Anyway moving on... The main people on this site as I see it are those that inhabit the Editing section. Thats whats always set this site apart from any other PES fansite. The main people as some see it are a vocal minority, the people that use the chatbox and that post in a lot of topics usually with a smart answer (which can be funny at times) and a smiley. They're not the "main" people. All you have to do is look at the numbers of people viewing which sections we have and you'll see who the main people that keep E-W alive are.
Moving on, thats why I for one dont mind the thought of FIFA being removed from the site. People will backlash quickly and claim it will ruin E-W etc... but I would be surprised if we lost maybe 100 (being generous at that too) members because of it. It's the deluded grandeur of the "main" people that are once again the vocal minority here. Now I'm not naming names and I get on well with most people here, but some people need to realise they aren't E-W and that without them the site wont cease to exist. It's a realisation that some people are yet to comprehend unfortunately.
With regards to FIFA, I dont think it's the cause of all our problems here, I think a spoilt generation is the cause. Anyone that can remember booting up Emlyn Hughes Soccer on the C64 (what a game!
) can actually appreciate things these days with a cooler head and a more level outlook. The main arguments you find these days are people complaining about what EA or Konami "owe" them. Thats bollox, they dont owe you anything. I'm not exactly happy with the progress PES has made in recent years just as much as the next person, but to turn around and claim Konami/EA owe me anything is absolute and complete :censor:. Thats like giving out about Daz coming in the same sized box it did 5 years ago. I've been buying it for five years, why the feck dont they give it to me in a bigger box these days?! Sure washing machines may have gotten bigger and more powerful and you can put more into them, but they have no olbigation to make their boxes bigger because of that.:-pp
Anyway digresion aside, I think my main point is that we used to have a more mature and (not exactly for the better) more closed community here. Unfortunately PES has been a victim of its own success in this regard and we now have a much broader spectrum of gamer coming here. Along with that, FIFA has seen vast improvements over the last couple of years and PES has stagnated somewhat. Sure the shift is there in a general sense of things, what we need to decide is whether E-W follows the new trend of this or if we stick to the roots of the site and possibly shift our focus back to what made this site in the first place. Thats the main reason for the ongoing debate and it has been bouncing around for a while and not only with FIFA in mind either.
Apologies for the disjointed nature of the post, trying to post coherently while in work is tough. haha.
