This may be partially true, but I guarantee you that most of the people actually have fun playing the games. You really shouldn’t take a few players where you see this apply and use it to apply to the vast majority or slap it onto applying to the “fgc.” Obviously, there are quality fighters that don’t get their chance to shine because of the bandwagon effect but don’t act like the people don’t also enjoy the popular games. I understand that you don’t like new games, which is exemplified in practically every post you make, but that doesn’t mean everyone else shares the same feelings as you. The rest of this post makes sense though.
Lol what are we supposed to be paying attention to besides the chick?
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Negative Zero’s video with Fanatiq, Marn, Mike Ross, Champ, Flash Metroid, Floe and someone else talking about shit with a chick coming in randomly.
He is. I mean he was hosting a show and people know who he is when you mention his name. If you showed someone who casually follows Fighting game streams his face they would probably know who he is. Apart from the stick throwing people have a fairly positive image of him. Thats what being marketable is. Hes by far more marketable than Chris G right now even though Chris G is a much better player.
If you have a company and you want to get your product in front of as many people as possible then yes, someone with a show or a stream or a youtube channel or twitter account with a ton of subscribers/follwers is far more useful to you than someone who just plays extremely well but has no presence outside of tournaments. Again I’m not saying that everyone has to be marketable or should even want to be marketable, but if you are a fighting game players trying to be more marketable then on that path youtube, twitter and twitch TV are just as important if not more important than how you do in tournaments.
I could go on for hours about marketing so I’ll stop now before this turns into a real rant.
Ask the same question to Seth Killian, Filthy Rich, and Combofiend. Being marketable and winning tournaments are two different things. Winning tournaments won’t get you a job at Capcom, maybe a testing job, but being marketable could.
Btw just so its clear, I am defending the relevance of good marketing as someone with a degree in marketing and in no way endorsing the stupidity of certain antics of certain players, good marketing is good marketing and dumb asses are dumb asses.
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this actually. srk is fucking me up
Its the vid about his obvious philosophy. he really thinks fgs are the way to go for money. He shouldn’t have his words influence all of us becuase this vid says it all.
yeah that shit always rubs me wrong. whats more sycophantic than campaigning for some dude you don’t even know to get paid?
Fanatiq is like a teeter totter. Sometimes I can agree with him sometimes I can’t. But he has made more cash money MMing than tournaments and it seems to have supported him well.
Regional seeding is fine. Reseeding the tournament with priority by sponsor when 75%+ of the participants are eliminated is complete and utter bullshit. Also Ryan Hart was mad over an overseas, already qualified teammate showing up to a qualifier in his region.
But it still doesn’t justify changing tournament brackets. If the company wants screen time for sponsored players they should host their own events then.
If you want companies to support your events you have to support its players and not make them waste money investing in players if they are matched up in pools. Speaking strictly money here.
Can you read?
Ok my bad must’ve skimmed over some details. Honestly, I really don’t see why this concerns people who don’t want to/or care to be sponsored.
I never said it did, in fact in my first post the first thing I said was before anything else was that seeding by sponsor is nonsense.
This is basically what I was saying in my first post. I don’t agree with anything Fanatiq said there, but he has the right to play for whatever motivation he wants to and its no one elses business.
In that video Fchamp is almost taking the same role as Chibi, except marketablilty is switched with money. And Fanatiq keeps saying we all play for money. Apparently for whatever crazy reason everyone seems to be convinced that everyone else is playing with the exact same reason that they are.
This guy seems really dumb. I don’t get the thing about playing video games competitively and having a big ego.
Look into “the rap game” and “athletes” as having skills that are a cut above the laymans. Thats really all it is.
When money is involved, ego comes right after it.
Exactly, Let niggas play for what they want to play.
I never get what people expect of celebrities (small-time internet or otherwise). To always agree with them? It’s like one second Fanatiq is the most hilarious guy when he’s going in on Joker getting blown up by J. Wong, then the next he’s being vilified for defending Revelations or this latest thing for suggesting seeding by sponsor. People are just people. How many of your coworkers or acquaintances do you always agree with? FGC top players are just dudes like anyone else, that happen to be really good at video games. You look at the dumb stuff they say and do on streams and twitter and it’s clear that they’re just as likely to say dumb stuff or complain about little things as any other dude at a casual gaming meetup. Yet people still put so much stock in what they say.
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Shit, this guy. lol last vid tho, i don’t wanna make fun of him.
@Ragnarok Idk if you realize or not but these people represent us as a scene. Why do you think people got so upset at Aris for saying the sexism is part of the community? It was simply bad publicity for the FGC. So we put so much stock into what we consider “top players” because they represent us. They are in the limelight. Not you and not me. Personally I care about the communities image and what a good image can do for the scene.
Now if you don’t give a fuck about the communities image, ok that’s fine, but some of us do.