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Arena Chat Thread

I dropped by because I was curious on the current state of Arena, and nostalgia has pushed me to go against my better judgement.

If there's to be a serious effort in reforming arena, I'm actually kind of interested in seeing this place return from the grave. But only if the aforementioned zombie exchanges its torn jean-jacket x tight leather pants combo for a new suit and tie. I'd pay to see business men fight over donuts tbh.

Honestly though, if you really want to bring life to Arena again, don't debate points made by outsiders as if they're some kind of attack on your community. Don't assume criticisms are directed as a personal attack on players. Assume that the overwhelming opinion might have some merit if everyone seems to agree that this community possesses some unattractive traits, otherwise you make it seem exclusive and, like a lot of people have mentioned elsewhere, elitist. You want outsiders to join in and retain interest, but it's very clear that this competitive way of doings things is a toxic practice. Toxic for the activity in arena, anyways. That's not to say that the behavior of players in Arena is 'toxic' in the sense that you're all assholes or something, but toxic in the sense that it drives away and kills new interest.

If there's to be any constructive dialogue, or cooperative effort to reform and rejuvenate Arena, I would advise people to make suggestions and efforts rather than complaining about everything wrong with the sub forum.

First of all, get rid of the god forsaken ranking system, it's stupid.

In regards to Rilla, I don't think there was ever any need for a sub-forum specific Moderator in the first place. The fact that the horrendous ranking system is actually something pertinent for example, is preposterous. If anything, competitive fighters should be a community within the community of arena. That way, players who play only to win don't define the sub forum. At any rate, I don't think Arena needs a new moderator. It just needs a fresh face.

I Wanna Hear Your Opinions On The Different Wrting Levels/Forums.

I forgot to use commas in that sentence and now I feel like the world is crashing down around me.

I Wanna Hear Your Opinions On The Different Wrting Levels/Forums.

I will say that the naming scheme of the sections, and massive discrepancy of active players between them, speaks worlds about the frequency of what you may label as 'immature' content. Casual is over saturated. Advanced is not.

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

I can’t criticize 15 for trying something new, but it felt like the story was especially lackluster, the gameplay was only just ok, and the massive overworld was obnoxiously empty for its size.

Honestly I’m just sick of huge overworlds at this point. Final fantasy 12 had big areas, and travel was absolutely horrendous, but I think the game had so much more going for it in terms of story and characters. But 12 also feels like On of the more unique titlrs in the series with how different it is stylistically from most other games. It was like somewhere around XI and XII the series started to change. I think it was for the best, but XV barely even felt like a Final fantasy title to me. That and the most fun I had in that game was fishing.

XV is a good example of something that sacrifices gameplay and identity for cinematics. XII and XIII did thid too, with XIII being possibly the worst title to date imo

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What the hell do kids know anyways.

@Dynamo Frokane Not super keen on the idea of reentering arena myself.

I Wanna Hear Your Opinions On The Different Wrting Levels/Forums.

You just can’t understand my nuanced sense of humor. Kids love it when I babble incoherently and mock them for being kids.

And as we all know, 9 year olds control the market. I should be fucking rich by now.

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Fucking teenagers and their miserable addiction to hunger throne vampire mister postmen dabbing voraciously

We live in a society I’ll tell you h’what.

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@Dynamo Frokane

I have this vague feeling that we’ve roleplayed on old guild’s arena toegether at one point, but I might be confusing you with one of the people from Innue’s Naruto circle

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I would give an extensive history on my very intimate relationship with the Arena back during old guild, but I was just as toxic as many players in there.

However, I do not think the entirety of arena is inhabited by people who just want to win and stroke their egos as a result. It was just most of us, at the time that it was most active.

At any rate, the subsection is pretty dead now. Still, I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with combat-centric roleplays. However, the tier system, rule set, and every other rule therein is colorful nonsense that gets taken way too seriously.

HOWEVER.

It can be satisfying to participate in a fight that involves actually outsmarting a character IC. What isn’t fun, is arguing in the OOC - like many people in old guild’s arena often did - about inane garbage. It’s also not fun when you have people blatantly twist logic and power scaling in their favor just because they want to win. It’s that inherent desire to win that makes for a toxic environment sometimes.

I can attest to how butthurt losers get, too. Although I wasn’t especially bad in the glory days of arena, I would do as I’ve mentioned above on multiple occasions, and get frustrated immensely whenever I lost. Others would downright abandon threads when I used the ‘fair and balanced rules’ to ‘pubstomp’ them, even if I was quite literally abusing them to win.

Of course I rarely ever lost 25/5/1 get at me casual trash huehuehue /egostroke

Looking back on it now, some of the most entertaining fights I had ended in draws, with each character surviving.

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Ah yes, writing communism. Great in theory, haha. That was what I was referring to.