INTERVIEW: THE SECRET GROWTH OF FIFA

by Han
published by Rinie Wednesday May 13 2009

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The Malaysian FIFA community seems to be growing year by year. Therefore, we have conducted an interview with the top 2 clans in Malaysia to ask about their opinions, views and insight about this development.


W|nDs representative: Loonatic
MyFES representative: Warrior


Q1. How does your clan justify growth in the Malaysian Fifa community?


WINDS: Our clan had been doing well in the FIFA scene since 2003 (where I was still not in the clan yet), and the major changes is when in 2005, Nigel personally recruited 8-10 new member and 3 of them ended up as the top 4 in the following WCG. Starting from the year 2005, there are more and more tournaments in the scene and having seeing only W|nDs winning those tournaments, I think that is what makes MYFES comes into the scene with the objective to stop W|nDs. MYFES did a very good job by giving us a hard time and that is where it motivates other FIFA players to form a clan. Our clan also had been very friendly to other clans/FIFA players and this is also one of the reason the community can grow so fast.


MyFES: For my clan personally, MyFeS was established in the year 2006 and since then till today, we have seen a very fast/major growth in the FIFA community. During 2006, W|nDs was the only competitive clan that time as far as we know, then MyFeS came into the community to give them a run of their money. Today, we have more clans in the community like Tornado,[DRG] and few more clans. Furthermore, the number of participants for each FIFA tourney has increased as well. I guess that showed how big the FIFA community now in Malaysia is.

Q2. How do you think the community has grown throughout the years?

MyFES: Great! i think my comment above answer you this question as well

WINDS: The community has grown very well throughout the years. From only one FIFA clan in Malaysia, now we have like 3 to 4 FIFA clan. And the most grown clan, MYFES had been giving us tough time in every FIFA competition. Even the FIFA league also improved from only organizing in a forum to organizing in a proper website. Although we still have not gotten any medal in WCG @ World Finals, but I think it is just the matter of time where we can prove something there. We came close in the year 2005.

Q3.What do you think can be done to improve and increase the numbers of the community?

WINDS: To improve the numbers of the community, I think more BIG tournaments should be held regularly. Instead of the players keep aiming for CELGAMES, WCG and WGT, there should be other big tournament to be held. Also the period between Novembers to the next year's May should have some tournaments to keep all the FIFA community active.

MyFES: Personally I feel getting those newbie’s into a clan can help them stay and grow or in other words play competitively in the gaming industry. Tournaments for the newbies can be use as well as a method to give them more confident in competing with those pro players

Q4.Does your clan prefer FIFA 09 or FIFA Online 2?

MyFES: We have not tried FIFA Online 2 before but we heard this version of fifa is going to be very big this year! Who knows we might end up giving a try in FIFA Online2. For now, we are more into PC version as well as PS3 version of FIFA.

WINDS: I personally prefer FIFA09, but my clan plays both FIFA 09 and FIFA Online 2. We have big and talented team members to be active in both games.

There you have it! This insights from both of the big clans in Malaysia is very hard to get and very valuable. Hope that it will inspire more clans and other gaming communities to bring up your own as well. We would like to thank both W|nDS and MyFES for their generous support.