Y'know what I hate, 'pro' players on 1v1 or free-for-all games like toribash that come into the server that you're messing round with friends on, completely mess you and your friends the fuck up and leave. Also, when you beat them they just ragequit, accusing you of hacks
Most proleet gamers are assholes.
all you've done here is asserted that competitive gaming is becoming an industry much like sports
and your "i have a hobby if you dont like it fuck you" argument falls apart because playing a game regularly counts as hobby regardless of whether or not it's competitive
[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;24153651]Many of you if not most of you despise the concepts of pro/noob and actually scene itself, even through competitive gaming is almost a sub industry for gaming, it's worldwide, it even gets showcased on TV (through not massively) for events such as MLG, the events are worldwide but rarely people know about them.
For consoles - their is a massive influx and increase of LAN events for example games include; Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare 2, FIFA 10 etc.
Electronic Console League - [URL]http://ecl.eu/[/URL] - United Kingdom - Total Prize Fund [I]£25000[/I]
The European Games Event - [URL]http://theege.com/[/URL] - Amsterdam - Total Prize Fund [I]€10000[/I]
Dream Hack Summer (DH) - [URL]http://www.dreamhack.se/splash/index.html[/URL] - Sweden - TBA
Opel Area LAN - TBA - [I]€2000
[/I]The amount of organizations behind this are massive, if you want a full list, visit here
[URL]http://www.decerto.net/showthread.php?9945-List-Of-Organisations[/URL]
The media and footage that gets produced from competitive games is also massive, for example-
TEK9 Stevvy - 9Lives HD
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTAs3HP_VI[/media]
Sorry if I have a hobby and you feel the need to oppose it.[/QUOTE]
You have failed to state one point about why competitive gaming is good in your very own thread. I'd like it if you responded back and gave us the reasons instead of advertising organizations and explaining to us that gaming is becoming an industry.
Also please try to brush up on your grammar and spelling. It's not really helping your point and gives the impression and image of you being a young teenager who forgot what playing video games was really all about.
I'd also like to note that seeing people play video games competitively is just hilarious, and yet somewhat disappointing and sad. I'd kid myself if I once assumed we all played games to just have fun, not to be taken as something seriously.
Hahahaha "competitive gameRS" AHHAHAHH PROFESSIONAL GAMERs
Most compfags are all about ~SNIPRE RIFFLES AND QUCIEKSCOPES~ and make really dumb recordings, have a talented editor make a video while the person who scopes in while shooting gets all the credit because of his ~LEGIT HOBBY~.
Besides, it's not really all that clever to point a crosshair at something and click.
edit: oh, this is my 2000th post. Time flies, eh?
[QUOTE=usaokay;24161076]Games is all about having fun with your friends or anyone around the world, not for the sake of being competitive in order to win a couple thousand.[/QUOTE]
No it's about banning every single TF2 weapon and class except the soldier and his rocket launcher
[QUOTE=wewt!;24161099]No it's about banning every single TF2 weapon and class except the soldier and his rocket launcher[/QUOTE]
Medic is ok though
but he has to use medgun only or else he is a disgrace to everyone present
Pro gamers are usually douchebags.
Why Competitive Gaming Isn't Good: This Thread.
You didn't support competitive gaming at all. Some people are competitive gamers because they enjoy competitive gameplay. There are reasons people do it aside from winning tournaments.
You also get sponsorships if you're good at what you do.
Look at Fagtality. What a real winner.
For some people, playing football is just a game. To others, its a job. its good to oppose the different standpoints. However, you're always going to have the competitive, and the casual.
the whole point of the post was that you can play games and win stuff, and yet mega shitstorm because people think that they're way of gaming is better than his.
If you have a reason to show that competitive gaming isn't beneficial then say something. if you have a reason to show that competitive is a good thing or have something to add to it, please share. If you think that competitive gaming is bad because you just don't like it and would rather mess around, rate the guy who said so it doesn't need to be repeated.
MLG is for kids who play Halo 3 and Modern warfare 2
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[QUOTE=PowerCrunch;24156494]You failed to mention the Electronic Sports League, quite easily one of the biggest companies when it comes to running competitions world wide.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, i use to play CS:S in ESL, but damn german teams use to own my team like 16-0, it was still fun though.
actually, MLG wannabes include kids who play halo 3 and modern warfare 2. Actual MLG gamers are very good at what they do and in my opinon deserve to have a league to play in.
The closest thing to competitive gaming I've ever done was play Nexuiz with 3 other friends in my basement. The winner got an extra slice of pizza.
I just want to have fun when playing video games.
You posted a thread about competitive gaming in a forum I visit. Well, shit storm time anyway. Most of the previous posters in this thread have summed up my thoughts already anyway,
Competitive gaming is a [B]joke[/B]. You call spending your entire life sitting inside following the same routine every match, using the same gun, against the same people, on the same map, with overly restricted rule sets a JOB? That is just being a absolute shut in, competitive gaming is in no way a job, and promotes the bullshit that is killing online gaming for people who play for fun. I can't go on a single server in CoD4, BF2, etc, without running into someone who claims to be ~SO Pr0ZZZzzz~, running around with a SNIPER RIFLE, trying to use it as a CQB weapon, just to be mowed down by someone with a automatic weapon (fuck, even a sidearm most times), and then crying at everyone in the server how that weapon is overpowered.
I can see why going to a LAN could be fun, and at some point in my life I wouldn't mind visiting the i series LANs in the UK to meet up with some Facepunchers, but spending hours upon hours "training" in a video game is just sad, if you are doing that, then you have lost touch with gaming. The only people that really profit from competitive gaming are the sponsors, this "job" does not leave you with any real life skills whatsoever, but the sponsors? Well, they now have the hundreds of dollars you just spent to enter yourself into that competition, the money you win is nothing compared to what they earn.
Also it spawned the "Pro/Noob" culture, where if you aren't of x rank in a online game people will ridicule you, even if you don't play in whatever bullshit "league" they are in. Every time I see a group of clanfucks in CoD4 they always have to shout out shit like "OMG look at thez lowz XDDDD". The term "pubbers" is also mostly derogatory, just because we don't go to your oh so precious competitive LANs doesn't mean we should be segregated with a name tag, and it doesn't give you the right to act high and mighty when you do come on a public server.
Give me a public server with some friends over this stupidly serious bullshit any day.
[QUOTE=hexpunK;24166117]You posted a thread about competitive gaming in a forum I visit. Well, shit storm time anyway. Most of the previous posters in this thread have summed up my thoughts already anyway,
Competitive gaming is a [B]joke[/B]. You call spending your entire life sitting inside following the same routine every match, using the same gun, against the same people, on the same map, with overly restricted rule sets a JOB? That is just being a absolute shut in, competitive gaming is in no way a job, and promotes the bullshit that is killing online gaming for people who play for fun. I can't go on a single server in CoD4, BF2, etc, without running into someone who claims to be ~SO Pr0ZZZzzz~, running around with a SNIPER RIFLE, trying to use it as a CQB weapon, just to be mowed down by someone with a automatic weapon (fuck, even a sidearm most times), and then crying at everyone in the server how that weapon is overpowered.
I can see why going to a LAN could be fun, and at some point in my life I wouldn't mind visiting the i series LANs in the UK to meet up with some Facepunchers, but spending hours upon hours "training" in a video game is just sad, if you are doing that, then you have lost touch with gaming. The only people that really profit from competitive gaming are the sponsors, this "job" does not leave you with any real life skills whatsoever, but the sponsors? Well, they now have the hundreds of dollars you just spent to enter yourself into that competition, the money you win is nothing compared to what they earn.
Also it spawned the "Pro/Noob" culture, where if you aren't of x rank in a online game people will ridicule you, even if you don't play in whatever bullshit "league" they are in. Every time I see a group of clanfucks in CoD4 they always have to shout out shit like "OMG look at thez lowz XDDDD". The term "pubbers" is also mostly derogatory, just because we don't go to your oh so precious competitive LANs doesn't mean we should be segregated with a name tag, and it doesn't give you the right to act high and mighty when you do come on a public server.
Give me a public server with some friends over this stupidly serious bullshit any day.[/QUOTE]
lol irony
Why do people use clan tags anyway
they look retarded and serve no real purpose other than being to identify someone you probably know by name anyway
Now that I think about I wouldn't getting into the competitive gamming comunity,
but only if I could play something other than CS, CoD or TF2
Now a Superman 64 tournament, that I would love to see!
[QUOTE=Raton Laveur;24166772]Why do people use clan tags anyway
they look retarded and serve no real purpose other than being to identify someone you probably know by name anyway[/QUOTE]
If they serve no real purpose they wouldn't be in games would they?
This is so dumb -.- playing mw2 isn't bad enough i got to have a 3 year old breathing down my neck about how he is having 1 more kill then me.
It has it's ups and downs
Hey, aslong as you and everything that is professional sniping stays away from me, i'm cool with it.
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