04-19-2016, 01:11 AM | #61 | |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I play like once or twice a week, and mostly FFRmania because I'm so tired to play the same old FFR songs over and over again. Also, FFRmania has A VAST AMOUNT of challenges to offer, unlike FFR the way it currently is.
I still have some goals but at the moment I am balancing between trying to keep my skill level up and letting this go. At this personal skill growth rate I will never reach the top; I just started too late to begin with and not I'm just getting old. The community is quieting down and also reducing the level of interest. Updates/development are not happening fast enough to keep users interested. (The raw scoring system has been implemented over a year ago, and still the post-game rank shows the combo scoring rank.) But I am still looking forward to the OT and I think it might be the last one. E: Etienne, I would still like to see more of your epic scores!
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04-19-2016, 06:29 AM | #62 | |
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I'm currently using StepMania for exercise. So I use it a lot, almost every day! In terms of StepMania with keyboard files, unfortunately, it is declining. I think the reason why it's declining is because of one simple reason: Interest.
My YouTube video that has 5.9 million views won't ever reach 6 million. Why? Because it's lost interest with the public eye. Nobody wants to play with magnets anymore. That was 2012. In the same respect, back in 2010 - 2013, SM was popular. Now, people are moving on with their lives and are spending less time with the game. This is just because the world is moving on, and objects that were once shiny now lose their luster. If this makes any sense, then tell me but that's the way I see this situation. To be perfectly honest, I've given up FFR/SM now. It's just something that happens overtime. It's not that we want it to happen, or that we can control that it happens...it just happens.
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04-19-2016, 08:00 AM | #63 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
nothing is motivating on here anymore. also seems like we only have 100 active players
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04-19-2016, 08:57 AM | #64 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I took a notion for it last year and played pretty religiously between October - December, then stopped again. I'd rather play other video games now instead.
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04-19-2016, 09:23 AM | #65 | |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
yo gaiz how can we get new players into the Quake community
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04-19-2016, 09:25 AM | #66 |
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04-19-2016, 11:28 AM | #67 |
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04-19-2016, 11:29 AM | #68 |
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He time traveled
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04-19-2016, 11:30 AM | #69 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
He could mean he gave up on the community and/or the keyboard scene, but uses Stepmania to play pad files for exercise.
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04-19-2016, 11:32 AM | #70 |
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As for me?
Uh... think the last time I touched any form of arrow mashing was a month ago? Or was it two? I had a short burst beginning of the year, I know that much. |
04-19-2016, 11:33 AM | #71 |
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04-19-2016, 01:27 PM | #73 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I can't even remember the last time I actually played.
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04-19-2016, 01:29 PM | #74 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I play daily on smo, and i think all of you that are worried about the future activity of the sm comunity should at least play online, because even if you want to play alone, it makes other users percieve a sense of activity, and is cool to track scores. Twitch streams also help if you have a decent hardware.
Regarding stepmania subforums on ffr, it is true they are getting more inactive everyday, but i can see that because the forum format is maybe too oldfashioned, the activity was been splited into a great ammount to the discord chat i guess And +1 to wafles and hi19hi19, the main problem is the online play, and to be fair, wafles did sml, which was a great thing for the community, even if it wasn't directly related to sm development.
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04-19-2016, 01:39 PM | #75 |
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04-19-2016, 03:30 PM | #76 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I stopped playing years ago because it wasn't fun
I stopped stepping two years ago because it lost meaning I can't pick either back up because everyone I knew is gone or doesn't play and the new people that took over I have nothing in common with
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04-19-2016, 04:28 PM | #77 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
This game is great for music aficionados, but other than that, you won't see many casual players. If any. Osu! has that on lock. It's either people who are familiar with this scene and have a strong affinity towards music games in general, or people who are hardcore and actually give a damn about getting insane scores, CTS, and paying for expensive keyboards.
Me personally, I've reached a desirable skill level that I don't really have a drive to get better. Plus, playing with my finger style (ring+middle) puts a cap on that. If I played with normal spread, I'd lost interest even sooner. Not to say I don't get that "damn that was a nice score" feeling, it's moreso that I no longer get that "damn I could've done better" feeling. Sucks all motivation and dedication from the game when you don't even care if your score is trash. Once the incentive salience dissipates, you can pretty much uninstall the game at that point. Risks outweigh the rewards. The only reason I still have it installed is because I still enjoy some older files that I like to experience again every once in a while. Xoon 5, couple of those FFRCPs, ODIPack 2+3, Red Fraction, Dark Chancellor, and PMPoE are the packs I consistently go back to, just to experience it again. No recent pack has done this for me aside from the Untitled pack, that was pretty dope. I feel even the steppers don't have much of a desire or motivation to create dope files to dope music anymore tho, and that's a tough pill to swallow when quality files are the backbone of this game. Also I sense a loss of creative spark in the files that I come across recently. For example. (not trying to diss or anything) I think the last Yolomania had like, what, 200 submitters or something crazy like that? The reason being is that it's very broad of a pack. you can submit anything. Let your mind fly. depsite that, there ends up being a central commonality in the song choices and file structures. In a pack with no limits on what you can submit, very few files really stand out. Makes you wonder.. Also, 6key > 4key. but unfortunately no real contributions for that mode anymore. I just play my usual suspects and dip out for a few months. Last edited by Jagakon; 04-19-2016 at 04:30 PM.. |
04-19-2016, 04:32 PM | #78 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I play stepmania 6key on and off on a semi-weekly basis. I have absolutely no interest in playing 4key anymore because in order to relate to ANYONE currently you're pretty much forced to play exclusively speed and stamina files—both skill sets I've never had to begin with, or had the motivational drive to improve. I could play for my own enjoyment, but I would only do so for X amount of time before I'm bored out of my mind and just switch back to 6key.
If I want to play 4key, I'd rather just play K-Shoot Mania or Sound Voltex instead.
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04-19-2016, 04:36 PM | #79 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
my interest level went down significantly once i realized (and painfully accepted the fact) that hakulyte will probably always have the #1 GT.
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04-19-2016, 05:29 PM | #80 |
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Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?
I stopped when combo scoring was no longer a thing.
Ruined mediocre scores. AAA or die is so disheartening. Theres no rush of "Ooh maybe I have a good FC this time!" Now every bad pass looks the same, or its X goods from AAA. |
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