yea I agree the ppl go hard in on kbr for perceived notions they have on him, but yea kbr shouldnt have said anything especially given how his situation usually is.
I went back to his tweets back on Jan 24th which I perceived is the when the donation was started. No tweets about how he thinks the drive is a bad idea. He also retweets out like maybe a week later of someone donating 1000 dollars to mvc3 and other donations so obviously ppl sharing donations/hyping up the donations wasnt wrong back then. Now it just seems like he's being petty/thinks jwong donated at the last minute and didnt really care about the charity when jwong may have donated earlier/helped out earlier with another amt. But yes at the end of the day I agree, bottom line kbr handled it well at all
Based on my talks with him and his past comments, I don't think he think it's wrong to donate specifically for Marvel. Rather, it's disingenuous to say that you're doing it for the charity when the intent of donating isn't specifically for that reason. Let's be real, this entire thing was never about raising money for charity. It was about deciding who got into Evo and, the money coincidentally went to charity. His comments about doing it anon is his feelings on when someone donate and
cares for the charity specifically. That's my interpretation of it anyway.
The entire thing is a far cry from something like GDQ.
You can blame them for knowing that people are shits, recognizing that this drive was going to bring out this kind of resentment, and doing it anyway.
This really isn't limited to the FGC. Any similar drive with stakes like this would be devisive and bring out the worst in some of the people involved.
Yeah, definitely. At least if they decided themselves, I would just complain how TOs don't know how to help foster growth in communities like normal. I'd rather bitch about that then listen to the masses be shits.
If it makes you feel any better Shouta and NWS, I love fighting games and love to complain while not playing them. Still crazy how FGs and games as a spectator sport became a thing this decade.
This community feels a little inside baseball and looking into actual players but that is what I like about the FGC, warts and Marns and all.
So you're saying I'm gonna be MiniBossBattle 2.0? =o
But yeah, there's a lot of physical growth in the FGC in the last decade but at the same time, I'm not sure if the community's trends and practices have kept in lock-step with it.
Part of me thinks that donation drives like these sort of spurn some of these communities into finally saying "Oh yeah, well we're going to make our own event!". Combo Breaker seems to be the premier event for NRS games, KI and Skullgirls--maybe Pokken will start becoming a bigger thing at the Smash events like Genesis and APEX--I bet ARMS may have to establish it's presence at Smash tournaments too.
It's disappointing that these donation drives bring out the uglier competitive side of some communities, but I think it would have happened regardless on if there was one or not.
Well, pitting community vs community in a direction competition is about as ugly as it gets for the FGC on that front. At least if the decision was made uniliaterally, it'd be one group complaining to the powers that be. lol
