Thoughts on Random academies.

Lately I have been seeing tons of random academies just pop up and I get asked to join. What are your thoughts on these places? Me, I am not a fan of them. I would rather join a well established academy (such as this one) then one that just sprung up over night. Forum wise I would rather join when the community is young, but with academies it is different. TBH, these places never survive. They live for about a week then everyone forgets about them, like I do. I cant remember half the random academies I have joined.


Thoughts?

All other academies other than DA suck. There are a few other good ones like DGA.. but DA is way better.

Yeah I tend to agree with you there. Like I said they just have such a small life span. DA is well established and therefor will continue to live on. Small academies also suffer from bad staffing. They get their friends to be admins/mods/etc. and it just fails. They also copy this place a lot.

This isn't really a new thing. pretty sure they pop up and die all the time

Yeah I know the concept and such is old. But lately they have been popping up even more. They all suffer such a tragic fate.

Those sites appear and die each day. It was like that since DA is formed. Only thing is that DA is the first one and only one with original name and others must figure out something new. Instead of figuring it, they copy same things with another not so logical name. Like no matter how you call your dorms they are still dorms and they are ranked by dueling skills lol. Whatever they do is a simple copy of us. We don't say we are original since we tend to copy things from anime but that was our purpose, make online ygo forum more anime/game oriented to have more fun because thats what we want, to have fun and play. So why not have a forum where its actually acting like some kind of RPG as a whole than just plain forum talks.

EJ had that idea and the timing was perfect for it to implement. Ppl loved it and they still love it. We became exactly what we wanted to be, a ygo forum with a bit game fun where we act as being in an academy rather than just plain posting in pojo tcgplayer or whatsoever sites exist with the same purpose, so yea seeing it as that we are unique. Thing that other ppl don't get is that they come here, see how the idea is great and are like "if they can I will do the same".

Its not easy to make a site work good without having anything more to offer like awesome free dueling system DN has. Yet we succeeded to build a nice community. That is what others don't get, it needs time to convince ppl to stay here. Thats why they die after some time especially not being able to compete with us at least. We have a great stuff with great ideas and most of us are here more than 3 years knowing how things are which is not the case with others trying to accomplish the same :/

However DA always wishes them luck

Last edited by Amy Cool on Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:23 pm; edited 1 time in total

hey one of my friends just made a academi for out team rx2 and just starting and we have like 23 members so it like on and off or 50 50

Yeah they all look very similar to DA. Layout, formula, look and everything. They even use the pictures on the forum descriptions.

Lol, you wish them luck so you can war them right?

we just starting

Well good luck. Trust me, from what I have seen it looks hard. As long as you have the determination and will to go through with it you will do well. Most of them die due to lack of interest from the creator. They loose interest and it dies.

here is the stie you can look at it



http://rx2academy.forummotion.com/

Not because of that. Wars started from the fact at the time EJ started this academy, not long after that many others started to make similar sites. All those ppl were the KC community and yea since teams existed and academies started to exist parallel they were like if you are better then lets get it to a duel. Like if your community is more pro then you can win a war against us. That lost its purpose when everyone in KC died except us. I mean some academies still exist but their activity or community is very small compared to ours. All will tell you that they are best and begin their motivational posts like " to stay on top, we must ....". Instead of that when we tell " we are on top" we actually link forumotion top list so we can prove it lol. For wars well, most ppl that war against us are actually also our members so those wars are more fun based than proving something lol. more like tradition that is being kept without any purpose.

We wish them luck just like it sounds. Luck in becoming something that we are today.

Yeah that makes sense. I love war duels, so I see your point!