Something I just thought about (Regarding the FGC).

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LP

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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?
 
Well, in the UK FG tournaments are being held alongside certain PC tournament events, which is a great way for interest to cross over into the PC community, which is huge. I guess that's a start?
 
I know, back in the day, around the year 2000, I found out about SRK from people at the arcade. Same thing with the old soulcalibur.com forums. Telling people that you run into online about it (send random message to someone you destroy in ranked saying "l2p @ 8wayrun.com") is the only other way I can think of. It'd be pretty awesome if game producers would start including these websites in the instruction manuals, but that could reflect negatively on them should some people get their feelings hurt or something bad after they found out about it that way. So, it seems like the best and only way atm is by word of mouth.
 
I just checked putting "soulcalibur" and "soulcalibur v" in google and 8WR isn't on the first page of results

however, if you search for "soulcalibur community" it shows at the top of the first page
 
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