EPTOn February 03 2010 22:40 nujgnoy wrote:
If the players were actually hostile towards the celebrity, I would understand why. They make their living off of playing starcraft, and their career depends on their performance.
But along comes a celebrity who wants to deep their foot into the whole field just for entertainment.
Although I am not a fan of Jaehoon, I would be pretty pissed in his shoes. That's like a spoiled rich kid taking your office space and you being forced to move out; the fact is that someone is taking away what you've worked hard to earn because of their status. Same thing with the guy who stands up to express frustration; Of the so many people in the Courage videos from Artosis, only ~5 kids actually made it to become house players. People dedicate their lives to get in, and here comes this guy who has absolutely no need to be a progamer, makes a living through an entirely different career, and passes absolutely no real qualifying test yet the coach seems to suggest that he takes his teammate's seat.
I know that publicity for the team and for progaming that this show will bring about has positive effects; but I can see why the players might be hostile (if that part of the drama wasn't staged for attention that is). I think that calling them "socially incompetent fags" is definitely uncalled for because their behavior is actually not at all foreign to American culture and how normal people would behave in similar situations. What would you say if a celebrity wanted to take Artosis's job just because he wanted to try being a starcraft announcer? This may not be exactly the same as what this guy's asking for, but to the progamer who gets his seat taken away, it's gonna sound exactly as if that were the case.
If the players were actually hostile towards the celebrity, I would understand why. They make their living off of playing starcraft, and their career depends on their performance.
But along comes a celebrity who wants to deep their foot into the whole field just for entertainment.
Although I am not a fan of Jaehoon, I would be pretty pissed in his shoes. That's like a spoiled rich kid taking your office space and you being forced to move out; the fact is that someone is taking away what you've worked hard to earn because of their status. Same thing with the guy who stands up to express frustration; Of the so many people in the Courage videos from Artosis, only ~5 kids actually made it to become house players. People dedicate their lives to get in, and here comes this guy who has absolutely no need to be a progamer, makes a living through an entirely different career, and passes absolutely no real qualifying test yet the coach seems to suggest that he takes his teammate's seat.
I know that publicity for the team and for progaming that this show will bring about has positive effects; but I can see why the players might be hostile (if that part of the drama wasn't staged for attention that is). I think that calling them "socially incompetent fags" is definitely uncalled for because their behavior is actually not at all foreign to American culture and how normal people would behave in similar situations. What would you say if a celebrity wanted to take Artosis's job just because he wanted to try being a starcraft announcer? This may not be exactly the same as what this guy's asking for, but to the progamer who gets his seat taken away, it's gonna sound exactly as if that were the case.
But no one will get their position taken away from them unless this guy happens to get good, which he won't, which means that it is just a TV show made for entertainment. If this guy is really serious about being good at starcraft it shouldn't matter to you if he is rich or spoiled, all that matters is his skill. Since he doesn't have any skill and is just fucking around, people should not being getting upset over this and should just be laughing at it.
