That's not true, you give people too little credit. If they game is good, people will be willing to try it. When I lived in GA, most the FG players only played SF4, I introduced them to Melty Blood and more than half of them were immediately addicted and a small MB community was created with almost no effort. The type of gamer that wants instant gratification is not going to be the guy that goes out of his way to meet with other players to learn and have real competition.
Not every place has FG players, not every place have people that go on SRK, that go on Dream Cancel so stop acting like that's the case.
News fucking flash so listen up, NOT EVERYONE PLAYS FGS. Simple as fucking that. Then there's those who just play for the flash, like in the MKs, or the Marvels, or hell, even Soul Caliber. People that don't give a shit about getting good, but just playing. And those people, give them KOF, sure they might like it, but you'll probably have to play half-assed for months, lest you risk turning them off.
You want an example? I have friends that don't mind getting into different games. Brought over MvC3 for the hell of it. They loved the graphics, the feel, the flash, the combos. After an hour, they barred me from playing it with them because even as half assed as I could play, I was still doing too well. This isn't uncommon in other places either. What a fucking scene that is.
I agree people should get out and look, but when people have gone out of their fucking way to tell you they've taken an active search in finding a scene and have found nothing, shut the fuck up, take their word for it and get off your god damn high horse, unless you want to take a goddamn flight out to where they live and threaten people at gunpoint to play KOF with them.
I'm sorry, but it's like finding fossils. You can dig and dig, but sometimes it's not a matter of just putting more effort into it, sometimes the only thing down there is more and more worm shit and nothing more.