Still fucking stupid athletes get paid more than teachers.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t particularly care for eSports, just pointing out that regular sports are equally stupid.
Here in Australia, McDonalds store managers get paid more than teachers.
agreed for the most part
e-sports banned starcraft 2 player stephano for 1 month, without salary, for saying a PRIVATE JOKE to a friend. He said he had sex with a 14 years old, in a private message to his friend while playing online.
Stephano himself was not streaming, but unfortunately, his friend was streaming, and a viewer screenshoted the private message and sent it to the media. Stephano had no salary, but on top of that, he was forbidden to even ATTEND tourneys for that month, even if he were to pay the travel expenses himself. So he missed out on Dreamhack Bucharest, with 10 000$ awarded to the winner, even though he was the favorite to win it.
Imagine if the E-SPORTS POLICE was in charge of a REAL SPORT like boxing, they would have banned boxing legend Mike Tyson so many times and viewers would have missed out on his epic fights.
E-sports police think the little comment by Stephano was a big deal? Here are some quotes from Mike Tyson, one of the best and most entertaining boxers EVER.
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Bottom line, FGC has always been a meritocracy, where trash talking or harmless jokes/comments don’t get in the way of competition. No censorship, a raw meritocracy, I hope it stays that way.
I agree, MMA culture is very laid back. Even the UFC president Dana White uses F-Bombs liberally lol
Follow War Machine on twitter, he’s an MMA fighter. Here’s one of his quotes, I didn’t dig very deep cuz he drops these kinds of tweets everyday lol
“OMG I just came SO close to shitting my pants. LMAO! The last 3 mins driving home I musta ran 5 stop signs, every bump brought doom closer.”
Say NO to censorship!!!
i dont see why shit like this is lauded, its pretty disgusting tbh
being good at a video game doesnt entitle you to be a huge fucking assclown, like many(most) top players are. and the fact that a sea of faceless stream monsters encourage this type of behaviour is beyond retarded
So basically you guys think the FGC is being censored. Wow, sometimes I wonder how many idiots are on this forum. Don’t be a jackass, act like how you want but don’t act like you have 0 common sense. IFC Yipes stays hype without being overly vulgar, like cmon let’s be real. You’re mad because people can’t say nigga? Well they probably shouldn’t be saying that shit on stream anyway, with their sponsor watching. Let’s be real…
No one is saying do not not say any cuss words. Just don’t be excessive anyway -_-. It’s like talking to little kids here. You’re grown ass men…like cmon.
no one encourages that shit, it’s just how those people are
we just prefer no one hides anything, even if they’re moronic shitheads
besides which, we’re playing video games here, there’s some form of childhood joy you get out of it regardless of your age, being professional about it sorta destroys that
Childhood joy = Video game…what is this 90s propaganda?
If there aren’t real threats being made (which people have legitimately been banned for) then I don’t see the problem.
I’m not cool with censoring things to the point of forcing people to act drastically different from how they are (a.k.a fake/professionalism). One of the things I love about this community is that people can more or less be themselves while playing what they enjoy. 'Shit comes natural and any backlash will just come from people who will call you out if you really crossed the line. People who get distracted by that have learned to use headsets (works fine for FGs… I don’t know about stuff like LoL). That doesn’t need an authority figure to come step in and act all stuck-up over something you said.
But yeah… sell your soul for money, etc. Buy Bic shaving razors every 20 mins. Whatever… do your thing. The NBA didn’t kill street ball so I’m not too worried that the FGC I know and love won’t still be around somewhere.
lol
nah just saying what i feel
I love you guys. Always finding something to be pessimistic about when it pertains to pro gaming/competitive gaming/people who play games for money/esports. You guys are like the jealous girlfriend, scared to get into a new relationship because things might not be the same. So hilarious.
“Oh please, don’t take away my ability to call people nigga and cuss hysterically, it wont be the same”
“Oh please, sell your soul for money you players who are good at the game…pew pew”
These guys already take all your grassroots money anyway, so get real.
I’m already not allowed to say nigga, but that’s because I’m white-
wait, shit!
uh dude, it’s like a handful of folks just expressing their opinion
ease up there, you’ve been going awol for most of this thread
Its funny seeing something like this because people will try not to say my name out loud. Its not the bad N guys don’t be scared.
On Topic: Didn’t the IPL managers in one of these articles say that FGs are easy its just that it hasnt been exposed and the play field will be leveled. They think they can take down the grassroot players? I am extremely amused
All cool i agree in some parts like if I boot up some Smash Bros my childhood memories come up but when i boot up some Skullgirls nah its all 100% Manhood right there
Most of the opinions here are baseless and stupid. That’s just my opinion, of course.
@Shininegro what the heck are you talking about. Almost every top FGC player is pretty much sponsored by an eSports organization…lol
Are you on IPL’s payroll?
When I say childhood joy I’m just referring to having fun. I don’t like having to actually state reasons for why I need to have fun, it’s just something I enjoy. I mean who doesn’t mind having fun? Fighting games are simply part of that. I have as much fun playing Smash as I do Skullgirls. They’re fun to play against other people. I won’t discredit folks who want to play for any other reason but if having fun isn’t at least one of them, well I question what you’re really getting out of it.
No, I’m just not easily influenced by people who are misinformed on the situation. I like to think that I actually do research and shit like that, and not just being blindness and going out to tell these guys to fuck off. IPL isn’t MLG. Most people in this thread are seemingly forgetting that. I don’t think it’ll be perfect, and I think the best way for IPL to get involved is to just help the grassroots scene by flying out international players, getting the stream on their site, helping out there. Hiring people who host these grassroots tournaments to host their tournaments and people who are known to commentate their tournaments. I think that’s how it SHOULD be done, because at the end of the day, those are the people who know what to do, in the best way possible.
I forgot this is SRK and I’m forced to hate everything that is competitive gaming/pro gaming/eSports.
All this hot air and when the dust clears all you’re gonna see is the same thing you saw 20 years ago, people playing games.
After glancing these three pages AxLegitxLegend posts seems the more logical ones, but can due without the excessive “dickheads” present
People seem ready to to find ANY excuse why IPL won’t work for fighters either with the ethics of getting paid or some common sense censorship (Honestly don’t want to hear commentators saying “nigga” and “Faggot” every 10 seconds to build “hype” because its deemed ok by stream monsters ). Fearing that the current status quo fgc “culture” will change? There must be some misconception that Change= Doom and gloom. They gonna take over and shadow the fgc? Those FB posts say otherwise showing that they are at least committed to cooperate with major fgc events.
All I’m saying is don’t be so quick and launch a Banzai Ambush when this is barely getting on its feet. Lets be clearheaded about this and lets see how things play out 6-8 months from now