which games you think will last longer and have a more stronger competitive scene? 98UM, 2002UM or XIII?
There's just too much history between 98UM and 2K2UM to compete with XIII. If, and if we're playing the if game, XIII came out way back in '98 when ppl still went to arcades, when you couldn't play games online, that would be an interesting question but we'll never know.
Another challenge we have today besides from the obvious dying arcade/increase in online play is the lack of new blood, young gamers. The group of us in AI are relatively older, we're in our 30s, Oscar is getting close, and John and Reynald are a few years behind Oscar. I think Ivan's 25 or so, and our youngest one is Abe at 22 or so but he's only just started this year. In comparison, at 22 years old I already have played KOF for 6 years. We're an old bunch now, where's the new blood? There just doesn't seem to be that fighting spirit, that tenacity that we had growing up, at least they're not playing KOF =(