If we want to build the KOF community in the states (well, in the western, but south america doens't need to build the KOF community as much as USA) I think that ignoring the existence of other fighting games will be plain stupid, more considering that at this moment, we don't have any fighting game to talk about
I met dreamcancel for shoryuken, I love this forum cause here there's a lot of people who knows shitloads of KOF and speaks in a language which I could understand (sadly, even though I speak spanish, I can't fucking stand mexican KOF pages, and is nothing against mexicans, I spend my vacations there and Loved that country, but there's no page where KOF players speak like normal people and don't leak stupid rumours every 10 seconds, I don't know where the top mexican players post to see that page)
The main problem is, that at this moment, we don't have any actual KOF game to talk about which as the same time, is the much mainstream possible to talk about and build a community which could be expanded more far than the barriers of a local arcade.
KOF 98UM has a shitload netcode, so it will be hard to build the game if nobody here has more guys to play with it (Which is sad, cause I fucking love 98 UM, but I can't play with anybody here, also, it seems like nobody gives a crap for this game here)
KOF XIII still doesn't had a console release, so a lot of people who are fans of KOF will not had that much reasons to visit a page which at this moment is more based on a game who only 30 guys could play and share their opinion, and from those 30 guys, maybe only 10 post here (proportion, mybe there are much or less
This leads us to our final game, KOF 2002UM, this game will be released soon, there will be a big chance that will had a netcode strongly enough to support online game at least within the USA (I had played with NorthAmericans NGBC, runs fine) the thing that this page will need, is create a big database to atrract all the guys who liked 2002UM and join the KOF community, meanwhile we should stilll need all the help that the guys from AI and monster arcade post here to get a big database, until the release of KOF XIII
The solution is not aisle us from the rest of the fighting games and which that one day lots of people will join us after they get tired of their fighting games, this should be a more friendly page where we receive everybody who had experience in other fighters and want to give KOF a shot, a little space will not do harm, if we feel that they are writing too much thing, we must surpass them and write lots of more things, the solution is not ignore the rest of games, the solution is fortify the KOF sections to make clear that this IS a KOF page but that we also love fighting games and that we will love to se more guys, not alienate the rest of the guys and being look like those KOF fans only. The problem with cyberfanatix is that seems that nobody seems to give a crap, and somehow over the time I saw them as the page of the ''Crazy CMV'' more than the page where they try to give lots of information, which is sad because in some time ago there was a lot of info
At least the born of dreamcancel felt very rushed, without a strong game where we could build the game around the page, I hope that when KOF XIII is released, we could see this page as a sort of dustloop, where there are lots of sub forums, dedicated to each character, match ups, and shit like that, and build around that the page (or shoryuken with any capcom game) The advantage of create this page before, is that we could still had some information to anticipate the release of the console game, also, here there's a lot of good posters, like all the guys that play the game in the arcades, we also had Rex Dart and Raikukojin who are in Japan now and gave us lots of information from there, also, I think that Dark Geese still posts here, and he has lots of contacts with Japan and Mexico, so I think that there's a future to build something good
I hope that with 2002UM we saw more information to atract people and build something funny and big
my 2 cents, at least I thing that a misc fighing game section will not be bad, the only thing is that musn't had a lot of space, just a subforum where you talk of all fighting games, with only one thread per game
Back to topic, man, that model is horrible
