Yeah I already read your post but I also wanted to hear someone who was actually there at evo2k5 just to be sure.
But I still think their biggest sin is that ultimate gamer show.
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This is probably neither here nor there, but weren’t there a pair of MLG guys joining this forum sometime last year, talking about making a youtube documentary about their ‘Rise to the top of Street Fighter’ or something?
I remember they bought TE Sticks and kept saying ‘See you at Evo’ and then gave up after a month or two, breaking their sticks and throwing them in the trash. Memory is a bit hazy, but I remember something along those lines.
As for MLG itself, I’ve heard nothing but bad things so far, choosing games by popularity not quality/suitability and just the general image they put forth. Having said that, I don’t follow them much at all and they likely cleaned up their act a lot in the past few years.
i cant see how this is a problem. mlg now is not mlg from 2k5, its the same people, running it, but with huge sponsors behind them they can’t afford to do something like what they did at evo. its another tournament, with a good payout. they will most likely sell passes to enter and if its similar to halo the top 16 players would be given pro status and maybe a sure (free) spot in the next event.
That was comedy gold.
One of those douches was always wearing sunglasses, even indoors. Too bad he deleted those movies of youtube 
I remember laughing my ass off while watching them.
I remember that. I was all “Oh wow, an indepth look at people going into the game and becoming tournament level over time. Sounds like a documentary worth watching.”
Then I looked at the youtube channel they posted, and nothing was there.
I’d like to see proof of this supposed stick breaking though.
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I’m happy with what we got now.
As long as major tournaments like EVO and Seasons Beatings get made into bigger events every year,coupled with the magic of live streaming, then I can see fighting games reaching the status of FPS and MMORPG games eventually, without the need for outside help.
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That’s the thing: there’s no reason to let it get to the point where the community would have to keep the MLG in line. There’s no happy outcome from having anything to do with them – they’re going to pull player-abusive shit as a matter of course. That’s what the entire org is built around, trying to trap players rather than entering a mutually beneficial relationship. That’s their business model. Having anything to do with them at all is just inviting a headache tantamount to jumping into a piranha-filled river: you know what they’re going to do, so why are you jumping in?
The only alternative is to have settings where the MLG isn’t the defining authority. We have those. So the MLGs entire existence, if not something to be crushed out of gaming entirely with extreme prejudice, is completely irrelevant to the FG scene. They demand too much and offer nothing important.
We don’t.
People are just trying to bank on this like it’ll become less of a hobby for fun and more of a cock eyed career choice.
Wheres the petition to keep Street Fighter or other REAL fighting games out of MLG forever? Oh wait, Tekken is in it? Damn, I guess they got one already.
Most of the people on that show that called themselves “professional gamers” made me laugh. SCIV finals and the Halo finals were laughable. And VF5, that made me cringe. 
Anybody know what happened to that guy who won? “Applesauc3” or something? I never heard anything else about him, did he fall off the face of the earth or something?
I remember swoozie trying to commentate/hype up the SF4 finals for Devo 09. Shit was horrible. Never put that man on a mic for anything ever again.
As a community we really don’t need this. At all. We are doing fine. We are growing rapidly as it is.
The rate of people claiming to be the next J Wong, and Daigo rising.
The people coming to their senses after realizing this is too much of a difficult goal, staying the same. :< I was one of these.
I’m not looking forward to SSFIV if this gets passed by MLG, just screams more halo kids trying to pick up a shoto.
He had no idea what he was talking about, that’s why. 
But yes, it was bad. Ugh.
So…
MLG from 2005 isn’t the same as MLG today? Even though it’s made up of the same people, includes the same games, and still has the same shitty practices. Well hold the phone, everyone. We got these folks wrong.
Someone mentioned it before, they aren’t the same. MLG can’t afford to pull something similar(even tho i don’t know what that is but I’m assuming something bad that reflects bad onto the company) and expect to be unaffected by their sponsers. They’d like to not lose money I’m assuming.
I personally don’t care about this whole thing however so take this how you want.
I guess you don’t see the fun of putting BK egos in their place like I do. Eh. SFIV is still just a pretty good selling game, not an amazing selling one, I don’t think complaining about more players, who, while most of them will have hilariously overinflated opinions of themselves, they’ll still be less liable to be straight mashers than the general populace, is really the way to go exactly.
I think MLG has more to lose if say, Justin Wong goes, wins 2 tournaments, then they hand him a ridiculous contract that he refuses and buggers off along with everyone else that anyone, either beforehand or from the first two events, knows of. Back in 2005 both MLG and SRK were so much less well known the risk was fractional from their standpoint if you insist on looking at it that way.
Is it bad that I actually love MLG?