The premise: Long Island Joe has been trolling fighting game tournaments by tagging himself as Brazzers LI Joe, and this weekend reality has been imitating satire and Brazzers is interested in forming a team and even hosting it's own events.
Fighting game players frequently troll each other by making fun of teams comparable to a teamless player entering an MLG as Complexity Razor Evil Geniuses Esports Liquid *actualplayernamehere* - they've seen sponsors come and go and they take themselves a lot less seriously than other gaming communities.
For example on a lot of fighting game streams the n word is thrown around pretty casually - even at sponsored events and sponsored streams. We've seen what that does to someone in the Starcraft community but it seems an accepted part of the FGC. ( fighting game community ).
I also see some comedy value in the aspect that companies and sponsors are more than happy to associate with games that feature beating up/killing the opponents character, have plenty of fanservice and nakedness, and yet throw a fit at the thought of a porn company sponsoring anything involved with it.
( That weird thing where you can happily show people getting shot/murdered/whatever brutally on a TV show and happily sell adverts from major international corporations , but you can't show a bit of boobage ).
What if Brazzers diversify their esports division ( lol ) and want to enter sponsored SC2 events?
MLG will have to deal with the issue soon anyway if LI Joe does go ahead with this sponsorship at the teams players would likely be entered in the fighting games MLG hosts at the moment.
On the one hand it's a legal industry and I don't have a problem with it personally - on the other hand it's a pretty easy stick to beat the esports industry with by anyone who wants to make a fuss about it.
LI Joe interview with Brazzers exec where it was announced:
The Evo Tournament organisers have already said they would ban any logos/mention of the sponsorship on their streams.
On April 04 2012 01:42 Klonere wrote: Intel, Kingston, Razer etc would never ever allow their brands alongside Brazzers. Ever.
This.
People who think it's cute to have a porn company associated with eSports have not thought things through. We're already viewed as a risky investment for most companies and this would only discourage reputable companies from becoming engaged. Not only that, there's a good chance we'd lose many of the brands that already support us.
not a big deal if the game is rated M because you have to be 18 to play the game and porn is legally only for 18+. I think the issue comes in when a game is rated T because not all the players are legal. I don't know the specifics but I'd argue that would be a reason why this would be controversial. Anyways, the more money in any esports scene the better.
On April 04 2012 01:18 emc wrote: not a big deal if the game is rated M because you have to be 18 to play the game and porn is legally only for 18+. I think the issue comes in when a game is rated T because not all the players are legal. I don't know the specifics but I'd argue that would be a reason why this would be controversial. Anyways, the more money in any esports scene the better.
The M rating is for 17+. The AO rating is for 18+. I know it's only a year but that alone is enough to create legal issues.
On April 04 2012 01:22 solidbebe wrote: There are alot of people <18 watching SC2 events/streams. Something would need to be done against this for any tournament to keep legally streaming.
Well there's plenty of advertising of beer and stuff on tv, at any time of the day.
On April 04 2012 01:22 solidbebe wrote: There are alot of people <18 watching SC2 events/streams. Something would need to be done against this for any tournament to keep legally streaming.
Well there's plenty of advertising of beer and stuff on tv, at any time of the day.
On April 04 2012 01:22 solidbebe wrote: There are alot of people <18 watching SC2 events/streams. Something would need to be done against this for any tournament to keep legally streaming.
Well there's plenty of advertising of beer and stuff on tv, at any time of the day.
Yeah but is there porn?
On cable there is for like Playboy TV and shit like that
As a fighting game player, I think this is awesome. FGC doesn't really have much in the way of sponsorship as is, so we don't have much to lose anyway.
Also people are overreacting to it. Brazzers sponsoring LI Joe means he gets flown out to more tournaments, enters are ZZ or BRZ | LI Joe etc, and wears or maybe hands out Brazzers t shirts. Nothing bad about that.
Also, the product requires users to be over 21, just like alcohol. Last I checked, alcohol has had no problem being a main sponsor of mainstream sporting events etc.
All they would have to do is put a disclaimer of 18+ performance only watch if your over 18 yadadadada like they do on the internet. If they come forward with money you can't really turn them down!
haha - this is actually funny. Though I can understand tournaments and publisher that don`t want to be related to this kind of industry, because a huge part of their target market are underaged kids.
simply put theyd never be able to enter the SC2 market becuase none of the tournaments would want to advertise to kids that they are being supported by a porn site so they wouldnt actually be able to advertise for them
This would be cool the comercial doesn't have to be something super provactive. Tv and streams already play the Ashley Madison commercial on every channel and that shows people bout to sex I'm sure Brazzers could come up with something that is just some logos and says Adult site then have sexy girls go to tournaments to promote and that'd work just fine.
To be honest a team of female players would be cool, but a male progamer other than incontroll advertising porn? Seems awkward to me. They might have Problems finding players.
Well Brazzers is known in the porn industry, in the end it is just a brand name though. If they want to throw money into esports to sponsor teams, why would it be a problem it is not like they are going to be having porn stars nude on stage acting out a scene or anything like that, they might have pornstars as booth babes at live events advertising their company, which is no different from any other company using booth babes as advertisement.
Hmm. I'm okay with this, Brazzers is a really good website lol
EDIT: omg can you imagine Kingston style commercials? Putting korean progamers in a commercial with porn stars would probably the best thing to ever happen to man kind. Or them making a cameo in a scene. Oh god the potential is too funny to pass up
On April 04 2012 01:22 solidbebe wrote: There are alot of people <18 watching SC2 events/streams. Something would need to be done against this for any tournament to keep legally streaming.
Well there's plenty of advertising of beer and stuff on tv, at any time of the day.
Yeah but is there porn?
How many infomercials for girls gone wild videos are there on TV? they don't have to show anything to be referring to porns
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