This is hardly sensationalism, and we are not victims. Articles about such incidents at events are not meant to libel an entire subset of the video game community for a quick grab at readership. They call out this behavior because it should not happen. If you think we should all be excused because it happened outside of the building where the event is held, wake up and smell the correlation.

Except the problem is that sites like Kotaku report only on the negative things and the multitude of positive things that the community does is straight up ignored. We've done things like raised money for a couple of guys who's houses burned down, helped someone who almost lost an eye due to an accident, help folks with disabilities travel to EVO, etc. but most of those don't even get a mention on their front page.

I think media cherry picking dramatic stuff is and will always, sadly be, a fact - not only in this case. that is just media being media, and kotaku being kotaku and so on.

Also, i am more interested in a more "tidy", sensible scene for us in the community itself, rather then for any exterior publicity matters,
this is a bit losely the same as how i find it in the Arch Linux community, we are also small as far as linux communities go, and having a good enviroment just makes for a better overall feeling when partaking in what we love - rather then being worried about how we are seen from the very outside.

Then again, the more players the more sensible it would look for sega to continue, or even improve, support and development for the game and series : )

I'll just leave these right here.

http://kotaku.com/father-honors-sons-short-life-with-a-fighting-game-tou-1343070518

http://kotaku.com/surprise-helpers-lend-a-hand-to-get-gamers-to-this-week-731027002

Perhaps this article will better illustrate my point:
http://www.rogerebert.com/balder-an...ogame-culture-thats-sexist-its-culture-period

There are a lot of things that make the fighting game community a really unique and strange thing. There aren't too many places where such a diverse group of people are able to come together and build respect like we do in these games. Other games have it too, I just don't know as much about it. It's truly fascinating and worthy of study (I might do that study).