Totenkopf
April 11th, 2003, 11:56 AM
Top Ten Reasons Pro Gaming sucks
There was an interesting feature on Gamespy telling us the "Top Ten Reasons why Pro Gaming sucks". I always thought watching people fragging each other and making me feel like a n00b isn't fun to watch or report about so I hope this supports my opinion. Here is a part I don't agreee with though:
Video games are –- above all else –- supposed to be fun. Entertaining. Enjoyable.
Once you start taking it seriously, once you start practicing tens of hours a day to get up to competitive strength, once you start posting emotional speeches speaking out against the strength of a fictional weapon being changed from thirty to twenty-five, well, where’s the fun in that? Gaming becomes more like a really bad job.
Isn't that the same with all sports? Look at Football, Baseball, Soccer, etc. they all were created to have fun and not that some people can make a fortune out of it. When I was little I really enjoyed watching Soccer but right now it seems to me that all they care about is the money and not supporting their team the best they can. Anyway, check out the rest of the article here http://www.gamespy.com/top10/april03/progaming/ .
There was an interesting feature on Gamespy telling us the "Top Ten Reasons why Pro Gaming sucks". I always thought watching people fragging each other and making me feel like a n00b isn't fun to watch or report about so I hope this supports my opinion. Here is a part I don't agreee with though:
Video games are –- above all else –- supposed to be fun. Entertaining. Enjoyable.
Once you start taking it seriously, once you start practicing tens of hours a day to get up to competitive strength, once you start posting emotional speeches speaking out against the strength of a fictional weapon being changed from thirty to twenty-five, well, where’s the fun in that? Gaming becomes more like a really bad job.
Isn't that the same with all sports? Look at Football, Baseball, Soccer, etc. they all were created to have fun and not that some people can make a fortune out of it. When I was little I really enjoyed watching Soccer but right now it seems to me that all they care about is the money and not supporting their team the best they can. Anyway, check out the rest of the article here http://www.gamespy.com/top10/april03/progaming/ .