"Republic Commando is dead." A sentence which has been spoken a lot. Everyone has heard it, and although it was easy to predict we are surprised. Suprised and sad.
Sad, that this wonderful game has lost it's activity. Sad, that members are fading away as time goes by. Sad, that even the most active players in past, where I count myself in, have gone inactive.
Just remember players like Avelyn, Davy, Inferno, Vash, Storm, Habbe, Mystic and many, many more in their active gaming-period. Some of them went inactive because of personal reasons and some of them switched their main game. Because Republic Commando is dead.
In past [2005, 2006,..], about 20 players were ready to play a match instantly. And what has left over? A bunch of players spending more time organizing a match than actually having fun while playing.
How many times did we try to revive Republic Commando? By Tournaments? By new Modmaps? By Petitions?
Opinions are divided. Some people say RC has gone even more inactive, some claim the opposite. But there is exactly one fact, nothing to discuss about, only numbers telling us the current gaming-activity:
http://fr.xfire.com/games/swrc/Star_War ... _Commando/
There is an average of 450 people playing RC a day.
http://fr.xfire.com/games/cod4/Call_of_Duty_4/
There is an average of 115000 people playing CoD4 a day.
The activity in Republic Commando didn't decrease much in the past months. But it's dead - compared to other successful games.
Don't get me wrong. I always loved playing Republic Commando, and I still do. Additionally, Republic Commando is unique in it's gameplay. It truly makes fun to play matches in RC.
And I think I'm speaking for everyone here when I say that we all had/have much fun as members of TeamXtreme playing Republic Commando.
Winning and losing tournaments, playing thousands of matches, having fun in TeamSpeak:
Republic Commando was/is our most successful division and we all put much effort in it!
And now the time has come. The time has come to change our future. It's about time that we create a new division, where we put all our efforts in, before Republic Commando falls down for once and for all.
It's about time that we create a new division, which is even more successful than Republic Commando was. Because in my opinion we have got far too much potential for spending it in a "dead game".
We have got a great community we build up over years, we always acted like a team, holding together in every situation. Now, once again, we have to act as a team.
Because organizing a new division is hard and desires dedication. And organizing a successful division is even harder.
It's hard but.. be honest. Didn't you ever wish to be successful in an active game? Didn't you ever wish to have more than 12 servers?... It's only up to you - and - this thing could work if we work together, if we all focus on a new game.
Additionally, VAsH won't be able to pay all the time for those servers. And we won't be able to donate often.
In case RC will fall apart someday, TX will be prepared. The community will stay alive, TX will stay alive, because we got another active division.
A statement of Vash brings me to another point:
VAsH wrote:
When you're forced to play two games actively, you will usually lose one of them. When it's e.g. RepCom and UT3, you'll throw UT3 away after some time, because you played alot more time in RepCom and you know way more people/clans etc.
You have to uninstall RepCom and throw it away to move your dedication to a completely new game alone. But that's actually not easy and that's like the most important reason why our former divisions fell apart.
Because of this we will create a new division with about 20 people (probably from the RC-Community) and afterwards we will begin recruiting in the new game which we will choose later.
Furthermore, I have thought of 3-4 recruiters who have the job to search and recruit more or less talented players ingame. So, this is basically the plan, now stand up, move your ass and realize it!
I hope you understand why I wrote this topic. I'm inactive but TX means much to me. I can't play actively but I can organize a few things...to lead you into a new area.
Please view the other topic I have made, and post which game you would like to play. When we have got enough options, I'll put up a poll where everyone can decide which game we will play in future (besides Republic Commando).
I don't want this to be forgotten in a few days. We have to act, if we want to set up a new successful division! Send this link to everyone in Xfire, ask everyone (!!) to take part in this new division.
This time we must have success, otherwise we won't have an active gaming-division (when RC isn't anymore) and more and more members will fade away.
The time has come to change our future.
- krauser
PS: I'm sorry if I offended anyone who is putting much effort in Republic Commando, it wasn't meant to be.
