How often does anyone play this game anymore?

[MinaciousGrace]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

something about weaboos and 2015 having lots of packs and nobody ever really played the game in the first place

[MinaciousGrace]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

to be clear, a fucking anime weaboos

[cedolad]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I still play and step files every so often. It's hard for me to play because of my wrists, but I still try and involve myself in the community.

[icontrolyourworld]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

Also, files have gotten a lot more uninteresting, with patterning AND song choice, and stepfile authors simply just try to make it so their files are easy to score on.

I disagree with this actually! Although I tend to step geared towards stamina drain marathons, others have their own kind of way of stepping too. I think the problem we're facing is all patterns possible on 4k have been done to death, and nowadays people step files to cater to certain skillsets like jacking or jumpstream..... it's really not a problem imo, since it's easier to build skill now than ever before o.o

[lofty rhino]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I think the problem we're facing is all patterns possible on 4k have been done to death, and nowadays people step files to cater to certain skillsets like jacking or jumpstream.

This could also be adding to the problem that I am perceiving, but to your second point, I do think that people should start moving away from single skill files to multifaceted files.

Not to say that this is entirely a "bad" thing, but most files people play nowadays are straight 16th js files for 4 minutes.

So now what we have for these newer players are people who think that files people played during this supposed golden age of stepmania are now just cancerous poorly patterned files, which I dont think is true.

[Reincarnate]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

Even though Stepmania doesn't do much for me anymore, I'm still really interested in DDR/ITG. Unfortunately, the dance-game scene here in New York City is abysmal to nonexistent.

[Mahou]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

Even though Stepmania doesn't do much for me anymore, I'm still really interested in DDR/ITG. Unfortunately, the dance-game scene here in New York City is abysmal to nonexistent.

I thought there were rhythm gamers in that one arcade in Chinatown near timesquare or w/e?

[Reincarnate]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I thought there were rhythm gamers in that one arcade in Chinatown near timesquare or w/e?

There's a Chinatown Fair on Mott street, but the pads don't work very well. There's one machine that is decent (has a bunch of ITG + custom files, but no DDR IIRC), but either way, the arcade is always pretty empty back there whenever I've visited.

[AlexDest]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

i only have like 1 session where i push my limits once a month now. then i just play very irregularly across that month (e.g. casually playing for like 10-20 minutes a day or two, or not playing at all for a week or two, etc.).

personally i've felt like i don't belong in this community since i had started speedrunning (just over 2 years ago), and i've invested most of my time into that since then. recently i've been trying to get my life together, and it's becoming hard to find motivation for stepmania anymore.

i really want to get more into DDR/ITG though, whenever that will happen... idk.

[lurker]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

There's a Chinatown Fair on Mott street, but the pads don't work very well. There's one machine that is decent (has a bunch of ITG + custom files, but no DDR IIRC), but either way, the arcade is always pretty empty back there whenever I've visited.

the rhythm gaming community as a whole doesn't approve of CTF

[Zon Fire]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I still play..

Don't post scores much anymore though.

[sweet2kill210]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I play almost every day, I just tend to lurk forums and never post unless it's for a tournament or something. In fact, you can catch me in MP almost everyday at around midnight server time. :P

EDIT: Also, I plan on stepping my first few files (so they may be pretty sucky) once this semester at my college ends so we'll see how that goes.

[Elite Ninja]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I play very rarely and if I do it's just to check out new charts/songs and maybe re-visit some favorites. I lost my competitive nature in this game.

I've become more involved in other communities for games now like Tera and somewhat BnS and thus I've felt less connected with the FFR community over time.

I also just started college recently so most of the time I'm busy with that during the weekdays.

[sickufully]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

Used to play daily, now it's rare if I can get an hour or two within the week. Uni is slowly creeping up my priorities list and FFR is slowly moving down.

Kinda like Elite, I really only play my favourite songs or new content now.

Also, on another note, the forums seem almost separate from the game now. There aren't many game related threads/posts anymore. Even as I look at the Latest Forum Posts, there is really only 3 threads that are game related, 2 of them being the Rivalry threads and the other is the Weekly Updates. Everything else is TWG, other video games, SM, artwork or other misc things. Tournaments are scarce to non-existent, brag board threads are 90% SM and general talk usually has nothing to do with FFR (not that it has to). Dunno what I'm really trying to get at but mainly just seems like the forums are being filled with a lot of unrelated FFR things.

[Poison-]

Re: How often does anyone play this game anymore?

I played a few songs like 10 months ago but other than that it's been years