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Forces Of Freedom Tournament At The National Airsoft Festival 2017

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The airsoft community is one base that the video gaming industry can always rely on, especially for shooter games. The biggest video game titles apart from Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda have always been shooter games such as Call of Duty and Battlefield, and in these game franchises, they can count on many airsoft players help improve their sales.

But sometimes though, the love is a not two-way street. We rarely see cooperation between the game publishers and the airsoft community when in fact they can have something in common. We do not see Call of Duty or Battlefield marketers making an effort to reach out to the airsoft community to do joint promotions or show their appreciation when this community take a lot of time, effort and money to show up in gear seen in video game characters, helping further promote the game.

Then there are those video game companies that make a conscious effort to do so. One is CAPCOM and their continued cooperation with Tokyo Marui for their Resident Evil/Biohazard series. This is seen in the airsoft guns made by Tokyo Marui as based the game and this recently went to new heights with the introduction of the Thor’s Hammer in the upcoming Resident Evil 7 “Not A Hero” DLC which is based on the SGR-12 AES, an airsoft shotgun that is totally designed an airsoft company and not based on a real world firearm design.

Another company is Bravo Company Ltd. (formerly known as Koyoki Ltd.), the company behind the video game “Forces of Freedom” are making  a conscious effort an involving airsoft players in the improvement of their video game made for mobile devices. We first encountered them at the National Airsoft Festival 2016 where they invited airsoft players to test the video game.

Now with over 5 million installs for their Early Access edition, they go back once again to the National Airsoft Festival 2017 to have a mini eSports for “Forces of Freedom”. Not as glamourous as the eSports of Call of Duty or DOTA where big money awaits the winner, but it is something for airsoft players to notice, a video game company that takes time to involved the airsoft community in their video games.

The Forces of Freedom tournament took place on the first day of the National Airsoft Festival 2017 last month. Just like the National Airsoft Festival, the “Forces of Freedom” had the main factions: Bravo, Delta, and The Others battle it. As written in my AAR last week, Delta players took the prize and were given special missions to gather more points for their group during the actual days of skirmishes.

We had ring side seats to this event, so to speak. Thus, we have the full video coverage of the event though we’ll mainly show you the meaty parts of this event. Not exactly as high tech as watching an eSports game in Twitch but I hope this will do for you.

Watch how the tournament unfolded and if you want to play the Forces of Freedom on your mobile, you can download it right now for early access from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.

Now, have a nice weekend playing the video game on your smartphone of tablet.

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