SC2SEA.com - Starcraft 2 SEA eSports Community Site

Fullmetal · Sat, 16th-Apr-2016, 8:46 PM

sc2sea have been incredibly slack with trying to maintain the oce/sea community. We're given a community forum with a layout that hasnt been updated since 2011??? (or was it 2010?). The mods haven't been active. Tournament organizers like eddie and elusory carried this website on their backs. I don't trust sc2sea to host the oce/sea community. I don't trust sc2online to host it either, as it is focused on appealing to the international competitive scene. I would suggest we go back to cybergamer if we want a new medium. The reality is though that our scene is tiny and fewer than ever are interested in involving themselves in this community.

There is a discord community chat that has 24 people. That is literally containing the majority of our active scene. That's how puny the scene is. The reality is that this game isn't worth even being around unless you can compete in wcs, even then you probably won't get anything out of it because we are already oversaturated and the admins of our tournaments are incompetent half of the time.

not to mention: most of us don't even have an ideal server to ladder on and haven't since the release of Starcraft.

ThatGuyDoMo · Sun, 17th-Apr-2016, 9:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Fullmetal

I would suggest we go back to cybergamer if we want a new medium.

Cybergamer may be the worst idea for an alternative I've ever heard to this day.

When was the community ever even on cybergamer enough to warrant "going back to it"

syfIce · Sun, 17th-Apr-2016, 10:30 AM

i think what azure says is right just look at the decrease in melee participants since the swap of the sites i feel if sc2 online had a more welcoming feel to its homepage would bring the casuals back

and who knows we may find a new hero amongst them

asdfSchnitzel · Sun, 17th-Apr-2016, 10:52 AM

honestly for me, it was the fact that I've been using sc2sea for so many years now, that I didn't really want to just completely change everything I was checking on a consistent basis to a site I wasn't comfortable with. Also one of the main pulls for sc2sea for me was the chatbox, as well as the tournaments - something that sc2online has lacked cohesion with. Also cybergamer ROFL

**syfRize** · Sun, 17th-Apr-2016, 10:59 AM

I think the only reason I personally wanted to shift places is because of the mods/admins here, whether they were too inactive or whatever - it just felt stale I guess.
In hindsight, sticking to the one site would've been better, if there was a redesign or more power/freedom given to active members of the admin/mod teams.

I literally only use Sc2Online as a calendar at the moment, which is pretty shitty. But I just feel like sc2sea is the place to be, it's more of a home.

Not sure what Fullmonkey meant about CG, the people in charge of running things there are fairly(extremely) incompetent lmao.

Infected · Sun, 17th-Apr-2016, 11:33 AM

I feel like the causal and community scene was already pretty bad in 2015 for sc2sea but it definitely showed towards the end of 2015 with BSG, GPD and clan wars for that skill level disappearing entirely.

It sucks seeing every clan war be masters/GM with the occasional diamond starter these days.

Now with the addition of sc2 online and 90% of tournaments being posted there it really shows how artificial the activity of the general community was in the last year imo.