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Quake / Re: Open letter to Quake 2 fam (servers dying fast) 
on December 09, 2016, 11:14:39 PM by NoBugsOnMe
If you advertise it correctly and it's for a decent amount say a couple hundred dollars for the grand prize(just an example, lets not get technical here), you could garner interest. Q2 is so old that the "millenials" if you will, don't even prolly knows it exists tbh. You throw a cash prize out there with all these idiots that don't want to work, you're telling me it wouldn't work? Yes the majority of the people will play the one time and quit, but even if you get a few people that continue to play afterwards, isn't that a win? Set a date for a month or two away, advertise it across every damn FPS website/forum/chat you can find and I guarantee people will line up to play/practice til the tourney happens. Since every game that is made in this day and age is garbage, I have a feeling people will get hooked. Hell, we just did a regular ra2 tourney and look at how many we got to sign up and that was 2 years ago with very little advertising. Build it and they will come. Add a "All this is possible thanks to quadz, especially for almost single handedly keeping q2 alive all these years. Quadz provides/pays for the servers used in this tourney so please donate, any amount will help" at the top and I'm sure people will donate.
You'd have to have the correct person to drive this though. Someone who is lazy or is fucking retarded(ex/2d) shouldn't lead it. And don't stop at one, do multiple tourneys. I honestly don't think they all have to be cash to keep people playing. There just needs to be a structured competition and people will continue to play. Just use the first one to get as many people as possible to return or try q2 for the first time then do a couple or a few without a cash prize, rinse, repeat.
You'd have to have the correct person to drive this though. Someone who is lazy or is fucking retarded(ex/2d) shouldn't lead it. And don't stop at one, do multiple tourneys. I honestly don't think they all have to be cash to keep people playing. There just needs to be a structured competition and people will continue to play. Just use the first one to get as many people as possible to return or try q2 for the first time then do a couple or a few without a cash prize, rinse, repeat.