What will you be playing after Pox closes?

Video games are not chess. They don't last forever.

 

What are you playing that took you a YEAR to win a game?
Geez...

 

I might be remembering it incorrectly, but i'm pretty sure my first win in crawl was somewhere between 9 and 12 months after i started playing. Then again I started playing back when the game had unreasonable OOD spawns, and I played fairly fast so I run through hundreds of characters before getting anywhere meaningful.

 

The rise of digital games and resurgence of quality boardgames certainly doesn't help the popularity of chess.

 

It must have something to do with availability of new games. In many ways, this is a heyday of video games, especially with the rise of indie development scene. We are at an age where almost anyone can learn to code and it is easy to distribute quality products. Games for the most part keep getting better and better and I wonder how long they can keep up their, so far rising, popularity.

This also means that people can and will move on relatively fast to new, fresh projects, or just games which suit them better as they mature. Personally, I find it fascinating.

 

It's a nice opportunity to make friends with people with similar interests, that's for sure!

Or... erm... enemies.

 

Chess.

Though it has been a couple years since I was really active. If anyone wants to join I used to play via chess.com but I'm thinking of switching over to Lichess more frequently.

 

I guess I'll play MTG Arena. Quite expensive though, just like MTGO and Paper magic. =/

 

Playing Eternal Card Game (that's a full title in case you look it up on steam) atm. Enjoying it quite a lot. Got a referral code in case it catches anyone else's attention (gives freebies).

 

When Pox Nora closes I'll play in...POX NORA 2!

 

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Since 2004 is not very representative for a several thousand year old game. My dad and some friends really loved chess, and skiing and could skii for hours in to the mountains(a special place it took hours to get there but once there it was shielded for winds between the horseshoe shaped mountain) just to play casual chess with likeminded.

Anyways as dad told me back then, chess was not for everyone, and it didn`t try to be either, and that was the history of chess. But in the subtle background chess breads these great humans like Fischer, Vishy, Kasparov, Karpov, Nakamura, Karjakin, Caruana, Casablanca, etc... And they perform at a superhuman level.

So to me i regard chess these days as more popular than ever before, at least in fans(if one can call us that) view figures. The chess coverage now are absolute great, and i can`t wait for Carlsen - Caruana in Nov.

Well this was not a bash just some thoughts, i am not sure what those statistics are? Number of players? Number of happy players? Number of fans? Numbers of registred active players?

There is the saying, you got lies, damn lies and statistics.

Also the WoW graph, it says a 100 around 2005, is that like a 100%, or a 100 Million, or just a 100 something?

Also can that be right? Was WoW THAT popular just a year after release but went totaly downhill the next 7? Kinda depends i guess on what those 100 means. If i remember PR correctly the game just grew bigger for years, eventualy had tens of millions of players++, wich means i doubt the "100" in statistic is number of players? In 2005 already....

 

I been trying out DayZ game lately, and it is quite a improvement since i played the mod 5-6 years ago.

I also play alittle chess on chess.com app against computer.

Also BF1 but the way modern games are to big for theyre own good with one superexpansion(for a cost) after another, and now game development is more or less left for dead because of the new upcoming BF5.

I don`t know, titles seem to last shorter and shorter, yet being ever greater than before, visualy and content.