Marlowe
𝓤𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮
- Mar 12, 2012
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I am not sure when the trend developed. I think it began with Logger and it presumably had something to do with his notoriously slow Internet speed and his flair for the dramatic. But we have all been there. We all know the agony of waiting a half 'n' hour for the simmer/or whoever to post the final few lines of commentary in a close game. RU_ has more recently taken delaying posting of the game to new, painfully dizzying height, almost transforming the banal act into an art style.
But how horrible is this experience, really? I personally think the longer the games are drawn out, the more engaging and entertaining the threads have the potential to become as people have the chance to react to new information as it comes across live instead of being robots trained to search for scores. The games themselves are the only tangible result in this league, yet their treated almost like an after-thought. The gameday experience could be improves, it could be something that we savour, instead of having scores spat out so dispassionately over a twenty-minute period late on a random Sunday.
I think games should be, at least, two hours long. That's how long they should take to be posted. Pump some excitement back into the day. But that's me. I enjoy longer games. What about you?
The short and sweet of it all;
Should games have a mandatory, set length? Or should they be at the discretion of the player responsible for posting them?
How long should posting of the game take from the introduction of the line-ups to the final match-up stats none of us originally understood as rookies? Longer games or not?
But how horrible is this experience, really? I personally think the longer the games are drawn out, the more engaging and entertaining the threads have the potential to become as people have the chance to react to new information as it comes across live instead of being robots trained to search for scores. The games themselves are the only tangible result in this league, yet their treated almost like an after-thought. The gameday experience could be improves, it could be something that we savour, instead of having scores spat out so dispassionately over a twenty-minute period late on a random Sunday.
I think games should be, at least, two hours long. That's how long they should take to be posted. Pump some excitement back into the day. But that's me. I enjoy longer games. What about you?
The short and sweet of it all;
Should games have a mandatory, set length? Or should they be at the discretion of the player responsible for posting them?
How long should posting of the game take from the introduction of the line-ups to the final match-up stats none of us originally understood as rookies? Longer games or not?
