Hey all,
You know what’s annoying? When you develop a competition website that is easy to use and exactly what the community has been asking for, just to watch them continue using forums, free web hosts and hard to use scripts.
I built a competition site called OCWars. As I built it using feedback from the big clans in the community it’s very easy to use compared to other competition sites. There are two or three that use just forums with no automation. Forums aren’t built to organise matches, keep track of scores, etc.
The closest thing to a professional site is ConsoleGaming and that is built using vBulletin at it’s base then they’ve just added a few pages on. Everyone complains about how it’s hard to organise matches, sign up, etc with CG.
I’ve tried posting it in forums (once a week for a month) and passed the word around with clans I knew. I had 8 clans interested but none of them get their members to sign up, or claim they’re not very active even thought they’re playing in CG.
Oh well, suppose I can always sell the script 😛 The only reason I could really see for people not using the site is because the user system isn’t integrated with the forums so if they want to post on the forums they need to sign up there too.