FRAG and a rant about pro gaming

Ever seen a pro gaming interview and notice how it's all rosy about the profession? It's not...

This segment uses footage from:
1) Digital Trends' Player's Only
http://media.digitaltrends.com/show/players-only/


2) Style Productions' CPL Winter Championships 2005 video
http://www.style-productions.com

3) Defrag Revolution
http://www.own-age.com/vids/video.aspx?id=4969

4) Random WCG trailers
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Thanks to all who lent video for this piece.

Category:

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[MrPCGamerHD]

Its amazing how the gaming industry has made more money then the movie industry has made and guess what?The gaming industry has done that in under 2 years. :D

[megadeth6660]

Sounds like you did not make it to top ranks xD. It also sounds like you need a new job.

[trick32190]

gaming is nothing like what they show in frag nowwadays~

[IGNsucks]

@MrPenguinGod everytime someone asks me what sports i like and i say hockey their next fucking question is always which team to you like and i say none the absolutly am bored by NHL, i want to play hockey not watch some over payed athelete to play it for me.

[IGNsucks]

@MrPenguinGod its fucking ridiculous, and I dont know if youve watched this video but it seems that the "profession" is hard to get into and usually unsuccesfull. he said it only 20 successful individuals. and secondly who the fuck what to watch someone else play a game, anyone who does this is pretty pathetic. but then again they're are millions who only watch sports and dont play them which is still soemthing that makes no sense to me.

[IGNsucks]

@MrPenguinGod yes book and movies are also art but videogames is at the top of the chain cause it combines everything. and Im not talking about Ted Price, Cliff B, Wreen Buffet, Kevine Levine......etc......whom are at the top and obvious earn more then a "pro gramer", im talking about the lower level guys, testers, QA. I doubt those people make more then a pro gamer which is pathetic cause theyre the ones developing the game.

[MrPenguinGod]

@IGNsucks the gamers who win the tournaments dont make more money than the creators the creators make money off of every purchase of their game where as the winners of these tournaments receive e X ammount of cash in order to truly make a living as a pro gamer you have to be winning next to every tournament

[MrPenguinGod]

@IGNsucks ofcourse do you consider books and movies to not be art as well cause if you do then maybe you're the idiot video games are like movies and books they have plot lines, twists great character development and everything needed to make a great story and also the guy at 1:10 is rightvideo games are already being shown on TV during MLGi have no doubt that in the future pro gaming will be considered a sportand being played on TV like baseball and football are being played today and finally

[IGNsucks]

This is fucking ridiculous, Video games are an artform, if you dont think so then stop reading this comment and get the fuck off this page. That idiot at 1:10 saying pro gaming is the next step is a fucking idiot, in fact all this multiplayer hype is down grading games making the masses think thats all video games are about when in fact real games are so much more. fuck pro gaming, how the fuck can you have people making more money playing a game then the people who made the fucking thing.

[mustardman32]

@mustardman32 FPS gamers dont make enough money to support themselves, but thats because of the media. The media see's any game, and any christian parent(over exaggeration, way over) see's FPS as a murder simulator. So business people in leagues, sponcers, and teams treat pro FPS gamers like teens,(i know they are..) while making adult choices. Plus, we gotta stop thinking there is a limit to skill, there is UNLIMITED skill in gaming,its just Koreans have fast fingers while being smart suntzu:P