Hahaha, thanks for brightening my day! I disagree with some of your points but your honesty is a breath of fresh air around here where everything "non-esports" has to be hush-hush or otherwise flamed at.

I was having a crappy day, I feel much better after reading this

5/5

insanet

Peru439 Posts

May 02 2012 02:00 GMT

#31

i hate esports too, is just a buzz word promoted by some people so we the "gamers" can get accepted by mainstream media. fuck that.

computer games or consoles games are not sports. Chess being called a "sport " is just an honorable mention that doesnt mean every fricking board game is an sport.

mainstream media should realize gamers != losers. we should help them realize gamers = everybody,winners and losers.

having said that, im ok with terms like "Professional Gaming" or "Electronic Professional Gamers"

OptimusYale

Korea (South)1005 Posts

May 02 2012 02:00 GMT

#32

I agree....play the game you like and screw the bigger picture

If people complain about racial slurs in starcraft have they never played Halo? never played COD Or any other console game?

Those people who say for esports is whats wrong with all communities, no just ours. They're the people who want everything nannied...that dont want people to express themselves in anyway that may offend them. IUt's like trying to get comedians to stop saying racist or religion jokes...if you don't like it just fucking ignore it. Someone calls someone else a nigger or a gook, ignore it, don't fucking witch hunt. Remove your viewership from that person, but don't contact the sponsors. You don't phone the police when someone else calls someone a nigger.

The word Esports has lost its meaning to the majority of the people on this site. Esports shouldn't be protected like it is, let it grow up and get those bruises...get itself dirty by playing in muddy puddles. Esports will then grow up enjoying its youth, instead of being forced to grow up too fast

NoScary

United States151 Posts

May 02 2012 02:01 GMT

#33

I'm with you about 80% of the way on this post. I hate that the community has equated 'esportliness' with godliness, but I still enjoy the idea of taking gaming seriously as a viable competitive alternative to physical sports.

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

May 02 2012 02:06 GMT

#34

I used to find so many Gheed's back in the day. Those things drop like no ones business.

Insane

United States4991 Posts

May 02 2012 02:06 GMT

#35

I don't really agree with you with regards to the spoilered stuff, but for the actual "main" contents of the post I completely agree. It's ridiculous how everything is "esports this, need to do this to get sponsors, etc.". I miss BW being a fun little community, independently of sponsors - teams were actually made up of a group of people who got together and said "hey, let's make a team, that could be fun!". Hell, ToT), almost unarguably the greatest foreigner team of all time, was a group of friends who just played for fun.
Nowadays basically all the teams we see are run by a bunch of managers, not players, and it's all about "growing esports". Man, I cannot care less about "growing esports". I don't even particularly enjoy watching people play SC2 (nor did I enjoy watching people play BW much). I like playing the game, and that's that.
That's not something that esports gives me.

Flonomenalz

Nigeria3519 Posts

May 02 2012 02:08 GMT

#36

destiny's racial slurs are killing esports, obviously

for some reason everything and everyone has to be perfectly 100% mannered FOR ESPORTS or all sponsors will be lost and SC2 will die.

MountainDewJunkie

United States10341 Posts

May 02 2012 02:11 GMT

#37

Don't forget the greatest example of the bullshit that is "Esports," and the drones that obey.

jpak

United States5045 Posts

May 02 2012 02:13 GMT

#38

I approve of this blog post. It especially hit me on the head when I translated Kim Carrier's Medic Date. The fun comes first, then competition grows out of that fun, not the other way around.

TheRealFluid

United States501 Posts

May 02 2012 02:13 GMT

#39

Someone has to take competitive video gaming seriously someway or another in order for it to be respected by others. Take for example most professional games (I'm looking at everyone here) and they'll tell you that they love the game they play. Most progamers don't give a shit that they don't win tournaments, just as long as they get on a survivable budget for them to support themselves for a year. From what I see, most tournaments have a big prize pool in order to legitimize the game and to attract a larger audience. Also, most nerds would love to see video games broadcasted on televison. It sure beats whatever the hell is on MTV.

United States6173 Posts

May 02 2012 02:14 GMT

#40

On May 02 2012 10:30 SpearWrit wrote:
Ohhhh Gheed...

It's hard to rail on you for this post knowing that your own content provides myself and many others with delightful entertainment.
ESPORTS is already a business driven industry with multinational corporate interests and is no longer an "illusion"...so your own dream of fuckitall will not come to pass.