Mr. Smart guy?
You say that like it's a bad thing
Just like in ACM everything's relative however
You spend all your time in the match play arena that had less people than it did before any changes.
Well not anymore. Just because something happens at roughly the same time does not mean it was caused by that other thing. It is a subtle but significant point of logic. Ideating (creating ideas and solutions) from a flawed analysis or starting point amplifies the issues with any proposition exponentially from that point out. Like a branch getting thinner and thinner the farther it gets from its host. That's why Ack-Ack's findings are so significant. That is data from the primary source. Gold dust feedback from the target user group. Long-term players are of lesser value on this point.
Why am I am the only one who's not allowed to be a dick?
I don't think you're a dick buddy. I just think you're a bit misguided thinking that being a good stick translates into knowing how to bring more players in an evolving, inconstant environment. Oh and you're a noob at reasoned argument. I don't know what your education level is. Mine's waaaay too high. I have four degrees. A mixture of sciences and arts. I was professionally trained to analyse contradictory problems & make inferences and ideate. In both a scientific and artistic way. Unfair fight of course. I still love you though even if you're an uneducated country bumpkin (no homo)
What more proof do you need that the current MPA has suffered and needs to be looked at?
The DA numbers declined at a faster rate as the general population declined and experienced the tipping point of uncritical mass before the other arenas. I witnessed it. I was there almost everyday, starting just as most Americans were headed off to bed and often ending just as your primetime really got busy for years. Tempest time was the marking point for the end of the 'Breakfast Club' phase. Many of those regulars were the old H2H crowd. Because there were always people in there, there were always people in there. A lot of new players came there. I helped a lot, taught a lot of basics to a lot of people, including Midway (sorry about that, lolz). Occasionally an MA superstar would show up, but mostly only after an arena reset. Let's be frank, most MA players looked down on the furball crowd. I got quite a shock when I first went to the MA because the fighting spirit and ACM was cack by comparison. The condescension was completely unfounded.
How can anyone say it's "okay" just leaving it like it is?
No one's saying that it's okay with no numbers. It's unplayable on my timezone of course, as I have accepted. While you're in your US Timezone seeing it coming it has already happened to me (and Lusche for another example). Aces High has gone away from us. One
possibility you must face however is that there are problem domains with no solution. AH's fate might already be sealed by other more readily availably instantly-accessible ego-stroking activities. I said
might. Overswings are very nice opportunities.
There needs to be a free fight arena/area. Very simple.
Finally you're saying something productive. Well there
might be something in that. Might put something on the Wishlist tomorrow. Not terribly encouraged with the likelyhood of it being considered at this point TBH.
I'm happy to go to the DA and teach you some some real lessons about ACM since you consider yourself to be so high and mighty in the only arena you play in.
So I'm suspecting I have an insight into your value system here. You-have-to-be-good-to-be-anything sort of theme implying little equality and an exclusively hierarchical worldview. I myself do not view or experience the world this way. I don't believe I've ever claimed to be high and mighty about ACM even with the full self-knowledge that I can be antagonistic sometimes. Especially to some people apparently. I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of teaching myself to fly to a reasonably high level. I dare you however to find a single example of me smack-talking or holding that over another player. Often I end up helping. Or used to anyway.
I'm inferring your implication here is to 'teach me a lesson' for giving you a hard time. I understand that. But you should know that we have fought several times during my Bill & Ted's intensive guitar-training ACM phase where I went off by myself to discover the kind of ACM that some of the top players have been taught. So I do not speak in ignorance when I say I think we are approximately equals in ACM and I do not presently consider you could teach me anything in that regard. You can take that statement anyway you wish.