I'm from the generation of new users from 3 years ago, for me it was Crum Season 63 in Sept 2013.
For me, i enjoy the game, and i try to strategize around the small handful of issues that i think are really sucky in HD. Many who joined when i did (or later) have dropped out of HD out of frustration with one or more of the same four major issues:
These issues are:
1. The 6 player recruiting classes getting 96k versus 32k or so (or 18k vs 6k, etc)
2. Owners having no incentive to challenge conference mates for recruits, and the perceived collusion that this leads to.
3. Poaching in the final cycle.
4. Cheating via scouting at a higher division and feeding information to your lower-division team... and a lack of confidence that honest owners are being protected from rampant cheating... a feeling that things are rigged.
I've mentioned these four things in past threads, and have been shouted down. But I'm telling you, these are the top reasons people have given me for either quitting (over the last 3 years) or not joining in the first place (like my brother, who i think correctly realized that Classic HD has some flaws).
So these are my honest thoughts on what i and others think are the top problems in Classic HD, especially with respect to new owner retention. I fully understand that people have other opinions, including some longtime veterans. In NuHD, these 4 issues will be addressed (well, cheating I'm not sure if you can eliminate that). Maybe not solved completely, but addressed and improved.
I think and hope that if most of us here stay for a couple of seasons once we roll over to NuHD, that we will come around to liking the changes. The Beta Test World was for experimenting, and none of us really tried outright to win divisions or make NT's, we had no stake in the game, and it made for dull seasons. A decently populated Beta World will i think actually be a lot of fun... 120 Div-1 Crum members jockeying and maneuvering during recruiting to me sounds like a cool exercise.
Anyway, that's where i stand.
* puts popcorn in microwave *
8/11/2016 9:57 PM (edited)