We are the Council. We have been elected to improve our community and promote the game of Vs. (and we consider it an honor to do so!). Like any leadership body, we will not be able to please everyone with every decision. That fact keeps us honest, but it doesn’t change our intent.

With that said, we as the Council want to apologize for the confusion that has ensued the past several weeks. We accept responsibility that our first announcement was not as well thought out as we had believed. It obviously left too many questions unanswered on how we envisioned things would work, how we would handle certain situations regarding new material, and how those things played into our goals for the future of Vs.

As for the second announcement, we overreacted. We tried to get something together that would please everyone as much as possible, but in the process of trying to appease as much of the community as possible, we instead caused a good amount of chaos. We plan on correcting that mistake this time around. That being said, the second announcement is officially being retracted. And the first announcement is being modified.This is a rather lengthy announcement, so we ask you to please read it all the way through before responding.

First off, everyon READ MORE »

As mentioned in the last update, it’s 2011 now. That means we need a 2011 Council! Currently the Council consists of Scott Thompson, Kevin Johnson, Aaron Mead, Cliff Parmeter, and Sergio Acevedo. Some of us are eager to serve again; but for some of us, life has gotten in the way and it’s time to make way for new blood!

And even though a few of us have become addicted to serving the community and would love to stay on, we will all step down and rely on being nominated -and voted in- again. This is an important step in “The Council Process” because, quite honestly, it makes Council Members work hard to keep their chairs; which really benefits the community!

How will this process work?

1) Nominate someone you think is capable of putting in the time to keep this community strong. Ask any former Council Member and I think they’ll all agree that it is definitely a time commitment. If you think someone will start off strong, then flake out in a couple of months, please don’t nominate them. We strongly recommend you choose from members who are very active already.

2) The nominee needs to accept the nomination.  We ask that those that accept a nomination list two things they hope to focus on during their tenure on the Council.

3) After a week or two of nominations, we’ll set up a poll to pick our 5 Council Members from the nominations.

Some current Council Members would like to start off the nomination process to get the ball rolling…

scottkthompson would like to start by suggesting HomerJ and carlosthedwarf. Both of these former council members have been invaluable to the current council. They’ve often stepped in to help when current council members needed it.  Also, they’re both on the site all the time; so we know they can put in the hours

KardKrazy would like to nominate his fellow council members Onyxweapon and scottkthompson.

Onyxweapon would like to nominate KardKrazy and Banstylejbo for their excellent work on their fan sets; MWS; the Vs. System Database; and more!

And now it’s your turn. Who do you want to serve your community?

Voice your opinion here:

http://s11.zetaboards.com/vssystem/topic/7373706/1/?x=10

Overload, Dr. Light, Fiddler, Valeria Von Doom and Mimic. What do they all have in common? They have all been banned. That’s right folks, Mimic has been banned! This abusive five-in-one utilizer was brought to the attention of The Council quite a while ago, and after much deliberation and investigation he has finally been banned. Which one? The foul-mouthed, game-stealing, MWS annoyance. The guy would watch tournament threads on our forums and wait for people to say that they would host a match; then he would hop onto MWS under the name of that person, and attempt to play the match.  He would often use vulgar language, and get very upset when he was losing (which is how we figured out he was 2-3 years old - give or take).  He became such a pain, that people were using code words to set up matches.  Needless to say it provided a negative play environment for new and old players alike, so he had to be stopped.  Luckily, because one of our own is now hosting the MWS server, it became possible to track IP addresses that accessed the server.  Because of this, and other detective work (that will remain secret in case he rears his head again), we can now keep him from the MWS server. READ MORE »

Yes, I’m aware that the acronym for Singles-Awareness Day is SAD, but maybe we are all a little sad this Valentine’s Day.  After all, it’s almost exactly one year since UDE dumped us.  They were once the love of our lives, but have since ripped out our hearts and pureed them to make some kind of disgusting parody of a milkshake.

In honor of our tragic anniversary, I propose we make one last ‘drunk dial’ to UDE before tearing them out of our little black books entirely.  Here’s the idea…

Let’s all go to the UDE “Ideas” page found here:

http://www.upperdeck.com/marketing/ideas.aspx

Then let’s all post something like this:

My name is ___________ and I’ve been a loyal customer of yours for years. I grew up on your sports cards, then I got pulled into your fantastic TCG called Vs. System. A year ago, UDE discontiued support for Vs. System because, while profitable, it simply wasn’t producing as expected.

I’ve got a proposal for you. Fantasty Flight games uses what they call a “Living Card Game” model. They produce “Chapter Packs”. Chapter packs are small releases that contain set cards; similar to large starter decks. They’re much cheaper to design and produce, but everyone that plays can simply buy enough of them to get an entire playset.

Fantasy Flight Games has admitted that this model has been much more profitable for them than the CCG/TCG model.

Since there’s still an audience for Vs. System, you’re almost guarenteed profitability. At the very least, if you decide you aren’t interested in producing ‘a ‘Living Card Game’, please consider selling the Vs. System game engine to an interested party as a means to help with the Konami settlement.

Either approach means you’ll be making money, and Vs. Players will get to keep playing. Everybody wins!

Thanks for your time!

Now, obviously you all can put your own personal twist on this message, but the gist should be the same: “Save our game by reprinting it as an LCG!”

Will this work? Probably not. Do we stand to lose anything by trying? Absolutely not!

Happy Valentines Day from the Vssystem.org Players Council!