@Surenio
You don’t even understand my argument or what I meant. Taking me out of context to make yourself have an argument against me isn’t helping you either.
What I meant, is that a lot of these players travel around the country which costs a lot of money from them and their sponsor, and drains them. It’s really hard to travel so much and go to so many tournaments for so little payouts. Everyone gets into competitive gaming because they love it as a hobby, that’s their own free will. But who are you to say that their enjoyment can’t be a career? That’s what I’m trying to say.
I don’t think there’s something wrong with making it a career, I’ve never stated so if you look at my post before. Actually I take that back, I think trying to make a career out of fgs is short sighted and idealistic but that’s besides the point. I don’t have a problem with higher payout tournaments. I just have a problem with money being the single motivating factor behind certain players and the assumption that more money = better play/more players when that’s simply not true.
What you meant is fine, how you worded it before(which says something completely different) I don’t agree with.
A person who’d rather not see fighting game players homeless because they were so sure they could live off fighting games before it was a reality.
Again, professional sports were and in some sports/countries still are a side job. No one quit whatever they were doing and focused solely on sports before it was enough to be your only job.
We’re getting there, though right now it’s only for those at the very top. What needs to happen now is to make it so that anyone who can consistently get into top 32 at majors can start seeing some money and anyone who consistently makes top 8 can do this for a living.
Why do you fear this, and why the hell are you reading the article from Kotaku instead of the post from the god damn Riot themselves on their forum and the reports. Go look at the thread, every player in high elo agrees with the ban anyway. He was a douchebag and didn’t deserve to be a top player, he was rude to everyone and it’s accepted. There’s a difference between trash talking and degrading your own teammates everytime they make a play, getting reported multiple times to tone it down and continuing it. That has nothing to do with eSports. He was a straight up dickhead.
It’s heavy handed intervention from the top. This is something that we’ve never had to deal with in the “FGC,” it’s not part of our culture. I’d go into this but UltraDavid has already written alot about this.
The point is, there are some notable cultural differences between traditional eSports communities and the FGC. The fear now then is that their culture is going to be forced on us.
That article is so off-based for this situation, you literally sound ridiculous. You realize this punishment is from the DEVELOPER OF THE GAME? Right? Do you? This has nothing to do with eSports, he just happened to be a pro-player who was also a dickhead in-game and in solo que. People get banned every day. At the end of the day. everyone here is Capcom’s bitch (assuming you play Capcom’s game) and if they decide to ban you for being a dickhead, then so fucking be it. Don’t be a god damn dickhead.
Because, unlike LOL, a theoretical “player ban” by Capcom can just be ignored by TOs. That said, it’s not just that specific situation. It’s more about a clash of cultures and forcing their culture on us.
I mean, are you really okay with the community turning into something where FChamp stops saying “nigga” every ten words? Where Fanatiq can’t pop off in someone’s face after he’s TODed them to death? Where Rockefeller can’t make dirty jokes during commentary?
Goddamn, so much hostility, and people say I post like an asshole.
Also, lol@people being banned for being “unprofessional”.
Also, hope marvel gets replaced by SG, lets get that anime in there.
I’m assuming what D3v is trying to get across is “as of right now if Capcom said “blah blah can’t attend this tournament”, what can they really do, if we get more “esports”(lol), Capcom/Ipl/whothefuckever says “we don’t want this guy here”, it might actually be enforced, which is kind of scary”.
Assuming, though.
The more you deal with money, the more “professional” things are going to get, that’s just a fact, people watching their mouths, getting “redcards”(FUCKINGLOL) and shit doesn’t seem worth it to me, but eh, different strokes.
I would hate to go to a “sanctioned” tourney and see that side games can’t be run because it’s against some kind of standard or not licensed or blah.
EDIT:FUCKING HAHAHAHAHAHA at “didn’t deserve to be a top player”.
Partly that, partly at having a community that’s fine with being “cleaned up” or “'censored.”
EDIT: That said, I like what I’m hearing about treating FGs in IPL like MMA/Boxing. Not for the gimmicks (which SBO has already done). But because these sports are the ones that encourage cultures that seem to be less “cleaned up” (for lack of a better term) than most other professional sports.
I’m happy for the folks that will benefit from this announcement but it’s another nail in the coffin for me.
And for the record making a living off of playing fighting games is god damn moronic. Hate the hell out of me for it, and I won’t stop anyone pursuing it but you can quote me in a year or two when no one will give a flying fuck about Street Fighter anything as vehemently as they are now.
If people are willing to play the same games for 10 years, I can see it happening, granted, I don’t want my professions and my hobbies to mix, but that’s me.
Its not just about you being able to make more hoopshots than others. Its that there is an audience that like seeing hoopshots and pay money to watch people who are good at hoopshots make those hoopshots.