Gho$tRiD3r$ F.C. Interview

goalunited LEGENDS - Manager Interviews

 Interview with Max from Gho$tRiD3r$ F.C.

How did you discover the game?

I discovered Goalunited in 2006, it's the longest running game I've ever played, it's the game I've loved and hated the most.

At that time it existed only in germany but then in February 2007 many other leagues came out, the first goalunited was very different, there were no cards, there were no paid upgrades that gave advantages, the only thing you could buy was the premium. The game was a success, within a few years it reached over 250,000 users, but it had a big flaw: who was good won, and who was not so good hardly won something.

Given the discontent of the many losers, a more simplified version of the game was created, so the old became Goalunited Classic and the new is what we know now as Goalunited Legends which is pratically a more simplified and frenetic version with in-game purchases that allowed to have small advantages.

This led to a slow emptying of the Goalunited Classic in favor of the Legends, closing in 2014.

I closed my career in the Goalunited Classic with 15 league titles and 12 national cups.

Which real team do you support?

I sympathize with Juventus but I don't follow football so much, for sure I follow the national team and I cheer for the GhostRid3rs and if I had to choose between a League Champion for Juventus or one for Ghostrid3rs for sure I would choose GhostRid3rs.

Game feature you would introduce?

I would like if the substitutions were introduced (at least between the first and second half), a larger trophy cabinet because now we have many trophy to show, the apotheosis would be being able to really watch a graphic simulation of the match and not just a textual simulation.

Game feature you would get rid of?

Almost all the cards and almost all the bonus structures that distort the game and that have nothing in common with football. This is a soccer game but we have cards to resurrect the dead, to make them live forever rejuvenating them from 1 to 3 years, to change their character, 8.0 players already at 20, haunted houses and icy houses and amazing structures that magically improve the performance on the field and in training and all this for what? to make the game easier and easier and to shorten the differences between skilled players and "not so good players but with fullfilled pockets to squeeze"

One time we were a dozen around the world to have a team 110 strenght, now with all these spells and magics even my dog can do it, an can manages to win a championship because with all these magics the competence counts less and less.

General thoughts on the game and how long you see yourselves playing the game?

I promised myself to quit once my players get older but given all the new magic cards, my players have a way to live forever now, maybe I could quit winning an International Master.

Proudest Moment so far in your Goal United career?

Apart from the successes on the goalunited classic, moments of pride I have had a lot on the legends as well. And the thing I am most proud of is that I did it without spending any real money, I have never spent any money on this game, I gave them a couple of euros a couple of times as a contribution, but I did it all without spending any money.

I went up to the 1.1 league twenty seasons ago for the first time, and have never been relegated since then, I was the first in Italy to win three consecutive league titles, and then beaten my own record a few seasons later by winning four in a row.

But despite the many trophies won, the one I am most proud of is the Elite Gold trophy, a world championship organized by goalunited among the 20 strongest teams in the world every season end, an event that unfortunately no longer exists as it was not profitable, to the goalunited staff they don't care about the winners, but the losers to squeeze their wallets like the current ones, where those who spend the most became the first in the standing of the spenders and think they are special without realizing that it is the ranking of plucked chickens.

Do you have any targets for the future?

I think to play season by season now, I don't think this game can last long with those numbers, but I hope i'm wrong.

Most Disappointing Moment? 

my most disappointing moments are in the International Masters, I reached the final three times, twice in the gold 110, once in the silver 110, and three times I was not able to take the cup to home.

If you had to offer one piece of advice to a new player starting today, what would it be?

I would tell him that he must absolutely play it, if what he is looking for is a game of magical cards and fantastic structures and enchanted castles, a Quidditch managerial where little Harry is allowed every magic. Paying.

At the moment a new player have no chance. Not soon... not without passing through seasons and seasons of frustrations (it can really need years...) and not without spending a lot of money.

 Biggest Influences during your time playing Goal United?

My friend Usciacammuscia, because he teached me the way to earn one million stars without spending a single cent.

If you could say something to the owners/developers of this game, what would it be?

With your rush to squeeze money you have certainly achieved the goal of delete the gap between a good player and a weak (but paying) player, but you have forgotten that you created an unbridgeable gap between an old player and a new player who has too much to buy and learn to catch up with the others, decreeing the slow death of the game because those who quit are many more people than those who begin.

As I said at the beginning, before all this squeezing money we were 250,000 users.

We are now 8,000, I think probably some leagues will be closed soon.

Greed has ruined the finest managerial ever.