by KaiserGlider » Jan 21, '15, 9:23 am
I haven't been as active in this section lately as I usually am, because I wanted to step back a bit and see how many of the other writers and mods said something. And also because I've been in Florida for a week.
Here's my current stance on PCW (some of this is taken from an email I wrote to PhenomRocks):
I don't really feel like running the game anymore for several reasons - mostly because classes are starting soon and I'm pretty sure that and some other personal tasks are going to make my schedule too busy to continue booking and putting together the shows. Secondly, I'm just not seeing enough enthusiasm to really make me passionate about keeping it going. There's still a small core group of writers who seem interested (Stratusfied, god bless you lol), but I don't think it's enough people. Another reason is something that Everlong, Str8Shooter, and Prophet have all brought up: if PCW continues, it'll only be a matter of time before we end up having this conversation again and again. The format is not sustainable. I definitely thought we could get more mileage out of it, but now I realize that I may have been wrong about that.
If the format changed so that it would be less work to run the game and less work for everyone else to participate in the game, that would be great and I would totally be on board. But I was never able to think of a way to change the format. If I had, I would have implemented it by now. I really appreciate all the suggestions made in this thread, but honestly I don't think any of them would really help. On a positive note, it's great to see Tim's game taking off. He has the right idea with people competing with each other - that motivates them to participate. Something like that, but character-based, would be great in PCW.
It would suck to see PCW die like this. We had a lot of awesome moments in the 1+ year that the fed was going strong. Is PCW done? Seems like it. As for me personally, I'm probably done as well. I could make a thread or poll to see who still wants to participate. But that's basically been this thread and the Onslaught preview thread.