Who are these people and why should I care?

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That’s the question non-FGC members ask when they happen upon a situation in which they are watching a tournament stream. If you can answer those questions for them they will continue watching and gaining interest, which is exactly what the scene needs. People with a casual, passing interest in video games are the ones who will decide how big the tournaments, prizes and publicity will get. The technical aspects of the games aren’t nearly as interesting to them as the people playing have the potential to be.

The drama and back stories in the FGC are its greatest untapped resource.

I don’t know anything about marketing or media production, but I do know that everyone finds drama compelling, regardless of the backdrop. Once the dramatic tension starts building its difficult for people to leave it unresolved. When its just FreshFaceJoe versus SwagNutz with the commentators going on about the technical aspects of their character selections, people who don’t play that game won’t care, at all. If FreshFaceJoe, a single father from Smallville, Iowa has been training 20 hours a week and saving the tips from his second job as pizza delivery driver to be able to travel to the tournament is taking on SwagNutz, a young, cocky, flashy tournament pro from New York City who always shows up with a different beautiful woman and recently got sponsored by Hatchet Body Spray, people are going to want to see who wins, regardless of the level of play.

If the players stories and personalities don’t start to become the focus, this year could be the peak for interest in competitive fighting games. A 20 - 30 second clip like they do on televised poker tornaments is all it would take find out “Who the hell are these people and why should I care?”.

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SHUT THE FUCK UP
and take a walk scrub

@SNAAAAKE probably busy right now evading the IRS. I have handled it

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OK, I will. Sorry to disturb you, sir.

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Who the fuck are you…and why should I care?

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Apparently I posted this in the wrong forum. :smiley:

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http://i.imgur.com/5tCjged.gif

…again.

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who the hell are you and why should I care

you don’t even have an avatar and post here.

what is your contribution longevity BEFORE spouting an over-the-top opinion

even with whatever this is, nobody getting that esports money, 300% definitely not :the “stream” viewing people who are “AAHHHHHHHHHH REAL MONSTERS” holding their eyeballs with their hands while doing the yelling at the Tv on their computer.

it looks like you spent a lot of time on that

conclusion you don’t know yet.

nobody’s getting any esports money

stream monsters do not do positive things - and are otherwise faceless stalkers.

Even in the nobody cares about this gdam, fighting games players “scene.”

Read thru.

You don’t care. "That’s what I expected"
Back to the stream lobby chat for ya.

[details=Spoiler]Or worse, being another Floe only on stream. New player, 1st time he ever gets to be on stream? Sorry he’s a nobody. Money changed hands. Floe is on stream. “Floe face” is on chat, spammed for his match and of course well after. Stream monster interests don’t align with anything, and it will never be correct to support whatever they claim to want and change their minds 2 seconds from now and then and forgot what they even wanted.

They don’t know what they want. They just, like most people want to be a part of something, but strangely without participating themselves. Ever.
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In conclusion:

oh?

shut up and practice your combos

  • gonna get a 3300 word response about all it says is 1 thing: you dont even play?

lose to the first guy without even signing up! Pot monster + DQ Monster… sounds lucrative. You’re just gonna give it away to the next streamer girl who shows cleavage anyway. Boy this scene has really sold out with the industry leaders and who controls how to get that small amount of money!

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That was too quick with no edits. Expanding upon some things

stream monsters do not do positive things - and are otherwise faceless stalkers.

they will take every little tidbit they can (look up pics of your sister/family on facebook to share arround because they seen you play a videogame) and pass judgment as page 1 headline news and never do the newspaper correction

and because its faceless, it is very racially motivated: “See I was right(already had some big problems with people of race/creed) about THAT (color) guy” esports player transgressions with underage girls? Not given the same tabloid kotaku news.

/ i dont support noel brown’s man heaugh ratchetness either BTW if you wanna take that opposite and not agreeing with your kotaku waifu.

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Your idea - which would take time which they do–do in big events. With subsequent breaks to even fit them in, and not in 3,000 man tournaments.

You are asking for something of a documentary following a player’s life. When players and commentators alike will have dayjobs, this not being their fulltime job.

SF25th series even in 2012, finals had booklets to every spectator, detailing a player’s history, backstory, their favorite games, quick Q&A player profiles. Why you might care and root more for this guy besides that you understand the game, or just like his play, it doesn’t have to be beyond that, right? He’s a regular guy you can go meet at these events.

It sounds like those only want this player vs that player tthat the smash kids who will only watch, want to watch OR ELSE put them on a pedestal, and not by their own opinion, but by whoever seeded it into the me-too, repeat that opinion to be a part of it-latest news in the scene.

/meaning of the floe backstory thing, forgot to add, but that was pretty much directly implied with no new blood, regardless of his playing ability. He’s in that bracket? Stream time chosen fairly and distributed equally because he’s a full paid entree player?

lets not introduce more politics to that.

Those would be things you are never going to hear about unless directly at event and involved. For the show on justin.tv stream, you are seeing names you have heard before, maybe not why they got seeded highly, but everyone does want to know, whwere is Daigo, why isn’t he in top 8? WHERES DAIGO, DAIGO MY WAIFU I BUY NOW

and these faceless, never going to show up people, why cater to them if they show their hand with those lashbacks, with major assumptions as in 1 guy = everybody.

Not seeing what would be gained by seeking their approval and enjoyment.

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no edit, don’t expect this to have any replies, especially from OP

here’s another post

http://www.capcom-unity.com/haunts/blog/2012/11/28/get-to-know-the-sf25th-tournament-finalists---player-profiles-part-one

It was shown online to everybody, even if nobody knew about it, by just watching the stream.

In newer ones, one of the Capcom Cup event finals.
That every player from japan with the big head of hair, asian man anime afro head nod up video to introduce each player was terrible! Go back to asking what does Tokido think, what is his personal opinion of his chances to win the game

or get him to drop: “We are really just waiting for a new game from Capcom (enough SF4 has been played-SFxTekken was already released, implying outright of course like everyone he’s saying nobody cared about that game)”

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I thought this thread was going to be about new posters making stupid threads :sad:.

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Who bitch this is.

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Well, one of them just made this thread, so I guess technically it is.

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You in da wrong pocket, homie…

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If you want to be recognized, show up to your scene and start winning casuals and head out to big tourneys. Nobody cares about john doe A and john doe b, remember that respect is normally earned and not given. There’s not going to be background video for every single player in existence

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I heard fighting game tourneys were breeding grounds for homosexuality and were originally instituted to further the furry agenda.

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Tight pants and waifu stick art is part of the gay agenda. I know, because the Jehovahs told me it’s true.

:tup:

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SonicFox for President!

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I wish to inquire about the ownership of this female dog.

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Lots of people have trouble understanding HAX, New members and old members alike. I will attempt to translate what he said to you.

Translation - Go fuck yourself douchtard.