ET opinions [by low]

Hey there!
This is going to be a journal from a low.
You might not want to read it, but I thought it might be interesting for some people to see how newcomers experience the ET community, and maybe you will find some interesting points to why ET is dying off in the eyes of some people.

Moving on from pubs to wars

This scares many newcomers off the competitive way of gaming, maybe also huge talents! I pubbed this game for a few years and came to etpro, and the first thing I noticed was how "nice" people were.

Of course, there were wins and losses. There were skillfakes and nice matches. But 95% of my enemies at low- had one thing in common: They won against us - which is not hard to achieve. But also rubbing it into our faces all 2 minutes with egobinds, insults, I've never been called jewish/black/whatever else as often in my whole life as in the past 3 months where I've played active etpro.

Naturally I could smile about sarcastic comments and I did not lose my sense of humor, however, I know what is humor and what is pure faggotry. Same applies to ETTV, I was so happy when I found out about /tvchat off.

Getting Skill

Of course, I craved for more than playing low- matches. I had a few friends who had some success at etpro and I was allowed to play with them from time to time, huge kudos to the guys from dev1ous.net for that, and I also played as a mercenary in #6on6.et very often.
This is actually what strikes me as odd... everytime I played with a team that was skilled more than I was, I was able to learn a lot of things from them that I was then able to use myself.

But learning from the enemy is hard. By now I have learned to see what a low is and what isn't. I spent much time watching ETTV, mercing to bring new fresh skill to my team.

But what happens? We did not move on in skill, won a few matches more, but it seemed like our enemies were getting better and better too, and this in the same skill-class! Eventually, I wrote down people who searched for low+ and higher in a .txt file, scanning it before every scrim. I found some med+ people and high people searching for low- matches, and you guys know who you are, put yourself in the place of a newcomer to ET who wants to learn the game. Yet better put yourself into your own place when you had started the game.

By now, my team and me have achieved solid med- skill on 3on3, 5on5 and 6on6, which was pretty surprising to us due to the fact that med- was EASIER than low+ for most of the matches! Myself, I've merced in a few med+ matches now and found myself sometimes carrying the team in 6on6.

I would have had a much easier start with ET if there wasn't this huge level of skillfake and faggotry around etpro, and I've wanted to throw it all a few times already, just the cup we had signed up for kept me ingame, until I was skilled enough to survive in mIRC.

Basically out of this whole experience, Low (Now med- :3 ) tells you the following two things of his opinion:

1. ET dies because new people have too hard times with skillfakers
2. You can't get real skill without connections

Well, you can think different, but please consider if these things were true how to fix them, because I'm sure that it might help a bit with the issue ET is facing. You're saying newcomers want bling bling, I'm saying they can live without it if they face a nice, friendly community.

That's about it. See you and good night,
Saevio.


tl;dr improve community plz