Well JW is actually getting payed to play as he has a official sponsor isnt he? I wonder if any of this goes against his contract or some other agreement that he has.
MIKE ROSS is the new Chuck Norris!!!
but with Hundered Hand Slap rather than a simple roundhouse!
I charged about $7 an hour over on progamertraining.com. Got a customer or two, though I felt bad about it afterwards. I learned this game for free, after all.
If they want to charge a lot of money for lessons that’s their perogative I suppose.
I wonder if they have a lesson plan all spelled out on paper? Also, is anyone here friends with them? What are they like outside of tournaments, personality-wise?
i chilled with marn at MWC for like 4 hours
he was pretty laid back and chill, but i have some friends in common with him, including his roommate.
so idk if he was chill because of that or not
I don’t know about you, but I’ll be playing SFXXVII with my grandkids. They also say video games help older people maintain cognitive function, so I’ll also be holding SFXXVII tourneys at the retirement home.
I’m 30 and I already have my adult neighbors impressed with my SF skills, eager to learn about this game they used to play when they were kids. If anything, we live in an increasingly tolerant video game world. I have 40 year olds that I play CoD with, and one of few things my my college buddies do when we are all in town is play video games while talking about our kids and complaining about our wives.
FWIW, if you are trying to talk up your raise while beating your boss in bowling or poker or pool, don’t worry, you should already know the answer.
People are just saying it’s expensive because they can’t use their mom’s credit card to pay for it.
Are you saying that your physical form has nothing to do with playing with an arcade stick? Go check out the dozens of started threads on “how do I do xxx on a stick,” or “how do I get used to” and look at the responses. 99% of them are essentially “practice.” Great. Now, since they don’t know what the hell they are doing, they’re going to keep on practicing the wrong thing. I know I was taught to play on a stick. Most folks will PIF, but not everyone gets a tourney level dude to look at their form, their technique, what they’re doing right, wrong, etc.
If you haven’t noticed, the community IS getting larger. I’m not saying that every home will have a SF player, or that one day high school kids will be trying out for the Varsity Fighting Video Game team, but this Renaissance is real, and you need to recognize it. Besides, if only ten people sign up for this service, would there be a loss somehow? Competitive gaming has become a living for a small community of folks, and like poker, or 9-ball, that community is bound to get larger with the swell of casual fans.
With that said, I still think online coaching is not the way to go. But the very idea of getting pro knowledge of a recreational activity for a fee is neither new, nor should be discouraged.
What I want to know is do they actually “teach” a person to play the game or do they just beat on a person for an hour and then collect?
I’d so pay gootecks $40 to ask how to throw my stick like a pro.
When I helped structure CS lessons from top players the formula was pretty simple.
There were three scenarios, some times they overlapped a bit:
(1) The person provided replays and the person who was going to instruct them watched the replay ahead of time and drew up a lesson plan from that
(2) The person had specific questions
(3) The person was clueless so the instructor would go on auto pilot with basic activities and advice about the game. They would play through a few situations with them or ask what position they played and go over different ways to play that position and communicate with their team.
On top of that the instructor often provided some “base” replays of them just dry running through certain things alone on a server. Practicing flashbangs, smokes, and recoil control were common activities in the replays. The idea behind this was that a lot of players don’t quite understand what they can practice by themselves. It also made them feel like they got their money worth because they learned how a top player did things and they could keep practicing it long after the lesson.
All of this translates over to fighting games pretty easily. I’ve personally found video games lesson to be close to useless, but I am very critical of myself and the events that went on in the game even when I win. I’m also not afraid to just flat out ask people who are more experienced or successful about specific things. Most people would learn much quicker by partaking in them. They also can help a lot if you are picking up a game you know nothing about but have played other games in a different genre competitively in the past. It will save you a lot of time. I’ve also noticed a lot of people just flat out come up with the wrong reasons for losing or don’t comprehend what they are lacking. Again, lessons can help.
“some people learn it on the streets. some people learn it in the schools. But me and KG? we’re fucking born with it homes.”
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Like hell it’s a reasonable investment. For the price they’re charging, it would be 1 to 2 hours of work just to cover that cost for 1 hour of their time (which the person paying would also like to sacrifice).
Keep in mind, that a $40/hr job translates to an annual salary that is approximately 78K a year.
Just go to a shittily run tourney and tell them your last name starts with “wo” and you’ll get to fight him plenty. I did and fought him in all the games I was in. He is nice enough to give you tips before and after play if you act clueless.
Is this for real
This is all relative. $35 is not a lot of money. It probably isn’t making anyone go broke. I don’t think you’re understanding what it means when people say there is no way they’re paying $35 for an hour worth of games.
I don’t know if I’m stuck in an old school mentality or not but I’ve learned, played with the best, made great friends and became a pretty good player just by playing fighting games. When you consider that the best of the best never paid anyone to teach them anything and just sat down and played with whoever wanted to play you’d consider $35 for an hour worth of games to be completely ridiculous.
But then again I would never consider paying anyone anything to “teach” me anything in a fighting game.
It’s just a gimmick and of course there will be the new players who don’t know any better and will realize they made a mistake -$35 later. I don’t think you should “prop” people for scamming a couple bucks from some ppl who don’t know what it means to play fighting games.
Google and Gamefaqs provide guides for free.
oh, look! it’s…
…this joke…
…again.
…we get it, dude
There are much better things to be spending $35 on.
Like your local Hooker.
Listen to the commentary on the recording @ ECT2.
Amen brotha I am 39 will be 40 this year and I don’t see quitting in the foreseeable future. I won’t be a tourney goer that is for you young pups but I will still be playing.
god you guys are cheap. 40$ is nothing. i can’t think of any type of business that charges by the hour who charges less then that.
yall must be the same people that complain about spending 15$ tournament fee saying its too much.
and gootecks never threw his stick. it was a rumor made up by haters.