Why I don't want to play FFR much anymore
Posted on: September 11, 2007, at 01:20:33am

Let's see...there are so many reasons it's hard to list them all.

1. First, and the biggest reason: upscroll. Omg, it's like everything is totally built around this, and for those of us downscrollers, it's a huge drag. They've gotten r2, Resonance, a bunch of widgets, and MP a long time before it had downscroll. This totally annoys me, especially when I figure I could have easily played tons of MP during all that time and became an MP mod or something maybe if it freaking had reverse all that time, but noooooooooooo. Now I don't really care about that, though, as I don't even really like MP anymore. There are also tons of things that just seem totally made with upscroll in mind. There are evil pulsing backgrounds that have circles and stuff that actually moves down on the screen during the song, which is very annoying when the arrows are also blue and also moving down on the screen. Even that little part of the screen below the lifebar is not flat on top, yet it is flat on the bottom. This usually results in me seeing up and down a little before left and right on 2x with my screenshrink I've been using, which seems like a disadvantage to me. Also MP always defaults to UP, which doesn't bother me that much, but if you quit MP with a song loaded, even if you had selected DN, it will still just start up the song on UP, which makes me go into a rush to reload mode.

2. Tokens. Omg, there is so much to say about these dumb things. There are sites people can go to that just have a video of how to get them, tell you how to get them, or just post links to all of them, except 18, which you can't get that easily. I've found it really not fun looking for any of them, so I've just used those other sites for the most part. Skill tokens are even worse. Seriously, why should being good at the game get you like 20x more extra songs than being a subscriber? Also, I feel like this has made FFR a pay to play game. Sure, I could unlock Otaku Speedvibe Oni, but only if I play Balloon Fever like 2000x more times, or if I buy a really good keyboard. I'm not fond of either and find it just horrible that there's a token that has such a ridiculous req, especially since I think skill tokens actually encourage cheating, since it can get you more songs. Therefore, unless you're one of the select few who can unlock within 6 of all the skill tokens, cheating will get you more songs than subscribing. Plus you'll get the subscriber songs, anyway, but if you can't get a token, you'll just never get to play that song, which seems really lame to me. And with my little way of thinking that the more hard songs you have to practice on, the better you get, I figure I can't get up to my potential without having all of the hardest songs, so I figure it's just not worth trying, and I might as well just do something else. I'm really missing the days when you could just play for fun, and it didn't matter how good you were. Now FFR sucks IMO for everyone except the extremely skilled or the staff. I don't fall into either of those, so I consider it to suck for me. I need to quit saying crap like that I don't want to be a staff member, b/c every time I do, it seems they add something that gets me interested in the site again. The last time I said that, then they added these new really cool profile games. However, for some reason, you have to hang out in MP to become an MP mod to be a profile chat mod, not hang out in profile chat, so that doesn't really get me anywhere in accomplishing that, but I don't really see why they're combined like that, except that it requires less effort on their part and they seem to be trying to keep the number of staff members pretty low.

3. There are actually quite a few more little reasons, but those are just the ones that totally came to mind that have driven me crazy. Obviously things like cheaters, MP laggers/spammers, etc. don't help. Also I don't have anything good to look forward to. I'd hate it if 3rd style were released, if it didn't have reverse, or anything else FFRish without reverse, plus I don't like any of the new songs plus they have almost no new really hard songs, and even they suck and are only hard do to jacks, which aren't the fun part.

Yes, I know my numbers make just about no sense, they're just sort of there, but it doesn't really matter. As long as it's good enough that people understand the content, that's all that really matters.

1. 1: Duster-Man2288
   Posted at 7:09pm on September 11th, 2007

   You should play more FFR until ur rank 1 on FFR!
2. 2: Doug31
   Posted at 7:48pm on September 11th, 2007

   No, I've already been rank 1 before, so I don't really feel much determination to accomplish that now. Plus see the above.