I personally find it kinda sad that three pages of bashing, and complaining back and forth between the Consul and PC community came about because of the removal of two games, that I personally have no desire to play for reasons I choose not to disclose, that were from what I saw at the meeting, largely voted on by the PC guys which is fine I guess. I’ll admit I’m a big time 360 gamer, and I play ALOT of PC, but I almost know for a fact if I got a large number of people to vote to play Guild Wars as a PC tournament just for the simple fact of playing a casual tournament of GW, and it tied with a couple of the more popular PC games it would more than likely be tossed out, and not played at the LAN, and if you try to argue that it wouldn’t you’d be lieing to yourself and everyone in this community as very few people play GW on this campus, or at least the way I do.
I had my reservations with a number of things that were decided at the console meeting, but when I thought about it adding SCIV to the LAN would bring exposure to the PS3 (if you know me you know I hate SONY), which again would bring exposure to the club. I am also elected leader of a Multi-Platform Online Gaming Community that a number of people here on campus are members of called the Family, and as a result I have been trying to put together funds and T-Shirts to be a partial Sponsor for the Console side of the LAN, getting exposure of my own community and bringing more incentive for those who do come to compete and win. In general I find this entire arguement rather stupid and people argueing for the sake of having what they WANT, as opposed to argueing for whats BEST. I’m not saying that thats the case for everyone, but from reading everything and getting a general tone for the conversation that is what I’ve gotten.
This next part goes out to MasterP. I personally don’t know you, and tbh I really don’t care to, nothing personal. Have you worked in Sales of Electronic and Gaming Consoles, I know you do like numbers, and seem to have your grasp on typing into google and pulling them up, but have you actually worked and sold consoles and seen the general demographic each console sells to, and then think about who actually attends our lans. I worked in Electronics at Wal-Mart for 8 months, and even during the Christmas Shopping season. Yes Wii’s are #1 in Sales, but out of those Sales the general Demographic they sell to are Parents purchasing them for Young Children and for FAMILY CASUAL gaming, which accounts for 80% of Wii sales. The Xbox 360 and PS3 Reach out to the competitive Teen, College, and Middle Age Male Gamer, which is about every person that attends our LANs. So before crunching the numbers and tossing them out there please do a bit more in-depth research, and have a little bit more experience in sales.
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Oh btw, if they PC guys support the Console side of this community so much, why hasn’t one PC guys bothered to support my efforts on CGL to get more 360 games added for competition like I asked people so kindly to do over a month ago on the WCU page on their site. FTR don’t patronize me for the sake of your own personal benefit.