Hate Speech: Sharing is Caring (For Yourself)

This post makes a lot of sense, but I can still see a lot of players sandbagging, hoping the new tricks they discovered in the lab (in combination with the gimmicky nature of them) are powerful enough to carry them through a tourney. In the long-run, yes, you will become a better player if you share your information, but I guess what I'm saying is that not all people have the 'honor' (for lack of a better word) to look past the short-term advantage to see the long-run.

I think the way the 8wr community is shaping up, information sharing will be easy. It seems that users/veterans around here are realizing the importance of community in respect to the life-time of a competitive game. Keep up the good work everyone *group hug*.
 
microgamer said:
This post makes a lot of sense, but I can still see a lot of players sandbagging, hoping the new tricks they discovered in the lab (in combination with the gimmicky nature of them) are powerful enough to carry them through a tourney. In the long-run, yes, you will become a better player if you share your information, but I guess what I'm saying is that not all people have the 'honor' (for lack of a better word) to look past the short-term advantage to see the long-run.
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Here's my quick and dirty cost/benefit analysis on keeping secrets:
If I base my game around one bullshit tactic, let's say I'll be able to use it to cheese out 99% of my opponents. Without being exposed to playing without that tactic, however, running into that 1% in a tournament is death.

If I have experience against people who can counter my strats, however, I no longer fear the outliers who know about my bullshit tactic, while at the same time I have enough faith in my own skills as a player that I think I can beat people without parlor tricks, anyway, so...

Cost: Might have to use my brain more frequently in a tournament.
Benefit: Removal of potential guaranteed losses due to relying on tricks.

Honor doesn't factor into my decision-making process at any point.
 
I generally go about that mindset in playing any game. I usually try to analyze lots of different ways to dealing with certain 'setups' and attacks and learning different ways to deal with them. Still, it's kind of hard when I'm coming into the game later than most and the people I play with are so solid they tend not to use gimmicky stuff (I sometimes even tell them stuff to use against me more). One of my goals in playing any fighting game is to have my opponent play me and not simply try to run their gimmicks on me...because I know I can outplay anyone if I try hard enough.

P.S. I call every Chicago player out on using janky shit against other people, even if it works.

P.P.S. It's unbelievably funny how many fighting game players either throw all their gimmicks at the very beginning of a match or the very end.
 
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