It is very sad state of affairs that after 3 rounds of World BATL, 8 months of planning, 3 months of website design and hours of game day preparation, that many of our regular members still don't play. Its also sad that 3-5 of our BF Admins have not once played, you know who you are. Its extremely discouraging to see 15-20 members and 3-5 Admin online playing BF4 , while we are running WB, not come join their clan sponsored event.
To those of you that come play, I thank you. Seriously, it was not easy to find outside free time to create the website, the game rules (thank you @@Freefry Freeburg and @@Fir3Marshal ), or to setup the game and run it (can't thank you enough @@mouselad ).
I am quite disappointed in my clan right now, tbh. I joined the clan to be part of a community of gamers that enjoy playing like games with each other. When I first mentioned World BATL, it received huge interest with over 300 posts. I wouldn't have got it up and going without that. Feedback was good and people vowed to play. Now those same people sit playing in a different server, while the game is running. Or they sign up, and don't show up, only to find them playing BF4 saying "Oh sorry, I forgot. I guess I'll skip it today."
With the population of BF4 dwindling and the lack of member and Admin interest or support of World BATL, we will attempt to run one more round of World BATL.
If the situation repeats itself, World BATL will be shutdown on XI servers. I will attempt to continue to run it through some other means of gaming community support. There is interest out there for this type of game, but without the support from our community it will never prevail.
We, you, have a chance to make a great game that could potentially introduce us to many other Idiots® that share our similar vision, excitement and brotherhood. A chance to keep building this wonderful family, to ensure we have friends to play with in the future, whatever it may hold. But that chance starts with how much you are willing to contribute. Right now, it doesn't seem like much. You have the chance to change that. The question is, will you?
Signup for the next WORLD BATL will be announced this week. We that play, hope to see you there...
TL;DR - It's disappointing to see no support from clan members and admins alike. World BATL will run one last time, if history repeats itself, the game will seek support from other sources.
To those of you that have shown up to previous BATL's, I thank you. It's amazing how much fun we have playing it, even when it's as simple as 5 on 5. What a great time it is!! Thanks again!
If you have a story or positive experience during a time you played World BATL, share it here, so others might get a better idea of how much fun it really is.
/rant,
OddJob