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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
July 08 2009 13:25 GMT
#41
What kind of a terrible joke is this? What the fuck
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ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
July 08 2009 13:37 GMT
#42
I can't wait for this to fail.
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Vision
Profile Joined June 2009
United States113 Posts
July 08 2009 13:37 GMT
#43
This guy is a fucking idiot... He doesn't even mention specific games... And the "200 progamers" are just kids who think they are good because they can beat single player games, probably never even played competitively...
Let's unite the blizzard community! But you can't actually talk to eachother..... - Luca
ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
July 08 2009 13:46 GMT
#44
LOOL Did i just hear cheerleaders? wtf? Yu gi oh players? OMG Pong......lol fag
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."-William Faulkner *_*_*_Kolll FAN_*_*_*
GoSu
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Korea (South)1773 Posts
July 08 2009 13:51 GMT
#45
On July 08 2009 14:49 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2009 14:42 Manifesto7 wrote:
On July 08 2009 14:34 MK wrote:
oh, and have you ever heard about bringit ? seems to be in the same trend of "eSport firms"


Right now there are two people on the bringit forums, with an all-time high of... 16. It doesn't seem to be making a lot of buzz. The guy who posted after the article you linked to basically outlined why the costs of running online betting outweigh the the profit growth.

I totally agree with Steve though. It has to start with a single game, and a single platform. There is too much to cover if you go for all platforms and 30 games. It becomes very difficult to market without a large staff and budget.


it becomes a gimmick basically

"gaming" is not the draw. the idea of people playing video games is not what makes esports possible, it's the games and the players themselves. they have their own playerbase and fans, esports has to start there or it fails 100% of the time


You really tell the truth, most of all in this sentence: "the idea of people playing video games is not what makes esports possible, it's the games and the players themselves".
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inReacH
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Sweden1612 Posts
July 08 2009 13:53 GMT
#46
I can't believe shit like this is for real...
WeSt
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Portugal918 Posts
July 08 2009 13:54 GMT
#47
Did I miss something? ASL was a fake tournament afterall? I'm sorry if this has been discussed a million times before.

On topic:
paying to play on ladders and "getting drafted to pro teams" sounds really stupid... i'ts just NOT going to happen lol.
zvz is imba
Medzo
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States627 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 14:11:48
July 08 2009 14:11 GMT
#48
This kind of thing pisses me off. It makes Esports look like a joke and gives our entire community look bad.
Chuiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
3470 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 14:19:29
July 08 2009 14:14 GMT
#49
Stuff like this is bound to happen, lets hope some better versions of this don't fail but that this one does.

EDIT:

Rofl, searched for it on google and 4th link goes to TL.

http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=world wide federation of gaming&btnG=Google Search&aq=f&oq=
♞
floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
July 08 2009 14:33 GMT
#50
Why are you guys doubting Rich Old White Guy? He's taking E-Sports to the next level.
K_ Takahashi
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States203 Posts
July 08 2009 14:41 GMT
#51
This guy cant be serious..."He says its going to be like the NFL." please, the shit is going to die out faster than the XFL. Some of these games possibly run longer than most American runtimes (with little to no commercial breaks) allow, so, unless there is a lot of money coming in from sponsors then there is no possible way this can work.

One last thing that just brings my piss to a fine boil is that guy with the Power Glove. It's overused, it doesn't make you badass and the peripheral sucked badly. That's like if I were to construct a crazy gauntlet out of parts of an Atari Jaguar.
JFKWT
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Singapore1442 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 15:04:47
July 08 2009 14:59 GMT
#52
On July 08 2009 23:33 floor exercise wrote:
Why are you guys doubting Rich Old FOGgy Loser? He's taking E-Sports to the next level.

fixed
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Sinedd
Profile Joined July 2008
Poland7052 Posts
July 08 2009 15:10 GMT
#53
wtf is this bullcrap ? xD dude seriously but i dont think that this is going to succeed . And this interview is just gold - "we r gonna have 4 quarters with brake after the 2nd quarter and cheerleaders and ... "

rofl
T H C makes ppl happy
MK
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States496 Posts
July 08 2009 15:14 GMT
#54
On July 08 2009 23:41 K_ Takahashi wrote:
This guy cant be serious..."He says its going to be like the NFL." please, the shit is going to die out faster than the XFL. Some of these games possibly run longer than most American runtimes (with little to no commercial breaks) allow, so, unless there is a lot of money coming in from sponsors then there is no possible way this can work.

One last thing that just brings my piss to a fine boil is that guy with the Power Glove. It's overused, it doesn't make you badass and the peripheral sucked badly. That's like if I were to construct a crazy gauntlet out of parts of an Atari Jaguar.


sorry for being noob but... what is a power glove ? Oo
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery
K_ Takahashi
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States203 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 15:24:40
July 08 2009 15:21 GMT
#55
Here you can see the good 'ol power glove in it's prime, now with over dramatized action!

Now the sad reality of this device
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 15:27:41
July 08 2009 15:26 GMT
#56
Can't wait for this to epic fail and then blizzard to come out and make SC2 esports easy cakes.

edit...

I love how he has absolutly NO clue how the tournys will run how clan matches will be. all he knows are 18 playres, trades blah blah.......
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
Medzo
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States627 Posts
July 08 2009 15:30 GMT
#57
I like how the website forum has like 3 non-admin post.
MK
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States496 Posts
July 08 2009 15:30 GMT
#58
ahah. "I love Power Glove, it's so bad" ahahah
btw, looks like a WiiMote from the past
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery
K_ Takahashi
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States203 Posts
July 08 2009 15:35 GMT
#59
On July 09 2009 00:30 MK wrote:
looks like a WiiMote from the past

It's an ancestor which should be removed from all memory.

also cheerleaders? come on now I think the crowd's gusto should suffice (but this IS America with the need for eyecandy eyecandy eyecandy).
Motiva
Profile Joined November 2007
United States1774 Posts
July 08 2009 16:07 GMT
#60
lol I wish him moderate success Just enough success so someone reasonable sees that it is possible and that it could work
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