Why has Nadeo given up on NESL and North American Players?

[andrewcandoall]

Word from NESL is that Nadeo has not picked up future Go4Shootmania Cup for the North American community. Even though we are small in number we are active players and we deserve tournaments and activities just as much as the Europeans do. I know the game should be capable of growing on its own but, atleast in North America, this is not the case. What does Nadeo intend to do to keep its current North American playerbase and eventually improve upon it. It is said that in Europe there is a tournament event every day. Here we only have CEVO on Mondays and NESL on Thursday's. With one poor decision, you Nadeo, have deprived your loyal customers of half of our tournaments to look forward to. How do you plan on taking care of your North American customers?









Don't get me wrong by the way, I love that Nadeo has made this incredible competitive game for us to play, I'm just very disappointed that they are no longer willing to invest in one of the few competitive tournaments for the North American community. We want to see our community grow. It is drastically smaller than the European community but we play anyway. It feels like we are being punished for something we can't control. We do our best to attract new players. Of the 13 servers I host, 12 of them link to a Teamspeak where they can meet with other players and hopefully stick around. Though it's hard for us to stick around when Nadeo doesn't seem to care about us and takes away the little that we do have.

[djhubertus]

I think, it's not Nadeo but NESL admins.

[andrewcandoall]

The Admins said Nadeo didn't pick it up for more cups.

[PiGmY]

We're sticking a fork in Shootmania.

gg's

[Trackmaniack]

I do hope that's a joke...The NA market for video games has to be the biggest behind Japan, and I *do* know we're the biggest consumers of FPS games...

[andrewcandoall]

I do hope that's a joke...The NA market for video games has to be the biggest behind Japan, and I *do* know we're the biggest consumers of FPS games...

Are you replying to me or a deleted comment. If you are speaking to me what I am saying is shootmania has a very small amount of players in North America that play. Obviously the market is large. Please read carefully next time in the case that you are referring to me.

Basically, in plain terms, I was referring to the small amount of North American's that play Shootmania, not the North American market for FPS games.

Also I hope you understand that the majority of our FPS players in America play CoD, Battlefield, and CS. Twitch/arena based shooters are a niche category within the FPS market

[Trackmaniack]

As is a usual custom, I am replying to the post directly above mine, which says, quote:

We're sticking a fork in Shootmania.

gg's

I don't know who pigmy is, or if they have knowledge of this situation or it's just spectulation, but I am commenting on that, thanks.

I also know that arena shooters are a small market within the larger market of FPS games, but, again, unless someone is willing to correct me on this, as a whole, NorthAm is the largest consumer of FPS games on the planet. And of video games, period, behind Japan, right?