peterthepan3 wrote:I'm not sure what there would be to bitch about...
"Omg you're leeching my emblems"
...is literally the only thing I could come up with.

You could say the same before, it was all about honor and how cool everyone involved was and turned out to be a pissing contest where you would accuse each other of hiding behind the guards. Doesnt take much to imagine people accusing each other of afking and leeching.
The reason to group up are still there, you know them, you already get increased rewards, everything you ask for is already there, so maybe its time for you to realize, after all this years, the real problem with it.
Peter, it may not be that fun for most people, all those folks you poached for your group and leaved you, why did they do so? Did they all really tell you, peter, i would play this more if they gave us 15 emblems when we win and 5 when we lose or did they tell you, peter, i am not having fun.
Let me put in other way, why there was a 500 man tournament in Japan for 3rd strike not even 15 days ago, there is one every year and its a game from 1999 if the prizepool was laughable? Is the reward or the fun what makes people play more?
And mind you, i just told Penril that them giving the offset for most classes in sc is a reason why scs are not populated, in games like this i truly believe filling bars and making numbers bigger hooks people but while i am at it, i also think that they need to be having fun while doing so and 6vs6 is for most, too rigid for that.
There is plenty of games that give you the team based competitive rush, the people who want that, are playing those games, not a private server that tries to revive a dead game.
So if you really want people playing it, try to make 6vs6 more fun instead of asking for more rewards every 2 months, the rewards are not the reason people are not bothering with them.