EPTI hate esports. - Page 3
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hyptonic
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Man with a Plan
United States401 Posts
Great blog. 5/5 | ||
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Complete
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Angel_
United States1617 Posts
I remember growing up and I would get together with my friends even in highschool (until 07, not that long ago), on weekends and we would go through Rainbow 6 on fucking Dreamcast/Gamecube (damn memory), Tomb Raider, Twisted Metal 2, Ocarina of Time, Link to the Past (on a wii on a projector), and Donkey Kong Country 2. We played to have fun. To make fun of eachother. To use as a way to pass the time while we talked. To bond playing co-op or multiplayer together. Occasionally we would pick up gears of war. Once or twice we would get on Halo Multiplayer and that would last for about 20 minutes until we got tired of listening to people yelling "Faggots" in the voice chat. I hate the term rose tinted glasses. I hate it being referred to as Nostalgia. It isn't just that. Games were for a time designed purely for the sake of being games. To challenge, to entertain: to be simply a fucking good game and if you liked it, play it. They aren't anymore. They're meant to occupy you, and rake in money. Gaming isn't about play anymore, it's about business. The soul has been bastardized and abandoned by every developer, and resulted in a new generation that does not want or understand the old style and purpose of games. And the newer communities that have developed as a result are evident. The entitled, demanding, know it all, not-able-to-listen, spoiled rotten attitude permeates through everything. I find it suffocating. I know that's not exactly what you're saying. I think it's the same thing in the end though. The details you listed can be caused by what I have and are intertwined in all of it. that's not to shit on the community. it's not to shit on the newer generation or the way that people have changed and "developed" from the older one. But, while I feel like you sometimes, and while i fear that because of our "community" we honestly have zero chance of long-term, or even short-term survival because of ourselves...all i do is hope. hope and try not to be an asshole when I can manage. and be nice. and hope that that niceness carries on, and that the idiots (i have no gentler or broader word, and if i attempted to categorize each "bad" stereotype I dont think i could finish) in our community will fade on to other games, as long as they aren't tolerated and catered to. so, cheesy. love and be nice, and cut away what needs to be...and just hope it spreads. cuz...there's really not anything else to do. | ||
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Warpath
Canada1242 Posts
I couldn't give 2 shits about "esports", I just want Starcraft and the few good FPS games. And I too hope that Quantic does shit all, because everyone against Destiny in that thread have gone beyond 'overreacting' and are just intentionally running up a shitstorm. quote from a couple posts above me: I miss BW being a fun little community i miss this too. the only game that has a small cool enough crowd to be a real tight-knit community is PAYDAY, and its not a 'vs' game T.T thats why im starting to fall in love with speed-running guys. theres a select several hundred and occasionally a mass of guys that stumble their way in and have a good time. why cant people just want to play a game and not go on some crusade for ESPORTS or some other generic cause or need. | ||
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Sinensis
United States2513 Posts
Well I, for one, can't fucking stand it anymore. I don't care about Esports. In fact, I hope SC2 dies a swift death. I hope HotS gets delayed another year so WoL gets even more stale and even more players become disinterested. I hope we never get LAN. I hope all the sponsors pull out when they realize that marketing $200 dollar video cards to 16 year-olds too cheap to even pay for GomTV subscriptions is actually not a very good business plan. I hope Blizzard realizes they could make more money reskinning a WoW mount and selling it for 20 bucks in the virtual store than they could by making an RTS game and shunts all the funds away from SC2 and into the research and development of more sparkle ponies. I'd make this my sig if it weren't too long. | ||
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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thatsundowner
Canada312 Posts
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
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justinpal
United States3810 Posts
On May 02 2012 11:23 thatsundowner wrote: good to know you support racism, guy. hope that bites you in the ass one day. Did you hear that? That was the point flying over your head. It was pretty fast. | ||
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tyr
France1686 Posts
As a lot of people here, I 100% agree with everything you said. | ||
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Gummy
United States2180 Posts
On May 02 2012 11:25 justinpal wrote: Did you hear that? That was the point flying over your head. It was pretty fast. Dang I hate racists. If racists were a race, I'd be racist against racists. | ||
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javy_
United States1677 Posts
Well I, for one, can't fucking stand it anymore. I don't care about Esports. In fact, I hope SC2 dies a swift death. I hope HotS gets delayed another year so WoL gets even more stale and even more players become disinterested. I hope we never get LAN. I hope all the sponsors pull out when they realize that marketing $200 dollar video cards to 16 year-olds too cheap to even pay for GomTV subscriptions is actually not a very good business plan. I hope Blizzard realizes they could make more money reskinning a WoW mount and selling it for 20 bucks in the virtual store than they could by making an RTS game and shunts all the funds away from SC2 and into the research and development of more sparkle ponies. beautiful. 5/5 | ||
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thatsundowner
Canada312 Posts
On May 02 2012 11:25 justinpal wrote: Did you hear that? That was the point flying over your head. It was pretty fast. this guy was literally defending a massive racist, i'm not missing any points here. maybe you are? | ||
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Sinensis
United States2513 Posts
On May 02 2012 11:30 thatsundowner wrote: this guy was literally defending a massive racist, i'm not missing any points here. maybe you are? Check this out: I just had so many racial slurs to throw at you I accidentally slipped and dropped all of them before they could make it into this post. | ||
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justinpal
United States3810 Posts
On May 02 2012 11:30 thatsundowner wrote: this guy was literally defending a massive racist, i'm not missing any points here. maybe you are? No. | ||
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Newbistic
China2912 Posts
What? Oh, sorry, just got carried away by your sentiments. Nice blog. I think Team Liquid and competitive StarCraft gaming is currently hitting the community equivalent of puberty, where some want it to grow bigger and other want to return to the innocent days of youth. | ||
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Angel_
United States1617 Posts
On May 02 2012 11:36 Newbistic wrote: Let's burn the Blizzard Headquarters! Pillage their village! Rape their women! Steal their horses- What? Oh, sorry, just got carried away by your sentiments. Nice blog. I think Team Liquid and competitive StarCraft gaming is currently hitting the community equivalent of puberty, where some want it to grow bigger and other want to return to the innocent days of youth. I think it is more frankenstein realizing his monster sometimes =\ | ||
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Parnage
United States7414 Posts
People want to see this form of entertainment grow they love the games they play, they love watching people and personalities play the games and they enjoy huge fun intense tournaments with those games. People don't want it to fall apart because of one person(unlikely as that is to happen) so they protect it even if that idea of esports doesn't need any protection whatsoever they love the games and the scene you can't really blame them for being overprotective. It's like a child to some folks. As far as -that- thread is concerned, trash talking does need to go when it ruins the game experience for players. It's not a good part of our culture and it doesn't even make sense when you really get down to it. Of course a person is free to say what he pleases, so long as he's willing to except the possible backlash and Destiny will be just fine with that in mind. People have a passion for esports, you can't particularly be too upset at esports when a few overprotective parents step in and try to save it from threats that are in actuality trival. | ||
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kabar
United States616 Posts
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