User blog comment:Mr.gameandfight/Welp MUGEN Archive has become one of the worst mugen sites/@comment-3495717-20190407175718

It's just a means for them to increase their userbase, whether they want to admit it or not. Their official statement appears to be that the event is to reduce the stress on the servers by limiting the amount of users who can download from there, with the more lighthearted excuse being that they want to show that they're so much more than just a warehouse, though it's pretty apparent the majority of people sign up and post in random threads just to rank up and bypass the restriction. As the event increases the total number of registered users, a certain higher-up of that site likes to flaunt these figures in other MUGEN Discords as if it's some kind of competition and all the other sites are dying because they have less registered users, but then of course they'd have less users when registration isn't mandatory to access the main content of the website.

I suppose it helps to know an active user or two on the site who can get the stuff you want to download and rehost it for you, but for everyone else, they either have to wait it out or give in to MA's demands; you're completely out of luck if you had an account there before it was permanently banned for some silly reason without warning, since attempting to re-register with different credentials is ban evasion and thus they'd have a legitimate reason to ban you, even if the original ban reason was because you looked at them funny :P