Well, I'll be here for the inhouses this week. I don't work tomorrow at all, so I'll be around.
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If you could give us your feedback here (if you haven't already), that'd be great.
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- Yea, some of us have changed our names or never had similar names in the first place. I used to be TheNamelessBard, but now I'm amandamonium (not that I was around last week).
- Someone could stream it, I suppose. If no one is opposed to me doing so I'll consider it.
- This is one of the reasons I opposed this change to the balancing/team building system in the first place. I also just don't see (as a referee myself) how randomly changing the system was supposed to fix anything.
- There isn't any solution to that besides play it safe and do your best to not get so behind that you can't do anything in teamfights. I personally enjoy playing against people much higher ranked than me much more than I enjoy playing against people who are supposedly "closer to my level", but I've also been playing the game for almost five years at this point.
If you could give us your feedback here (if you haven't already), that'd be great.
Let's quit the circlejerk:
To everyone who still cares: Stop treating the symptoms and go after the underlying cause! The problem with the NA inhouses is the whole atmosphere itself. Remember, people will always have to make a conscious effort to actually show up at these events, and if the atmosphere sucks, then why would they want to be there?!
Equate this to waiting in line for the premier of a movie: If the movie is great, like Citizen Kane, then it's totally going to be worth it to stand in line for 4 hours. However, if it's like The Phantom Menace, then yeah, you're going to want to scoop your eyeballs out with a spoon.
In the end the people who participate in these events have to realise that they need to really change the atmosphere of it; people need to be compelled to choose these events over shooting up heroin in their stomach in the local Taco Bell, so give them a reason to do so!
To everyone who still cares: Stop treating the symptoms and go after the underlying cause! The problem with the NA inhouses is the whole atmosphere itself. Remember, people will always have to make a conscious effort to actually show up at these events, and if the atmosphere sucks, then why would they want to be there?!
Equate this to waiting in line for the premier of a movie: If the movie is great, like Citizen Kane, then it's totally going to be worth it to stand in line for 4 hours. However, if it's like The Phantom Menace, then yeah, you're going to want to scoop your eyeballs out with a spoon.
In the end the people who participate in these events have to realise that they need to really change the atmosphere of it; people need to be compelled to choose these events over shooting up heroin in their stomach in the local Taco Bell, so give them a reason to do so!
GrandmasterD wrote:
Let's quit the circlejerk:
To everyone who still cares: Stop treating the symptoms and go after the underlying cause! The problem with the NA inhouses is the whole atmosphere itself. Remember, people will always have to make a conscious effort to actually show up at these events, and if the atmosphere sucks, then why would they want to be there?!
Equate this to waiting in line for the premier of a movie: If the movie is great, like Citizen Kane, then it's totally going to be worth it to stand in line for 4 hours. However, if it's like The Phantom Menace, then yeah, you're going to want to scoop your eyeballs out with a spoon.
In the end the people who participate in these events have to realise that they need to really change the atmosphere of it; people need to be compelled to choose these events over shooting up heroin in their stomach in the local Taco Bell, so give them a reason to do so!
To everyone who still cares: Stop treating the symptoms and go after the underlying cause! The problem with the NA inhouses is the whole atmosphere itself. Remember, people will always have to make a conscious effort to actually show up at these events, and if the atmosphere sucks, then why would they want to be there?!
Equate this to waiting in line for the premier of a movie: If the movie is great, like Citizen Kane, then it's totally going to be worth it to stand in line for 4 hours. However, if it's like The Phantom Menace, then yeah, you're going to want to scoop your eyeballs out with a spoon.
In the end the people who participate in these events have to realise that they need to really change the atmosphere of it; people need to be compelled to choose these events over shooting up heroin in their stomach in the local Taco Bell, so give them a reason to do so!
The thing is I haven't participated in an inhouse for a few months now and stepped down from hosting them. Other referees stepped in and changed a few policies to hopefully improve the atmosphere in general. The only real problem now is the amount of publicity these inhouses get since all the veteran members, including myself, have probably stopped showing up to inhouses because of the trauma from the whole "i'm getting stomped so i'm mad" / meaningless complaints about not wanting to play with x player. Playing in the more recent inhouses I've noticed these things die down and overall it's a more uplifting environment. It's the day that's total trash because it conflicts with most peoples schedule (unless it's late in the evening, but who knows for right now because most people are on spring break). If people don't enjoy coming, that's their own fault, but don't try and keep something on a day just because if fits their schedule best! Btw, I thought Citizen Kane was a boring movie, but hey that's only my opinion, everyone has a different opinion.
OTGBionicArm wrote:
I (and other people) had legit complaints, I don't they should be trivialized by anger. Everyone gets mad when an issue happens over and over again.
Yeah I understand that there were some issues not solved that should've been addressed, that's partially my fault, but when you start getting angry at other players/lashing out just for playing how they want and not trying to compromise at all it just ended up making the situation worse.
I honestly tried all suggestions to alleviate the the experience, but no matter what I did people still had some problems.
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