Meeting Minutes (February 25, 2010)

Starcraft will be win because you can install in literally 10 mintues, use only 1 key for 100 people, and RTS which is awesome.

BTW i have a CD you can use if you want for Starcraft. Toranky will be all over this like white on my *edited*.

FTE Kaz-Ka said:

You do know that we actually had a fair amount of PC gamers playing this game too right? And a good portion of those people actually wanted to use the keyboard to play (and I watched one of them while he was practicing and he was actually doing pretty good against the CPU). Im actually trying to work on making this happen (use the keyboard for the game in a 2 player vs match, which Im sure will not be a problem). Honestly we had a decent turnout for this game from both the PC, PS3, 360, and Wii owners of the club. Diss the game if you want, but its a good game and has some potential, which has been proven. I mean come on, would you complain if I tried to hook up a PS3 controller while playing TF2 during the LAN?

You can’t have had many PC gamers want to play it because you only had about 5 PC gamers there according to the tournament attendance sheet.

If you wanted to use a console controller for TF2, which you can btw, I would complain as well. If you want to play that game with mouse/keyboard great, it takes away about half the animosity I have towards it, but you’ll also lose over half the players in the process.

MasterP said:

MajorMajorMajor said:

Starcraft will be win because you can install in literally 10 mintues, use only 1 key for 100 people, and RTS which is awesome.

Yeah see we try to stay legit…

that is the biggest lie ever masterp and you know it lol.

MasterP said:

3 LANs will not work well, you need to focus on getting attendance up before you start expanding.

good point

MasterP said:

Multiple rooms will work but as anyone that’s been to an ASU event can tell you it’s a serious pain for the players. If at all possible, this should be avoided.

Eh, it was but it wasn’t. To raise a huge advantage, multiple rooms allowed for more play in the noise levels of individual games without ruining it for others. As a disadvantage, it made it somewhat complicated to track and announce the start of tournaments. However, once used to it, it was truly quite nice.

MasterP said:

Also, cross-room networking between consoles will not be possible.

*will be a logistical nightmare. “not be possible” assumes that you don’t have some good lengths of network cable and routers/switches to relay between rooms, and permission to run them. I’ve seen smaller inter-room dorm competitions work.

Nickname said:

MasterP said:

Multiple rooms will work but as anyone that’s been to an ASU event can tell you it’s a serious pain for the players. If at all possible, this should be avoided. Also, cross-room networking between consoles will not be possible.

You can fit a suprisingly large number of people in the multipurpose room.

I can back this up. I’ve been to some MP room LANs. they were somewhat tight, but I had a hella lot of fun then.

Nickname said:

I mean this club is for the WCU students, if this is what they want to play, let them play it.

I consider these great words of wisdom, just saying.

I seriously don’t get why no css…. unless you have the LAN planned to be on another bad date, it will get more attendance than the rest of the pc games

Yeah I like that one of the reasons they don’t like to play CS/CSS is because not many people have gaming computers… then they vote in left4dead2.

Liquid said:

In all honesty, CS is played much around here simply because it is unpopular.

 

inb4 2009.4 lan attendence: when the main lifeforce of a game all live hours away from the campus, maybe they should try to hold their own events closer to them so they have more control over the game and don’t have to drive as much.

encourage members to leave and start their own community…. real good idea

Liquid said:

Eventually, everything from CSS to Halo 3 will stop being played.

 

When this happens, the club find new games.

 

When the club finds new games, what will you do?

I don’t think anyone has a problem with you getting new games, the problem is that your “new games” aren’t really PC games. If you’d have voted in MW2 or some other new and popular game you’d have gotten significantly less complaints about it.

Liquid said:

MasterP said:

Liquid said:

Eventually, everything from CSS to Halo 3 will stop being played.

 

When this happens, the club find new games.

 

When the club finds new games, what will you do?

I don’t think anyone has a problem with you getting new games, the problem is that your “new games” aren’t really PC games. If you’d have voted in MW2 or some other new and popular game you’d have gotten significantly less complaints about it.

Excuse me? Modern Warfare 2 was voted in.

Guilty Gear – 15

Team Fortress 2 – 15

Left 4 Dead 2 – 10

Starcraft – 9

CounterStrike: Source – 8

Medievil 2 – 6

Stepmania – 3

Parties Breaker – 3

Oh yeah?

I beat you Master P

Liquid said:

Modern Warfare 2 was voted in.

 

“Modern Warfare 2 and Gears of War 2 will be hosted at LAN 2010.2.”

 

No need to put it on PC, we have it for 360.

We’re talking about PC games here. A CoD PC gamer won’t play it on console and vice versa. It’s not like going from PS3 to XBOX, a PC gamer literally can’t aim at all on a console. And by can’t aim I mean I got laughed at when I went to NCSU’s ODST launch party. If I wasn’t a club officer I wouldn’t have even gone but meh. I’ll tear your *edited* up on either of the PC Halos but on console I can’t hit *edited*. That’s just how it works.

Besides, last time we did MW1 on PC and 360 at the same LAN both were successful. Highly, actually.

You dodged the point I was making. The claim is that PC gaming on campus is evolving yet from the games that are being voted in it’s more like taking a decade step backwards, SC instead of WC3 and GGear instead of CSS. I mean if you want to push for different games that’s one thing but don’t kid yourself into thinking the games selected are a step forward and don’t pretend you’ve made the best game decision when it comes to attracting the campus PC community to the events.

Starcraft 2 is due for release sometime this year

if by this year you mean whenever blizzard actually gets off their asses, last i checked diablo 2s 1.13 was incredibly delayed and diablo 3s release was delayed too

a PC gamer literally can’t aim at all on a console, this statement is SO TRUE it hurts. When i picked up mw2 on xbox cause i figured it would be better than turning all the stuff down to run it on my machine. I had to spend many an hour building up that skill. This coming from a guy who would run around in Cod4 with shotgun and deagle and topfrag always, unless the alcohol threshold had been breached.

cs:s plays fast, everyone knows it, everyone can run it. i understand it may not be as popular as others but in terms of running a competition it is pretty easy. Since the times i’ve played the teams have both been pretty full, balance never really seemed a big problem. then you pick the top 3 from each or whatever and then move on. in 1hour at most, shorter if you wanted. you’d have a winner.

l4d is fun, l4d2 i assume is the same. L4d however requires trust in your teamates and co-ordinated attacks, balancing this is A LOT harder than cs:s. Honestly i think l4d just doesn’t work unless you bring in your teams beforehand, which of course leads to team awesomes raping or whatever, but that way you would have solid groups. Cause even if you have only 2 people on your team that know each other, they will be way better than 4 strangers. tf2 gets close to this, but not quite

when i’ve gone, i’ve gone mostly to play cs:s, cod4 and tf2(and only 70% on the tf2) so i guess i won’t really be going unless something changes or there are other draws, people that i know. also starcraft love makes me want to punch people in the face, but that’s my problem

Liquid said:

We’re not. You are. If people want MW2 on the PC (or any other game for that matter), they can come to the meetings and vote for it.

The discussion was ENTIRELY about the PC and then you derail it to console. WE, as in the people having this discussion, are discussing PC. Based on the content of your post, so are you.

I mean it’s nice that guilty gear (a console/arcade game) was the predecessor to blazblue (a console/arcade game) but what does that have to do with PCs? Blazblue isn’t even out on PC yet and will never be released in this country on PC. The next Blazblue game won’t even be released on PC at all. From the outsiders prospective what this looks like is that you have PS3 players that love fighter games and are using any method available to them to fit in more.

Tell you what, let’s experiement. Schedule blazblue and guilty gear to occur at the same time. If PC gamers are really a driving force behind it then it’ll still do fine, if console gamers are the one’s playing it’ll do poorly.

Starcraft 2 won’t be released in 2010, if it is it’ll be Thanksgiving or Christmas. Any “hype” or “warming up” is entirely a smoke screen for something else. Either that or you guys on campus are blind to how Blizzard works with release dates. They’re almost as bad as Valve. Scratch that, just looked at the dates, Blizzard is every bit as bad as Valve when it comes to release dates and patching.

I never said guilty gear was a joke vote, starcraft is, but GG was a well thought out and planned maneuver for consoles to encroach back on the PCs. It’s not like they haven’t done it before with other games, which also did well to begin with, but all later died hard.