Something I just thought about (Regarding the FGC).

This'll be funny.

I found out about 8wr while doing a google search trying to find cheat codes back in august of '08. I had never particiapated in a forum before and had no clue what 8wr was about. Hell I didnt even know there was a competative scence for SC at all till I found this place.

Hell me and like 3 homies would have weekly battles with each other in SC2. We thought we were the best in the country at the time. Holy crap were we wrong!

After finding this place and seeing what goes on, after the first few days I was convinced this place was nothing but a bunch of nerds that I wouldnt be able to realate to in real life. Most yall, I still wont. But Today Im Maxi mod, one of the top 3 posters (big whop I know) and an avid member of this community. Rather I go to the ends of the earth to fight in tournies or not, I still consider myself a helping member of the FGC. Mostly by my support that I give.
 
I think I found out about soulcalibur.com from doing a lycos search for "soul calibur forum" in 1997 or 1998, because I had just discovered you could learn pretty much anything about anything by asking the right questions on a forum.

Then I just migrated with the community as we moved to guardimpact.com, then soulcalibur.com again, then caliburforum.com (didn't really participate too much in that one), and now 8wr.com
 
I found about 8WR when I was searching for alpha patroklos combos on google and on the first page of results was "Alpha Patroklos combo discussion" thread at 8wayrun.com, so I decide to check it out and liked how helpful it was.

But it wasn't till I was playing player matches and optymuss suggested I check out the page more, and so I did and liked it a lot and so I joined 8WR
 
LostProvidence said:
What is really being to promote fighting games, to outside sources? I mean, not even to the great majority of people, but, like, people who actually play these games but don't come to places like 8wr, SRK, TZ, etc? Seriously, how do people come about these sites, streams, communities, etc? I'm pretty sure that I looked for stuff like this before I ever came to find out about these sites and ran into places like GameFAQs (I honestly don't even remember how I found out about 8wr...).

I think the free publicity would be in the big companies better interest, but that's me...but are there any ways that these types of things can get out to potential community members outside of word of mouth?
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I've wondered the same thing. In the end, it seems like it's up to us as a community to make the community. This can be a problem, though. There are those who've formed recognition around their name, and can be bad reps for 8WR. I'm guilty of this, as is many. But, majority of people I meet, who I feel have potential, I'll inform on some tricks towards getting better and always refer them to 8WR.

It's kind of sad that there's no promotional objectives in a lot of our members. Maybe this will inspire some members to go seek out new recruits? Looks like we'll be needing it.

As for me, KrayzieCD and Lobo were the one's who informed me about 8wr via PSN. Thanks.
 
Xeph said:
I've wondered the same thing. In the end, it seems like it's up to us as a community to make the community. This can be a problem, though. There are those who've formed recognition around their name, and can be bad reps for 8WR. I'm guilty of this, as is many. But, majority of people I meet, who I feel have potential, I'll inform on some tricks towards getting better and always refer them to 8WR.

It's kind of sad that there's no promotional objectives in a lot of our members. Maybe this will inspire some members to go seek out new recruits? Looks like we'll be needing it.

As for me, KrayzieCD and Lobo were the one's who informed me about 8wr via PSN. Thanks.
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Already ahead of you. I went to a gamestop earlier today and was talking with a gamestop employee there and were talking about fighters and told him about this website. Hopefully he comes on 8wayrun and introduce and join the Nebraska SC scene. As for recruiting new kids Pocky-Yoshi pretty bomb at getting new folks welcome on here.
 
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