that they just slapped it on and enabled the feature without leading the community on what the use should be.
As a result, they ended up with people upvoting and downvoting for no particular reason (which is fine, in a way). It's not that people should be forced to vote in a particular way, but if you want it to serve as a metric for something meaningful, you have to take the initiative and prepare your community for it.
The eight minutes that Catalyst used for describing why they need you to disable adblock (or fork over $20) would have been better spent telling the community what they hope to see in the voting, as well as what they would use it for.
Also, (and in the SRK/IPW implementations) they should have made the voting anonymous. Right now, people are really open to retaliation voting (especially on the SRK/IPW implementations).
Personally, I think the Stack Exchange model is the best (disclaimer, I'm a diamond mod on Stack Overflow, so, yeah, I'm biased).
I just hope that they don't try and sell this as a value-add for the $20 subscription. That kind of tech doesn't justify the cost.
Catalyst. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he's so involved and passionate about what he's doing that he can't see the forest from the trees. It's difficult to accept that your passion isn't shaping up to be what you envisioned, and can lead to a doubling down on existing, ineffective strategies instead of adapting to the market and trying to find ways to come out ahead (even if it means getting out of the game).
StackOverflow is awesome. I believe catalyst even has a neogaf account so it's possible for him to connect with us on this topic if he really wants
I've been F5'ing trying to get it to come up... so far nothing. If they did in fact change that, I'll gladly keep adblock disabled ... it was my only gripe.