Now max can make a new vid:
Shoryuken.com’s Max dood hate REACTION!!! (Stupid OMG Face in Here)
I doubt a guy with 400,000 subs is going to bother reacting to 50 guys on SRK, some of whom get it, some of whom don’t and never will.
It’d literally be like Max lifting his shoe and analyzing the piece of dog shit he stepped in.
Poop Scooped.
Holy fuck @ParryAll you literally wrote an essay. Wish I had that kind of passion for writing when I was in High School.
Can you stop posting for a while? Thanks.
And I remember maybe 2-3 years ago that Max appeared in the 3S forum when everyone (including me) was ripping on him playing 3S online and being terrible. He defended himself by saying he’s a casual and it’s all for entertainment purposes. At that point you can’t really take out the pitchforks.
But his fans are fucking retarded.
Well I write for a living, so I still have that kind of passion with writing every day and will never let it go.
That said I don’t like the post so it’s poop scooped.
Alex I’ve played you online in 3S. You really have no room whatsoever to criticize someone else’s play.
What name were you hiding under?
Maximilian is responsible for bringing a lot of people into fighting games, regardless of how his content is perceived. Complaining about not enjoying his content is unwarranted because his audience is for the casual, don’t know much about fighting games, but like watching people play and react to them. It’s like that with literally every stream of entertainment; the serious material that’s hard to digest don’t get as many clicks as the entry level, easy to digest and basic content that doesn’t require much prior knowledge. If any of his followers, even as small as 1% decide to go deeper into fighting games as a result of him, start going to tournaments and gain the experience, then he’s good for the community. So from the 440,000 subscribers he has, that means a 4,400 new serious players in the community as a whole, many of whom who can get really good and offer more competition. At the end of the day, If more people are talking about, thinking about and playing fighting games, he’s fine with me.
He helps the fgc more than he “hurts” it so he’s okay in my book.
Seriously, there’s people that got into fighting games because of him, cut him some slack.
in this thread 95% of people said “I don’t like his content, I’m not the target audience, but it’s fine that he does it, doesn’t bother me”
in this thread we act like 95% of people said “OMG Max is so annoying I hate him, catering to scrubs, wow I hate him so much”
OMG Max is so annoying I hate him, catering to scrubs, wow I hate him so much
Well at least he didn’t brag about the skill level or anything of sorts, I think it’s important to remain “human” despite being popular, while many other internet celebrities get hit with the Hollywood Syndrome and start acting like complete dicks because of dat YouTube money
Max has definitely claimed in one of his early videos that he was good at 3s back in the day, claiming to get just outside top 8 finishes at FFA. I asked the FFA heads about this, they told me it was not true, that he has never at any point in his career been a competent 3s player or finished anywhere near top 8 at any of their tournaments. I’m inclined to believe them, since I’ve played him several times on XBL and he doesn’t play like a guy who was ever strong at the game. Usually you can tell, even if you win, “this guy probably knew what he was doing in 2007”, but I don’t get that vibe from him at all. I just get the sense that he enjoys the game and wants to do whatever fun thing pops into his head.
Which is fine! It’s kind of silly that he made such a claim, but it’s fine if he wants to play the game and entertain 70000 people per video. He’s happy and they’re happy. It doesn’t affect me really, except that whenever he jumps on 3SOE there’s a huge spike in playerbase, which is nice. Basically his fanbase follows him from game to game hoping to get a chance to play him, so whenever he switches to the game you play, you’ll suddenly have like 500 more people to play than you usually would that time of night. From that perspective, it’s only a positive.
I’ll say the misinformation is slightly annoying, and I’ve only come into contact with it when I’ve played him then watched the stream archive out of curiosity. Like I absolutely shit on him the last game we played, and he told his stream viewers “that’s just how broken Chun is” when if he was being honest or an advocate for the game at all, he would’ve said “that guy plays the game at a much higher level than I do, it’s crazy how high the skill ceiling in this game can go.” Now a bunch more people are out there on the internet with the idea “wow Chun is so cheap and OP OMG” and their evidence is from a match where Max made horrible decisions and killed himself on me. I think if you’re going to put yourself out there as an advocate for the game (which I think for 3s, he clearly does) then you need to make sure you don’t damage it with misinformation.
Eskimo Bob, do you still have the replay of you beating Max? You should upload that.
No. It wasn’t an interesting match. He died quickly in both rounds and it was clear he didn’t know how to play Dud vs Chun.
It isn’t a big deal. It’s just, I don’t think you should even mention the matchup or a character being strong if you don’t know anything about that match. It’s pointless to say “Chun is so strong” when you have zero matchup knowledge and play vs the character completely wrong. Max doesn’t have an obligation to anyone, but I think since he is one of the most public and popular figures who presents 3s content in the world, he shouldn’t give people the wrong impression. Because indirectly, and likely without meaning it, he damages what is already a small community by telling everyone who is watching his stream “I lost because that’s just what Chun does to people.” That gives everyone the wrong idea of what went down. Yes Chun is strong, but he lost because he knew nothing about the matchup and attacked poorly.
I suspect most of the people who watch his stream were not going to convert to being tourney 3s players in 2016 anyway, and probably none of them remember our match at all (it was only of special interest to me because I was in it). So even though I’ve written now multiple paragraphs about the subject, I should make clear I think it’s a very very minor sin. Probably no one will care or remember. It’s more of a “best practices” kind of thing. It’s a best practice to not give out bad or incomplete information if you are a major content provider for a game.
Reminds me of this time I played a dude on Fightcade who said he started playing because of Max. Dude picked Ken, I think, and I’m just doing basic shit with Alex. Didn’t say anything to him, didn’t use a single stomp, nadda. Didn’t even Powerbomb him. But I was using st.HP on his wake-up and he just kept getting hit. Then he ragequit and called me cheap and Alex is top tier.
Another Max fan told me (after I beat him 3-0) that Alex is a counter pick to Akuma.
I beat one of the guys that was on the US SBO team at Evo so I guess that makes me better than Max.
Nah, I think even if Max was honest by saying he lost because of mistakes and lack of matchup knowledge, his fans would just say he was lying so he could look more humble and that players that beat him are “cheapass OP cheating scrubs”. Fanboys can be really dumb af sometimes.
I’m not a fan of 99% fighting game “personalities” (Zhi, Gootecks i’m looking at you) TBH.
@IglooBob to be fair, Chun is kinda broken in 3S. Single-hit confirm into Super for like 50% damage just because she poked you once is dumb simple to do, and that damage output puts her higher in tiers than other more technical characters