I've been reading some recent posts about the league and about changing the format, etc. and pugs get mentioned a lot of the time in comparison to the league. Pugging is now a much more popular thing to do in UTA since people prefer the lack of organisation, the mixing and matching of teams, the fact you can hang around in the same channel for a good reason and the fact that pug results have no effect on anything, including the players' egos, as there is no real record of what 'clan' won what pug, what team is best and so on.
I remember when pugs came out and lots of people said 'yay, this will really help the league', but I don't think it did. I just think it helped the UTA community, which is not the same thing as the UTA league. It helped keep this community together but I think it hurt the league side by simply being more fun (or fun in a different way), more spontaneous, more flexible and with much less responsibility. I just wondered what people thought about this opinion I know the league has gradually and steadily lost a lot of players in the last two or three years, but even the ones still here often cba playing a match. Whether that's owing to comparative skill levels, laziness, or whether it's because people prefer pugging I dunno. But I just wonder what the league would be like if pugs didn't exist. Would people be more dedicated to league matches because that's all they had beyond pubs? Or would half the players still here today be long gone?
Disclaimer: this is not an attack on the pug designers or whatever, I'm not blaming them for the state of the league, I'm just wondering about popular opinion.
I remember when pugs came out and lots of people said 'yay, this will really help the league', but I don't think it did. I just think it helped the UTA community, which is not the same thing as the UTA league. It helped keep this community together but I think it hurt the league side by simply being more fun (or fun in a different way), more spontaneous, more flexible and with much less responsibility. I just wondered what people thought about this opinion I know the league has gradually and steadily lost a lot of players in the last two or three years, but even the ones still here often cba playing a match. Whether that's owing to comparative skill levels, laziness, or whether it's because people prefer pugging I dunno. But I just wonder what the league would be like if pugs didn't exist. Would people be more dedicated to league matches because that's all they had beyond pubs? Or would half the players still here today be long gone?
Disclaimer: this is not an attack on the pug designers or whatever, I'm not blaming them for the state of the league, I'm just wondering about popular opinion.