He knows we don’t have enough sponsors and cash for pot prize, so why complain about it? Who comes onto the scene as a relatively new player and complains about the money? If he doesn’t like it, go tell him to play SC2 or LoL if he’s only in it for the money.
Jedirobb is not an asshole.
He did it out of love for the games and the community.
Old School Gamers UNITE!
Why not just get a real fucking job if you’re in it for the money
People do what they love. To say playing competitively isn’t a real job is really weak. Especially if you can get paid from it…
To actually stay relevant and be good is ALOT of work. The funny thing is alot of people aren’t even qualified to be a “top gamer” nor are they capable.
No it isn’t.
It is a fucking hobby - something that like-minded people do together for fun.
It is a fucking game.
Old School Gamers UNITE!
What sport didn’t start of as a hobby?
Sorry but even professional athletes might have to get a 2nd job in the off season. Wasn’t so long ago that athletes were doing their sports as a side job.
Wolfkrone told haunts his favorite games are SvC Chaos and CFJ, pure poverty, so which one is it?!
Right, for now the fighting game top players are professionals in like other sports nobody particularly cares for or knows about instead of the NBA NFL billion dollar ones [*] but they are still the top level talent whether or not they are paid as much as the mainstream sports.
[*] that still lock out their players, to take just that much more of a % from their salaries, or total profit margins
If he really loves it, why is he complaining about money then? Surely he would do it whatever the case? As I understand it Spooky operates on a loss for instance.
Let the hate towards the top players begin!
You mean IPL wants to work with grassroots tournaments and offer bigger prize pools to more players, so they can spread the wealth more well-rounded to more people in the community?
You mean they obviously dont want to interfere with EVO and care about what the community says? You mean they worked over a year to get the fighting games you want and are slowly putting them in the line-up to appease all the fans and will have qualifiers at grassroots places for their big tournaments?
Oh man, fuck dem gais trying to help the FGC.
Dunno about you, but I remember back when players entered tournaments to prove who was the best, out of sheer love of the game.
They were amatuers only in the truest sense.
Professional gaming is not only a joke, it is an unfunny joke, that insults the spirit of gaming.
Old School Gamers UNITE!
Unfortunately, it’s too expensive to just enter games for the sheer fun anymore. It costs players a lot to travel out to a tournament, sink some investment and return with nothing. Due to the very small market share of competitive gamers in fighting games as well the smaller attraction they bring compared to other competitive games, sponsors are also seeing the expense with very little returns on what they are offering to the market.
When you have more organizations putting their hands in, then you have more support for the sport, regardless of what you may call it. Both IPL and Capcom helping the fighting game scene by introducing the genre to eSports is only a good thing for everyone. This gives the competitive gamers who take this seriously another big event to place, promote their sponsors and actually get some tangible returns. It also helps promote the genre of gaming including popular brands like Street Fighter, Marvel and etc to help pull more fresh faces into the community both as competitors and fans.
Anyone who thinks this is a bad thing is really not looking at the bigger picture. The only way to grow is to expand to other areas of competitive communities and games. eSports will do a great deal for everyone including the fans.
-Famine
P.S
I worked with IPL a year back with Bloodline Champions. They are a great bunch of guys and they are truly putting the gamers first in everything they do.
You’re an idiot. Who in the fucking world who plays videogames would turn down an opportunity to get paid to play videogames? An idiot, that’s who.
I can easily see this as the 1st sign of the end of the FGC, you say that this would help the genre, i think that it will actually push it furthermore to an stagnation, it doesn’t help that with all this e-celebrity crap we are seeing now the FGC is becoming more poisonous to the point that if is not UMVC3 or SSF4AE is not supported at all because you know, stream monsters want that shit (even when they don’t play any game in reallity) and you want to keep the sponsors.
I say fuck this shit.
I suck at fighting games, therefore I hate e-sports. I’m good at fighting games, therefore I like e-sports. The end.
LMAO
This is the scary thing. It keeps getting worse and worse because the sponsored players all* have* to focus on Capcom games and stream watchers and new players followed them because hey, the top players *must *be going to the best games only right?
The funny part is, they will support other games if the community embraces them. And the more games supported means more people will play a greater variety of games. IPL has made it clear they love what Grassroots organizers are doing and they do not want to interfere with them, but work with them. I honestly don’t see the big deal. Jackasses like Jebailey keep posting ridiculous shit, ridiculing them, when I remember him not too long ago him saying he would not have a problem with organizations like IPL supporting Grassroots organizations, with qualifiers and prize pots. Well here’s your fucking chance.
If these grassroots qualifiers are getting money from IPL to help out the organizers like ShinBlanka, I’ll support IPL.
ShinBlanka should start talking with David Ting. He’s very approachable. He’s even responded to my questions and I’m a nobody. lol
Then again, you can’t just look at it “Oh IPL give us money now”. That’s kinda one-sided. It’s got to benefit both sides of the equation. You want to invest in things that will work, and people who believe in progressing the scene.