Hello,

two months ago Australia saw the largest eSport tournament seen to date. With a budget over a quarter of a million dollars Gamerthon surpassed expectations and set a bench mark that could not be matched.

There was one problem.

Call of Duty 4, a promising game that could potentially surpass the bigger games like Counter-Strike source and Halo received an appalling response.

Looking over the statistics here on Cybergamer - Just over 1200 members from Victoria. I am assuming at least 500-700 of these are COD players too. What is it that makes you decline the offer to meet and greet your online counterparts?

Is it:

A. Too geeky?
B. You're too geeky and are afraid of people's opinion of you?
C. Not worth spending your weekend
D. Too much to enter - with so little return
E. Other

Anything Interactive ARE the experts in running gaming events in Australia, however it seems the same formula and approach used in other games does not impact well on the Call of Duty 4 communities. Give us some ideas & feedback - or like all online games - COD4 in Australia will go nowhere.

With Gamerthon 2009 already in planning imagine the potential for COD4. The 8 team turnout for the biggest thing COD in Australia has ever seen is an embarrassment.

With the support from the community, and the open ears of Anything Interactive anything is possible, so please, tell us what you want.

kindest regards,

Cameron Rambert
Anything Interactive
www.anythinginteractive.com

not host it on weekdays?
what i thought was the major problem...

Weekdays was the major problem what rawR said, i know you gave alot of time for people to prepare for this event. But most of the people who play this game are either in school/uni and have a part time job.

You guys based the event on victoria's school holiday, NSW/QLD holiday started on the 2nd week of your guys holiday so that was kind of hard too.

I mean there was a great turn out for ZAM CoD2 lan even though CoD2 was fairly dead at that stage alot people turned up because it was a weekend.

Having it on a weekday that wasn't in alot peoples holidays was the marjor reason. Had it been on the Friday/Saturday/Sunday like atleast some of CSS had, then there would have been a better respone.

Have to agree, only reason i didnt go is that i had commitments during the week. Weekend would have been great. I would definatly go to a LAN on a weekend if im available

most teams in CGm CGo won't attend because they know they will lose and have no competitive spirit.

Having it on the weekend would help out alot. This seems like the main problem you guys had.

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Some other possible problems...

Lans mainly appeal to the more dedicated and skilled gamer for one main reason.

i think the problem lies in so many good players just give moderate to low skill level players (even very skilled players) crap all the time about how crap they are (even if they arent crap; often its a joke aswell but not seen as such)

This is bad enough online but to cop it in real life (at a lan) is even worse.

After all why would someone come to watch a person or a team play who calls you or your clan crap all the time?

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You want this game to go big? youve got to give reasons to those moderate to low level skill/dedication people to interact with the top players. make it more fun for them and less competitive for them.

so much emphasis seems to be on doin well rather than having fun and thats one thing i think the community could have more of.

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The fact that some of the cod community is quite negative doesnt help either.

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again, just some opinions, no flaming please

reply to Peppers:

people are shit.

people will say shit people are shit.

if shit people cant look past that then they will always be shit.

if shit people want to stop being shit they will stop being shit and thus stop being called shit.

humble opinion.

Alot of decent players in cgm/cgo teams mate. Could quite easily form a few "competeitive" LAN teams if they really wanted to and thought it was worth it.

Most of the online teams just play for the fun of it, not to be pro.

Well that was a well thought out reply(just in case you didnt know lots of sarcasm there)

Yeah i havent lanned yet but if i did it wouldnt be mid week due to work.

I can't quite put my finger on why, but i seriously loath you sgt pepper

Weekdays is def the major problem. I also didnt go because i had no DECENT team to go and play for.

Well tbh, Snypers reply was actually quite appropriate. If you took the time to read it and actually comprehend what he was saying it might make a little more sense.

Also Xentha, I think he was commenting more on the fact that the teams that are at a semi-decent skill level still wouldn't bother because they don't have that "competitive spirit", they think they aren't going to have a chance so they just don't bother, not the way to operate if they actually want to improve.

I think its more to do with paying an entry fee and knowing that you will 100% hand it over to people you dont like.

LAN's with no/smaller prizes are so much more enjoyable for everyone.

The reason i didnt come was because it was in Melbourne and i cant justify spending money on a plane ticket to play computer games. However, if it was on a weekend and someone mentioned some social (other than computers) "activities" i probably would have come.

i didnt mind weekdays or weekends, i really enjoyed gamerthon but i guess in other peoples cases weekdays was a problem hopefully 2009 WOULD BE HUGEEEEEEEEEEE <3