Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
Other two questions
goal for encore: we never really had one, encore really just grew out of wanting more of a good thing
Aaron Donaghey
33 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Hey man, appreciate the answers
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
33 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
and what currently differentiates core from encore... at the moment not a lot really
Aaron Donaghey
33 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
but I think you shoudl put them on the thread
theres a fair few rumblings going on [:(] its not just me on the thread
but understand if you rather answer to just me
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
32 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
just yourself for the moment
Aaron Donaghey
32 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
k, no worries.
On a personal level though
Do yah see where im coming from?
or am i being out of line raising the concerns
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
31 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
yeah man I do, and to be honest if these are concerns people are having then they need to be raised
Aaron Donaghey
30 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Well . I semi raised them a few months ago
I was hoping would just get fixed.
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
30 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
we're finding it awkward trying to gauge what people want because let's face it, people rarely tell anyone what they want
Aaron Donaghey
30 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Can I throw maybe an honest but stinging opinion towards you guys?
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
29 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
previous attempts to outreaching via asking people at weeklies, posts and polls etc on facebook/forums don't get any useful feedback
other than 'move the sofas to encore'
voice away
Aaron Donaghey
28 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
It seems like to me, the people running it . You CJ, et all have perhaps lost touch with some aspects, via some personal interests
That sounds horrible but its not meant that way
personal passion is a huge thing
but atm video games seem absolutely like an afterthought
(btw thats not a critique , you absolutely should do what you find fun)
(not a personal one anyway)
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
27 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
completely agree - we can see darragh and robert making huge strides and pouring a lot of effort into their respectives fields, and RP always has a lot of effort from individuals as opposed to the group
Aaron Donaghey
27 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
I think warhammer is a very good example
It practically runs itself
Seems to work like clockwork
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
25 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
well they seem to know exactly what they want and do it
Aaron Donaghey
25 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Yeah so
going back to the point about , not getting feedback
Why would this prompt the actions taken over the last few months
Such as, moving certain groups down to desginated seats
and the gaming schedule
It boggles my mind what prompted those
I spoke about this in a lengthy manner with CJ once
dunno if he ever brought it up
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
23 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
gaming schedule I would have said was from an organisational standpoint, and ease of running... however I'm being told it was mostly an anti-theft device originally. and 2nd reason, we had lots of people taking up consoles for the majority of the day on one game, and then free consoles weren't left over
Aaron Donaghey
22 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Re: The 2nd
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
22 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
referring to the moving people into groups thing, both the barry's and I believe brucie at the time wanted their own street fighter area. that was accomodated for, and now it's not wanted?
Aaron Donaghey
22 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
My observation is that what you are talking about is true to a degree
I would call it projector hogging those
though*
there were always plenty of free xboxes
infact they are normally unoccupied
Which is what confused me the most.
It's not like there were queqes so I was confused at that
(can never spell that)
as for Anti Theft, fair enough can see what you mean . I think its an perhaps too strong a measure
Why not use the same game swap system as before, but have the staff physically come in and put on the game themself
As for Street Fighter Area
first I've heard of it
would be suprised to find out it was ture
Aaron Donaghey
19 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
(ALSO WHO IS THE 2nD BARRY I DONT KNOW HIM LOL)
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
19 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
Barry Stanton (chun li)
Aaron Donaghey
19 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Ohh
well I dont know him so well so couldnt possibly comment
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
19 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
fair
Aaron Donaghey
19 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
The way cj put it to me was
at the time they wanted to downplay the whole fight ing games only thing
Which frankly. Pissed me off
Im a pro games person
not a genre [:)]
and I thought it was extremely rude and infact underhanded to go about it in such a manner
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
18 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
well having street fighter on the projectors every week was putting off new people from coming to the weeklies... we did actually have people who came in and gave us feedback that 'all you guys seem to do is play street fighter'
Aaron Donaghey
18 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
COol well
I can appreciate that
but I mean seriously mate
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
17 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
so there was that, coupled with giving the crowd the projector they wanted
Aaron Donaghey
17 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
We are like, massive regulars there
what stopped you guys from going over and saying
hey guys couldyou tone it down a bit
instead of the sneaky sneaky
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
17 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
again
Aaron Donaghey
17 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
I mean, we dont bite and we dont smell that bad ( I think)
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
16 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
the 'underhanded' and 'sneaky sneak' comments seem unwarranted when we were essentially 'giving the fightan players what they wanted'
Aaron Donaghey
16 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Well man I'll put my cock on the line and say right now I don't believe Blank Barry or S-Carlin said that within 2 months of it happenin
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
16 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
also, chris and mark did go over to them at one point and asked them to tone it down at one point, and it wasn't met with good reaction... neil remembers the exact names of people in question
Aaron Donaghey
16 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
So i think theres some crossed wires there
Would love to hear that incident
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
15 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
here's a point I'll make... carlin seems one of the least involved in anything atm
he's not in my mind when i'm mentioning the fightan crowd anyway
Aaron Donaghey
15 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
but i dont understand in that case then.
(sorry if the sneaky sneaky seemed personal, its not bud)
^ Just said up here
referring to the moving people into groups thing, both the barry's and I believe brucie at the time wanted their own street fighter area. that was accomodated for, and now it's not wanted?
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
14 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
not personal man, just right now we get complaints if we do nothing, and when we make changes to give people what they ask for, they get all sneaky sneaky and grumble among themselves and never approach us again
Aaron Donaghey
14 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
but , if you dont idenitfy him as being part of the fightan games thing
why would you act on that?
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
13 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
I never mentioned brucie earlier
Aaron Donaghey
13 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Uhm, you did.
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
13 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
I was speaking purely from the barrys because I remember them being vocal about it
hang on *scrolls up*
'i believe brucie at the time'... my apologies
Aaron Donaghey
12 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
no worries
Anyway. I can't help but feel maybe end up wandering in cricles a bit here
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
11 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
yeah a little
now let me pinpoint something from earlier
Aaron Donaghey
11 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Sure
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
10 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
you mentioned 'theres a fair few rumblings going on'... firstly is it because people don't feel they can approach us or voice their opinions
and secondly are you hearing about this personally, or are you hearing it third hand
right now it seems people want stuff, but dont wanna tell anyone and just grumble to themselves/their mates about it rather than say or do anything about it
Aaron Donaghey
8 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Well in my own defense
I've mentioned to CJ about 2 months ago
and now im being very open about it
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
6 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
ok neil has a particular input here
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
5 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
is there anything in particular you think we can improve in response to these grumbles?
if people are unhappy then obviously we wanna make them happy. core wasn't made to make people miserable [:p]
Aaron Donaghey
5 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
I think its really just communication man
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
5 minutes ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
I agree
Aaron Donaghey
4 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
Fact of the matter is, there's not really any complete communication input via the gamer side
and everyone is to blame for htat.
I also feel like gaming has gradually become an afterthought
despite showing consistenly good numbers
Aaron Donaghey
3 minutes ago
Aaron Donaghey
at the encore 2 events ago, there was 20 for SFIV and 16 for Marvel
I dont remember the ones for the last one as I didnt have a hand in them
(btw please don't bung me in with a Fighting game only grou)
I am a fan of all game types [:)]
and i enter just about everything
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
about a minute ago
Mike Anti-Meta Durrant
gaming being an afterthought, you mean in general or purely for encore?
as far as encore is concerned we agree
Aaron Donaghey
about a minute ago
Aaron Donaghey
For encore,yes
for core, no
Core is cool but im not a fan of the recent sort of penning in
but i can live with it
you guys do a shit ton of wor
work
for consoles
big respect for this
but i mean if you actually just look at it on paper
Gaming at encore is just not there
The logistics alone must be a nightmare
So after what? 3 years?
I dont blame the fact that maybe you guys drifted off a bit [:D]