The problem with StreetFighter.ie

Sairus

At @rcade-con this last weekend and old annoyance I've had with SF.ie was highlighted - namely it's title.
I spent most of the weekend trying to plug the site and dredge up some new players. I had a good 20-30 people who were genuinely interested in tournaments in Dublin. Most of those people were primarilly MK9 and Tekken players.
After I'd given my spiel about tournaments and regular gatherings I'd tell them to check out Streetfighter.ie and then the forums from there. Almost immediately you could see their interest disappear when I mentioned Street Fighter. Despite explaining to them that we don't just play SF I'm confident 20 of the ones I talked to will never visit the site, purely based on their dislike of Street Fighter.

I know that when people say they'll visit a site like this a good chunk of them wont do it anyways, but I could definitely see that open dislike of SF was scaring many of these players away. I've noticed that in particular Tekken players have a tendancy to really dislike anything to do with Street Fighter. (The same goes for SF players against Tekken)

So what I'm saying in a long and rambling fashion is that I think we need a new name for the site.
Yes, we primarilly play Street Fighter, but as other games become more and more prominent SF.ie is becoming less and less applicable, and as I saw at @rcade-con, may actually be scaring people away from the site in the first place.

What SF.ie does have going for it is that it's ridiculously easy to remember and tell people.

Something punchy along the lines of NeoEmpire or Shoryuken would be ideal in my opinion (though less so the latter because of its obvious connection to SF).

chopperbyrne

FightingGamesIreland.xx is available, but it's not that catchy.

inferno.ie is available, but unless Inferno changes to a multiple game event, the name will have connections with Street Fighter.

Naphiel

I agree with this. The first time I ever came across StreetFighter.ie (through google when looking for a TE), I was put off because I wasn't really a Street Fighter fan. Even though there was other games being mentioned in the forums I was still under the impression that it was more of a Street Fighter community rather than a fighting game one.

I only saw otherwise when I went to one of the Hype of Two Worlds tournaments.

Placebo

just a quick input, if you are looking for a new domain, please keep it short.
Instead of putting in Ireland in the sentence, lets just go for .ie, will take longer but worth it in the end.
Some variation of ie/ireland is necessary so that it gives a sense of locality.

Also i agree with Ger, FightingGames is too average.
compare with other games
CODIRELAND.ie
CALLOFDUTY.ie

lame

Sairus

Placebo wrote: »

Instead of putting in Ireland in the sentence, lets just go for .ie, will take longer but worth it in the end.
Some variation of ie/ireland is necessary so that it gives a sense of locality.

Also i agree with Ger, FightingGames is too average.

Agreed. I like the .ie tag on the end of SF.ie, and something like IrishFGCom sounds awful and clunky.

As for specifics, I dunno. One of my housemates threw out the name TripleFierce which I liked - which makes no sense when you actually think about it but still sounds very fightery related. :pac:

Sabre0001

Semi SF related - downrightfierce.ie ...Not short but easy to remember. True, there is a .tv and .com already.

Dreddybajs

I'm pullin a Xinkai if the name changes to either of those lads :pac:

Placebo

It needs to be some what iconic, see shoryuken.com [Street fighter related reference but not exactly streetfighter.com] look at the other names out there
iplaywinner.com
see some shirts for inspiration : http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0057/9482/assets/slideshow1.jpg?100523

i'm terrible with names, runs in the family [e.g: my real name !?] so just throwing out ideas

mackg

I know that when people say they'll visit a site like this a good chunk of them wont do it anyways, but I could definitely see that open dislike of SF was scaring many of these players away. I've noticed that in particular Tekken players have a tendancy to really dislike anything to do with Street Fighter. (The same goes for SF players against Tekken)

SFxTekken.ie

aeonfusion

It does make sense to get a domain based around all fighting games. I was trying to think of something that is unique to fighting games and in all of them and well obviously there's jumping but www.jumpfighter.ie isn't exactly catchy or connected to the community :P Tekken is 3d so can't use something like 2dfighters.ie. Combos sure, but anything like 'combo warriors' sounds absolutely vile :P

The only thing i could think of is the quarter circle motion, it's in any fighting game i can think of, it has an obvious connection to fighting games so if people hear it then they'll remember it, in the same way Shoryuken is memorable for fans of Street Fighter. www.QuarterCircle.ie is available, www.QCF.ie isn't though which would've been nice cause it's short, catchy and even more recognizable to fighting game fans than simply 'quarter circle'. I reckon with a name like that it would stick in peoples heads an become synonymous with the irish fighting games community.

chopperbyrne

educatefighttogether.ie

chopperbyrne

QCF.ie wouldn't be too bad.

EDIT: Balls, you said it's not available.

chopperbyrne

round1.ie and roundone.ie are both available.

Sabre0001

quarterup.ie ?

Placebo

FYI = http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_fighting_games

#104 SNK Boss Syndrome

hahahah !

aeonfusion

Think we can sue them and get them to give us the domain on charges of 'crimes against web design'...there isn't a judge in the land who would rule against us.

RoundOne is another good one, it's in all fighting games, it's short, catchy and memorable.

Quazzie

how about yomi.ie?

mackg

GDLK.ie

Dreddybajs

roundone.ie is the best so far imo

WasterEx

I currently own the domain "GamerZone.ie" if ye want it.:cool:

K.O.Kiki

+1 for Round1

A-Trak

online-warriors.ie

Srsly though, I like round1.ie.
roundone.ie sounds like a weight watchers site.

Owwmykneecap

Having numbers in the title would suck. Anytime you have to spell a site out, the world loses hope. remember skoool.ie adverts on the radio?

That said I like onehitcombo.ie /whatever.

Or inferno.ie like i suggested years ago.

The other problem is this should have been done a long time ago, sf.ie has gotten its name out there quite a bit and it would be like starting from scratch on that front.

Either way the site needs a redesign, multiple people posting news etc and the forums need to be hosted there.

As long as the forums are here, sf.ie will remain a site for foreigners to look at and nothing more.

Dreddybajs

Yeah I think Round1.ie is better than having the word, how is that a problem?

You don't have online banking sites being called bankingthreesixfive.ie

edit: We can keep streetfighter.ie as a redirect to the new site so "starting from scratch" won't be any kind of problem.

Owwmykneecap

I posted up the voice actor thing last night, log in now to see because I didn't select news as a category it hadn't gone up. jeebus ****.

Misty Chaos

What about fightingspirit.ie?

That said, I don't mind what name is used as long as its one that works.

Sairus

Something along the lines of RoundOne sounds good, but that's a terribly boring name.
QuarterCircle is probably my favourite of the lot, but it sounds like it's missing something, and QuarterCircleForward is too long.
RoundOneFight, TwoHitCombo, BlockString, BackForwardGay could be some other contenders.

I also quite like CounterHit.ie


One the note of spelling numbers, for something with several digits like Banking365, then numbers make sense. For a single digit I would naturally think of spelling it.
Even in a forum setting, when I say numbers I'll often write things like "nine copies of SF" and "13 copies of SF".

Vyze

wakeupsuper.ie?

Da Bounca

sticksandstones.ie

PPC

How about http://foots.ie ?

Scavenger XIII

PPC wrote: »

How about http://foots.ie ?

That's awesome, but then people wouldn't get it.

Dreddybajs

3hitcombo.fr is already a French FG site so no. Blockstring, counterhit etc. are too hardcore (though the foots.ie one is awesome).

Owwmykneecap

Inferno is easy to brand.

It doesn't have to be fighting game related, we make it a fighting game brand, not the other way round.

Sairus

Owwmykneecap wrote: »

Inferno is easy to brand.

It doesn't have to be fighting game related, we make it a fighting game brand, not the other way round.

AllAboutSairus.ie it is then.

But yes, I do agree with this. I'm not gone on Inferno specifically though.

aeonfusion

Sairus wrote: »

Something along the lines of RoundOne sounds good, but that's a terribly boring name.
QuarterCircle is probably my favourite of the lot, but it sounds like it's missing something, and QuarterCircleForward is too long.

Yea that's pretty much my feelings on QuarterCircle, using QuarterCircleBack just makes me go 'why not forward...' for some reason and as you said, forward is too long, shame QCF is gone

Have to agree about 'Round1' 'RoundOne' though, numbers/letters cause confusion and confusion causes less visits imo.

Perhaps a mod should edit the title of the thread to something like "New website for the Irish fighting game community." to get people who play MK, Tekken, MVC and BB to read the thread, get their input on it too.

ButtonCheck is probably another one that could be used, the domain is free and it happens in all fighting games

Naphiel

Letting Foots.ie and Toast.ie go to waste is a sin.

The Scientician

Naphiel wrote: »

Letting Foots.ie and Toast.ie go to waste is a sin.

Just don't suggest goats.ie

StupidLikeAFox

FinishHim.ie is available (and impossible to say without doing the voice)

Owwmykneecap

sounds like a cumshot site.

K.O.Kiki

>Use Round1.ie
>Have StreetFighter.ie and RoundOne.ie redirect
>???
>Profit!!

Placebo

foots.ie

sounds like a foot therapist
or a foot cream website

how about channelsix.ie

or channel[nummber].ie

UberPrinny_Baal

I like Roundone and Quartercircle

Roundonefight/Round1fight could be good too. (also nicely abbreviates to R1F.ie)

I definitely understand peoples' bias against the website though.

Assuming the scene had worked out differently, and I had just encountered you guys for the first time at a recent con, if someone had told me:

"Yeah we have Street Fighter tournaments all the time, just come to our website www.tekken.ie"

I'd have been like "Pffft, screw that"

FutureGuy

A major +1 for "Round1.ie"

It's easy to remember, it's catchy and it's a phrase that most fighting game fans will be familiar with.

ayjayirl

GetHype.ie.

I think this would be the most flexible site name to cater for multiple games and its hype;).

Its available too.

Sagat06

Love it ayjayirl

Sairus

Yeah, I think AyJay has it there.

chopperbyrne

If we do rebrand the site I agree that we should now host our own forums and have general fighting game news on the front page as well as our own announcements.

stev0knev022

This thread annoys me.

Sairus

chopperbyrne wrote: »

If we do rebrand the site I agree that we should now host our own forums and have general fighting game news on the front page as well as our own announcements.

I would also be for this, particularly the forums.

stev0knev022 wrote: »

This thread annoys me.

Why?

PPC

I think external forums are a waste of resources tbh.
Its been tried in the past for other games and people still keep coming back to boards and the other forums die.
The benefits of having a little extra freedom of speech are negated by regular security updates and anti spam measurements and regular maintenance.
Plus your looking at a good chunk of money to buy a decent forum system, for example the software NeoEmpire runs on is $285, a lot of the free solutions get exploited pretty quickly.
Unless theres a really convincing argument for having our own forums I don't see any need to move away from boards.ie

J0hnick

PPC wrote: »

I don't see any need to move away from boards.ie

Agreed, most Irish people who are even semi computer literate already have a boards account, so no need to sign up to a new board.