Are the any competitive shooters left?

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  1. De Troll

    De Troll New Member

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    If you were playing for a million dollars, wouldn't you get a little excited?
  2. thebigpill

    thebigpill Well-Known Member

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    Starcraft players also play for a million dollars. They're not yelling at each other like monkeys because they've mastered the secret art of self-control.
  3. poiuasd

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    Referring to a documentary about professional RTS players I saw a while back, those guys would probably get beat up by their mentors if they start acting out.
  4. comham

    comham Active Member

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    If the Arma community was bigger, it'd be fun to have small team tournaments.
  5. kvalheim

    kvalheim Post Master General

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    Every other competitive league manages to NOT act like a bunch of 12 year olds.
  6. grimbar

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    You don't even know how wrong you are.
  7. thebigpill

    thebigpill Well-Known Member

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    dunno much about the Koreans, but the westerners are pretty disciplined and serial about the game without trainers threatening to smack dem fools, excluding idra (bad manners) and liquidret (lazy as f*ck).

    edit: @grim, well the difference is, in the comp games I follow there are plenty of childish incidents. That CoD stuff is non-stop.
  8. kvalheim

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    The main thing I got from the video was just how much CoD "competitve" players just act exactly like the chavvy kids from 1st-2nd year in my school.
  9. sorewawatashi

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    Only CoD players act like that? Isn't that a broad generalization?
  10. De Troll

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    Yet they make more money in a month than both your parents combined make in a year. Not trying to start a fight here, just stating facts.
  11. kvalheim

    kvalheim Post Master General

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    I'd only care if my life revolved around CoD or money. Which it doesn't
  12. light0

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    ....are you sure? Income for a professional gamer is pretty bad from what I've read.
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    BO2 is great. I have a feeling Ghosts will suck ***.
  14. poiuasd

    poiuasd Well-Known Member

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    Anything past MW2 has been pretty boring IMO.
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  16. thebigpill

    thebigpill Well-Known Member

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    In the case of PC FPS, pro gamers are basically idiots who are exploited by their sponsors and lan organizers. There are more tournaments where the price money was never paid to the winners and more sponsors who break promises than the other way around.

    Funny part is that arQon predicted this was going to happen 13 years ago. Back then nobody believed him AFAIK.
  17. De Troll

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    With the CoD Championship tournament becoming a regular thing ($1,000,000 prize pool), it's solid income. Impact, the best team in BO2, won three LAN tournaments in the span of a month. The winnings per player are: MLG Dallas ($5,000), EGL 9 ($5,000), CoD Champs ($100,000), and also UMG St. Louis ($2,000). That's purely off tournament winnings. Then you've got a guy like Nadeshot who makes around $60k yearly off of youtube and twitch revenue, and also won $30k at CoD Champs for 3rd place.
    So there is money to be made if you make it.
  18. thebigpill

    thebigpill Well-Known Member

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    Serious question here, because I honestly don't know what to expect, but does anybody believe that someone deserves to win $100,000 for winning a game of CoD blops?
  19. knickles

    knickles Well-Known Member

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    It's a popular game with lots of money around it.

    yes.
  20. thebigpill

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    So is Angry Birds.

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