Long time no post. After feeling a negative vibe around UBOFACTOR and the Real Baseball Online Forums, I decided to make a post highlighting the bright spots in the game. Yes this game is not perfect, but considering that people still play it it is certainly playable. Well, here we go!! The Top 10 Reasons you should say..Look at the Bright Side!!
10. A Growing Community
The game is seeing a growth that has not been seen in a very long time. The RK Channel and the PUG Channels are flooded with new characters. The breakdown (with no scientific proof) seems to be 50/50 between alts and new players. This game's foundation is its community, and the current community is a lot larger than it has ever been. When the older players return, the community should continue to excel at an all time high.
9. Improving Moderation
RK Challenges? Minor Challenges? Major Challenges? Ultimate Challenges? In the past these events were non existent. The current GM corp has been active constantly posting new events for the newer players and even including the higher level players in the action. The fact is, the players have constantly complained about the lack of GM moderation in this game, and suddenly we are being treated to events that are certainly not mandatory. Enjoy them.
8. More Tournaments.
Memorial Day Tournament, Cinco De Mayo Tournament, various Saturday Blasts, the tournament scene has returned to RBO. UBO2 saw very few tournaments, while RBO has now seen a prize tournament and is showing improvement as far as tournament availability is concerned. If you look at the registration for these tournaments, even without Rotowire, Storm, Blitz, Stigma, Gearheads and Redhorns, the game has seen excellent numbers for these tournaments.
7. A Pinkers Nightmare
No more pink. No more easy homeruns. The game changed immediately as pink was nerfed. The amount of homeruns a game dropped dramatically and the average hr/ab ratio is about 1 in 10. This leads to tighter league and tournament games as well as more competitive PUG games. It also allows for the development of good pitchers and for the separation between good, great, and bad hitters.
6. Improving Website
Though the UBO website team seems to have taken away features such as "last 24 days" stats, it has been improving. The Trophy Case is back for everyone's egotistical satisfactions and tournaments have been changed to a more specific format. The statistics can be viewed in top 10 format, and we can see a nice detailed schedule and recap of every game. Also, the annoying Slideshow on the main page is gone, and we have a nice sensible layout to look at. There is now a schedule on the main site and on the events page monitoring the challenges, keeping the community up to date.
5. Yes...They Are Listening!!!
Back in the "good ol' days" Netamin would have never listened to our feedback. Netamin did have closed Beta testers and the opportunity for information to flow was there. Unfortunately, the information was not flowing. Today, we see polls around the RBO forums and we have a small sense of understanding from the GMs. For example, the wave feature which we all hated was not completely taken away but it was edited drastically. The fact is, they are listening.
4. Game...Guard...For...The...Win....
Its security aside, Netamin and NCK have made progress beyond "memory hack detection". GameGaurd is a legit anti-hack and the days of not being so sure about the players on the other side of the field are gone. "Hacker!!! OMGZ HE HACKZZ" Hopefully, those days are gone.
3. League is COOOMING!!
Late June. Though Netamin seems to be inconsistent with deadlines, league is definitely on its way. We have a brand new automated (bug free) league system to look forward to. With teams anxiously waiting for competition, this league looks to be one of the most competitive of all time.
2. More Competitive!!!
In UBO2, it was Storm. They outleveled the competition and dominated tournament play. In 06, it was Stigma and Storm until the rest of the teams caught up level wise. Now, with every team on an equal level playing field, we have the most loaded Elite field to date.
1. The Game...Is Free..
Double Fusion and Advertising allows the game to be Free. No subscription necessary you can stop playing whenever you wish. You are not tied to this game.
Basically, we have a lot to look forward to. The game is getting better. Ignore the whiners and the people who make this game unplayable. Ignore the vets who long for the good ol' days and criticize the game when they could just play something else. They are like old people at a nursing home wishing for the 40s. Good Luck!! See You On The Field!!!
1 comments:
June 10, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Nice to see some people are looking for positives in UBO. There are still massive and endemic problems with UBO and Netamin in particular, but as long as you don't become complacent or an apologist, a little optimism never hurts.
Quick aside about Stigma--we were never one of the higher leveled major teams when we were playing. Storm, Siege, Yankees, Rotowire, etc., all leveled faster than we did. Fielder is still an AS I believe. We were never handicapped by any means, but to imply that we were winning because we had higher levels than other teams is false. A bunch of newer teams have since caught up to the older teams, but I've never thought of us as ever being in competition with the newer teams. By the time teams like Flight and Carnage and whoever else had the levels to play with the older teams, we already had one foot out the door, only playing UBO in league games, and often not even then.
We made it to the playoffs a couple times playing half-heartedly, but we weren't good enough to keep winning, especially when we started to run out only three or four guys consistently. I think it just shows that teams really do need to be quite active in PUGs in order to do their best in leagues. There's a long history in UBO of teams doing well and then slowly fading to be replaced by more active teams, starting with Maniacs, then Nightmare, then Outlaws, Bombsquad, Storm, Stigma, Bombers, and now Flight and whoever else.
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