CG EU ET: Bans & Future Plans

I get that, but the problem is.. people don't like change, they don't like being forced into doing something when there's an alternative, one that has been used for years even and they've familiarized themselves with. I don't know how CG Cups work, never partaken in one, never looked at one, or even at the site layout in general, but I can already tell that people will not want to spend their time creating new teams, possibly even having to add players to them to meet some required rule of minimal players, possibly stumble upon new rules that enforce no mercing, player switching or sticking to X amount of players per team or what not, all of which, of course, are quite reasonable, but... Not what the community is used to. And that being 1day cups only. Maybe certain other people don't want their work associated with CG even, for whatever reason, but would still like to make use of the anticheat, the list goes on and on, people will not succumb to change unless there is no alternative.
Additionally, you've essentially ruined any and all 3on3/6on6 IRC games, people again, will be forced into an "official setting" by only being able to play ladder matches, or "scrims" on the CG website, or ESL Versus. I for one, I like IRC games, quick, easy, hassle free, I use IRC on a daily basis, I run part of my business through IRC, adding another "interactive social" site to my tabs seems like an effort I don't want to dive into. I don't want to have to create a team and add players, accept/decline challenges, maintain a silly map list, possibly even await delays upon delays in which time I wait for gamestv admins to sort our game out and accept it and do god knows what, only so that I have to actually... take the game serious and try my hardest to win as opposed to just having a relaxed nice time, maybe even fool around a bit or try some odd things I would otherwise never do in an "official" game.
There is, in a player's or even community's point of view, absolutely no benefit what-so-ever, for you to be forcing everything to be ran on the CG website. Obviously, for you it'd be a great deal, for us however? A nuisance, no matter how you twist or pull it.
Don't get me wrong, we all very much appreciate being able to continue playing this game, even more so with an anticheat. But, this is the exact same issue people have had with ESL Wire in the past, this community is too old and way too spoiled for them to ever adapt. If this had happened 5, maybe 6 years ago, surely, but to this day... you're quite lucky to have the activity you do on the ET ladders. I believe I had this same argument with Sn4ke before, few weeks ago, it's a nice feature, it's definitely a great tool being able to scrim or "pug" and look for players available for such on a website, ESEA has done the same for CS, years upon years ago, but... these are things new games, new genres and new generations are standardized to, we're old, we're stubborn and above all, we're too ignorant to bother. I don't see the harm in allowing people to use your anticheat outside of a match game, if anything it acts as a great way of getting the word out, people become more aware (those not necessarily active on crossfire but still partake in the odd IRC game, there's hundreds of them), or even just public players. A new anticheat is just about the best advertisement you can have, get the word out, people realize they need this CyberGames tool to get onto their favorite ET publics with? Oh look at that, more unique hits, even if it's just for the first time download, 1 out of 10 might just get interested and does more than that.

I think that if CG doesnt allow non CG cups to use the AC (for games that it supports) this would be the only option.

It does some good and some harm, yes. :P

Will do!

http://www.crossfire.nu/journals/view/id/151440#c4362258

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