Not really, most of mad people here didn't get fooled, they just think the joke was very stupid ( so do I ), but at least worked for make people aware of the team(in a very bad way).

Redox

Germany24794 Posts

April 01 2012 23:13 GMT

#243

On April 02 2012 08:10 0kz wrote:

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Not really, most of mad people here didn't get fooled, they just think the joke was very stupid ( so do I ), but at least worked for make people aware of the team(in a very bad way).

I am pretty sure most people were fooled.
Including some of those that are not mad about it (like me :D).

Brotatoes23

United States67 Posts

April 01 2012 23:17 GMT

#244

In a community chalk full of trolls, even professional interviewers and players are trolls and sometimes "bad mannered..." (See HotBid and IdrA) IdrA has the largest fan base in all e-sports. (as far as I can tell.)

How could any be so confrontational and negative about this particular launch of a team?? What do you know that they don't? "This is the end for you guys, before it even started! BAD P.R., bad p.r. BRO~"

Seriously? Shove it, guys. You aren't the good P.R. police.
Edit: It's ALSO April Fools. How many times must this day remind you of itself?

CajunMan

United States823 Posts

April 01 2012 23:18 GMT

#245

Wait so wtf is goin on there comments after are confusing is this a fucking team or not and wtf was the joke.

helvete

Sweden276 Posts

April 01 2012 23:25 GMT

#246

The ONE day of the year when you're not allowed to cry and moan about being tricked.. and what do we have here on TL? A bunch of people stuck on the notion that we're curing cancer on this site and we mustn't ever smile or take ourselves lightly, moaning and crying their hearts out. Try not to take yourselves too seriously, its good for the ego to have it's feathers ruffled every now and again.

Adtor

Canada82 Posts

April 01 2012 23:29 GMT

#247

I first heard of this team by that ''fake'' scam uproar. You have no idea how it tarnished my view on this compagny. There are too many scams, failed events, greedy sponsor that exploits people in e-sports and you thought ''Hey, let's look like absolute assholes, people will love us!''.
Even coming around saying ''nah, was a joke'' still will never wash the first impression you gave me.

Congratulation on building up the team. Best of luck to the players. But I will not be following the progress.

Aemilia

344 Posts

April 01 2012 23:33 GMT

#248

This is a lot like that Simpsons episode with the angel statue.

Nimic

Norway1360 Posts

April 01 2012 23:39 GMT

#249

Did some people actually believe it was true? On April 1st?

I mean, it wasn't the most inspired joke ever, but at least I'll remember them now.

marcesr

Germany1383 Posts

April 01 2012 23:43 GMT

#250

Yeah it wasnt the best joke ever but still a good idea, they got a lot of attention.

Another gaming house in Europe?! This is great great news!

Trollk

Belgium93 Posts

April 01 2012 23:48 GMT

#251

I still am trying to figure out how they finance their operations. They seem to have no sponsors at all on their website and could not find any link to any company. Unless that gets cleared out, I am still sceptical about it.

Theovide

Sweden914 Posts

April 02 2012 00:07 GMT

#252

This one and Bombers where the only april jokes that I kind of believed, well played.

Though I'm still kind of pissed that you guys started the team about 3 days after me and my rl friends decided to rename ourselves to ecName for our own esl amateur clan ._.

Theovide

Sweden914 Posts

April 02 2012 00:08 GMT

#253

Also, I see no reason why people should be pissed, april fool jokes wouldn't be as fun if all of them where obvious and totally unoffensive.

Deshkar

Singapore1244 Posts

April 02 2012 00:08 GMT

#254

oh well . i will definitely remember them now. first impression indeed. as team who decided to insult and make light of all the former teams and players who actually suffered from scams and malpractices within the esports industry. i didnt think i was real but couldnt believe that a new team would actually decide to shit on their fellow peers who had suffered.

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

April 02 2012 00:44 GMT

#255

LIke I said in the other thread, this was a terrible idea by you.

What you describe as a " joke " happens to people all the time in this business, It's in horrible taste to make fun of such situations.

Really pathetic using the fact that people will pay attention to a thread about the subject of a team being a scam to gain publicity, you get no respect from me.

Come up with a better joke next year...If you're even still around.

LunaSea

Luxembourg369 Posts

April 02 2012 00:46 GMT

#256

Jokes of this caliber are unhealthy for the eSport scene and proves a lack of professionalism.

LeeDawg

United States1306 Posts

April 02 2012 00:49 GMT

#257

bad joke is not funny. i won't support this unprofessional team.

plus, they have desrow, who i abhor

Zooper31

United States5714 Posts

April 02 2012 00:51 GMT

#258

On April 01 2012 23:39 SlitZ wrote:
What a retarded way to get publicity.

I hope you guys go out the same way as you came crawling in.

Ya I don't like it either. Caused too much of a commotion with something that has happened too many times before.

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

April 02 2012 00:55 GMT

#259

made your video intro its very good !!

InSSerenity

117 Posts

April 02 2012 01:00 GMT

#260

On April 02 2012 08:17 Brotatoes23 wrote:
In a community chalk full of trolls, even professional interviewers and players are trolls and sometimes "bad mannered..." (See HotBid and IdrA) IdrA has the largest fan base in all e-sports. (as far as I can tell.)

How could any be so confrontational and negative about this particular launch of a team?? What do you know that they don't? "This is the end for you guys, before it even started! BAD P.R., bad p.r. BRO~"

Seriously? Shove it, guys. You aren't the good P.R. police.
Edit: It's ALSO April Fools. How many times must this day remind you of itself?

I would just like to point out that e-sports isn't SC2 alone. IdrA may or may not have the highest in sc2, impossible to track or tell one way or the other. But at the same time his stream doesn't break 20k+ like some of the LoL players (example: Dyrus, who has 10k+ every time he streams regardless of time.)

Btw, the community is the PR police. It's their job quite literally to make us want to support them by supporting their sponsors who pay for them to do what they love.
So yes. It IS the community's job to be their PR police, if they offend us it makes us less likely to purchase/use the product their sponsors are trying to advertise. If we don't let them know they offended us then they're that much more likely to fail when the sponsors aren't feeling like they're getting the ROI they paid for without a valid reason.

Side note: This is not meant to insult IdrA in any way, he is my favorite sc2 player, but numbers wise he's far from the most popular character in e-sports.