2012 Naruto CCG Organized Play Updates

[texans07]

Please see the following link regarding exciting new updates for the 2012 Chunin tournaments: http://www.bandaicg.com/naruto/showthread.php?t=92982

Please let us know your feeling on these changes.

Discuss and enjoy!

[Paper]

So... in order to promote the game, you lowered the prize pool... Now my area's chunins are gonna get like NO prizing... fun.

[pyrot53]

Get more people into the game by offering them less incentive...not sure if stupid or just trolling. Not to sound too harsh or anything but seriously? Is this the best way you could come up with to get more players? Come to locals or get garbage chunins?
Im just gonna rattle off a couple better ways to get people into the game:

• Bring a friend promotion, someone who isnt in the bandai system yet will earn you X (Alt art promo card, special mat, etc)
• Mats exclusive to location (villiage) Being able to get something from your local that ONLY people in your location can get seems swagged out. Adds more value to it too and can be used at SJCs in that location
• Give out the swag like you did at old chunins Metal Card, Binder, Sleeves etc were all awesome.
• Make TIER 1 STARTER DECKS. Nobody wants to start a game if its gonna cost them an arm and a leg (granted that isnt necasarrily the case for naruto) nevertheless people want to be able to start competitive right off the bat
• Make the rating system ACTUALLY work. Get rid of the bugs that constantly increase players ratings who havent played the game in years then offer incentives for people to have a higher rating

Thats just the tip of the iceberg there is so much potential for some of the aspects you have that are just untapped.

[Paper]

Originally Posted by pyrot53

Get more people into the game by offering them less incentive...not sure if stupid or just trolling.

Agree with you for once. They wouldn't be trolling so this is indeed just stupid...

You're not gonna get more players by giving the current players even less prizing. That's just gonna push people away from these tournaments as well.

[kenshin007]

Originally Posted by Paper

Agree with you for once. They wouldn't be trolling so this is indeed just stupid...

You're not gonna get more players by giving the current players even less prizing. That's just gonna push people away from these tournaments as well.

Meijin: Hey, to increase the player base, Bandai has decided to lower the current prizing for the Chunin and will only increase if we get more players even though it's as hard as it is now.

Player A: .....

Player B: .....

Meijin: Any Questions?

Player A: That Magic table is looking good right now..

Player B: Not disagreeing there..

[LightningHer0]

I don't know how these are exciting new changes at all...
A lot of the newer players are easily discouraged because a lot of the same people top all the time. They don't mind playing the chunnins though because they believe they had a solid chance of getting top 8 and winning at least a mat. With mats not being offered to all of top 8 until a level 6 chunnin, (which you stated yourself that only 1 venue probably qualifies for level 5) this harshly discourages incoming players.

I understand that Bandai offers free prize support for these events, and it is very nice, but cutting the prize support so drastically for a game that is struggling is not a good business decision imho.

[FascinationMaxx]

Just get the ranking system to work, and give the like top 100 prizes at the end of 2 quarters of something.

[JDragon]

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Someone's putting their University of Phoenix Online degree to work.

Quality troll, Bandai.

[cous cous]

Originally Posted by pyrot53

Get more people into the game by offering them less incentive...not sure if stupid or just trolling. Not to sound too harsh or anything but seriously? Is this the best way you could come up with to get more players? Come to locals or get garbage chunins?
Im just gonna rattle off a couple better ways to get people into the game:

• Bring a friend promotion, someone who isnt in the bandai system yet will earn you X (Alt art promo card, special mat, etc)
• Mats exclusive to location (villiage) Being able to get something from your local that ONLY people in your location can get seems swagged out. Adds more value to it too and can be used at SJCs in that location
• Give out the swag like you did at old chunins Metal Card, Binder, Sleeves etc were all awesome.
• Make TIER 1 STARTER DECKS. Nobody wants to start a game if its gonna cost them an arm and a leg (granted that isnt necasarrily the case for naruto) nevertheless people want to be able to start competitive right off the bat
• Make the rating system ACTUALLY work. Get rid of the bugs that constantly increase players ratings who havent played the game in years then offer incentives for people to have a higher rating

Thats just the tip of the iceberg there is so much potential for some of the aspects you have that are just untapped.

That.

and...

I am kinda happy about the whole leveling up your store idea. but even at lvl 6....the prizing is just packs....as a player if i won with my deck, thats because my deck is as good as it can be already, i dont need any more cards...I dont want cards as a main prize...I want uniqueness, something that only I will have...The pin? Thats it? some thing that i cant put into use, and not even brag about as a trophy because of how insignificant it looks.

I would love to see, special dices, sleeves, deck boxes, mats, PROMOS? LIKE ALT RARES? all unique stuff be given rather than just 50 packs of cards.



so overall...I like the leveling up your store idea which will increase attendance, but the prizes are still real real bad...just not enough hype around the tournament....we need hype...

[kenshin007]

Originally Posted by JDragon

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Someone's putting their University of Phoenix Online degree to work.

Quality troll, Bandai.

He just put thousands to shame LOL