^Casual players often get scared by those things you mentioned, if people want to take things to ‘professional’ levels they should be made aware of the effort that goes into it and must be willing to do so.
Demotivating BS if you want to get somewhere, better be prepared to do something for it.
It’s comparable with professional athletes… Think Buakaw Por Pramuk ( K1-max ) could kick down that banana tree before he kicked the sandbag 1.000.000 times ?
You could ask them these questions:
Do you want to get better ?
Do you want to play&win tournaments?
Do you want to beat me ?
Do you want to be the best ?
It all comes down to personal motivation to get good and love for the game in the end. IMO
Yes teaching people who have no interest in fighting games is an up hill battle. I recently have been trying to teach my step son how to play Streetfighter. He is great at games like battle front and the matrix games but trying to teach SF is next to impossible. Teaching him how to do a simple FB took 15 minutes. and he still only gets it out 1 in 10 tries. Some people just cannot learn fighting games.
I fully agree with you, guys. Only if you’re willing to get good at something you’ll get better. Now I know that playing Street Fighter in order to get good enough to compete at a professional level isn’t everyone’s taste, that’s OK, but I think that’s what makes fighting games so great: learning new moves, tactics, combos and stuff like that. However, playing SF competitively actually gives this game a whole new perspective.
And I’ve already given up on trying to teach people Street Fighter. Like you two have already said: It all depends on your will.