eSports is hurting eSports - Page 11

On December 05 2011 19:45 Ktk wrote:
Starcraft is not fun to play for most people, Starcraft is not fun to watch for most people.

TL is the 1%

On December 01 2011 08:09 mmp wrote:

How can I rebutt what is not false? Your determination to argue on a factual basis makes strong-arming my argument very difficult!

Unfortunately I think you're focusing on all of the chips and cracks of what I wrote and not looking at the broader sculpture. You don't have to agree with my disparaging portrayal of one sport over another to hold your own biases on the same subject and arrive at your own criteria for discriminating the real sports from the phony.


So we agree, video games are not sports -- unless you're partial to the belief that there is something special about SC2. I feel it too... it's called advertisement. Your tastes and preferences are warped to fit the market, and so we must be living in revolutionary times where anything is possible and your mother and sister will learn Starcraft and there will be stadiums full of cheering fans for... Idra??? (kill me now)


This isn't algebra. It's a hypothesis. Agree with it or not, the preface introduces the body material -- it does need to validate it. That's for you to think about.



Your friends are nerds (this isn't a bad thing).


Yes, definitely rambling. Quite shitty.


I never said you weren't allowed (who am I to prevent you?). I just said you were going to a bar for all the wrong reasons, reasons we nerds do not like to tell ourselves when we engage in social nerddom. In a nutshell, you're trying to shape the world around your private interests, rather than embracing the world as it is.


Because SC2 only exists to promote these things, much like the NFL. Without big sponsorship SC2 would be deader than Samir Duran, just a shiny walking corpse that no one takes seriously for its competitive value. The significance attached to skill in SC2 is completely artificial.


NCAA, poker, whatever... most never make it. The smart ones know when to walk away and revert to plan B. No one can be successful without hard work, but you need to be honest with yourself about what your goals are and why they're important to you. Most are in it for the money, and few will win big, so what does that make the rest? I think "dedicated" is too kind.


That is a false characterization (I'm more of the "mwahaha" evil laugher). No I am genuinely concerned about all of those talented "pros" who may have stable gigs for now, but they're not going to win a major tournament any time soon, some of them do not look happy where they are (which is sad considering they're playing a game for a living), and their youthful talents are going to waste chasing an artificial dream. At best, they can entertain us with exciting games, but (as I have already laid out) the game itself is not conducive to this task.