The Pro scene: overinflated egos, overinflated egos everywhere
Mac
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_224643]@nttea[/url] But, my dear "MLG," that's exactly what Dota2 players are: little shits who would have a heart attack playing two minutes of basketball IRL running around talking about how pro they are at a crappy videogame.
U mad?
geek2
about 12 years ago
Same as in every sport and e-sport. Drama feed us!
Naziman
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_225002]@Ninj77[/url]: They earn money from it, which is the definition of professional.
Ninj77
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_224860]@2033[/url]: Agree, pal. Even the term "professional players" is a joke itself.
Btw, is the new comic late?
mags
over 12 years ago
save the drama for the llama.
Imagine
over 12 years ago
I dream of a world where magicka becomes competitive
2033
over 12 years ago
and here people ask why I hate professional players?
Aki
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_224422]@Tk[/url]: except there ARE teams in SC, and that's where a lot of the drama comes from (contacting sponsors, players fucking up contracts, etc)
Dustin
over 12 years ago
I enjoy Starcraft 2's 1v1 pro play because it's larger armies fighting. But MOBA is just awful IMO. I hated it on Warcraft 3, and I hate it still.
Davtwan
over 12 years ago
I imagined the first two panels were a really bad anime drama with exaggerated Japanese.
jso
over 12 years ago
MLG, the most perfect setting for comedy
TheBaron
over 12 years ago
Yeah, the web is that way. Though I like developer drama better. EvE Online removed the in game jukebox. Excrement to fan contact webside.
Bronysexual
over 12 years ago
Not enough ponies
draw more pony comics or ill never come bakc again
Yaruosu
over 12 years ago
Natus Vincere, Know 'em? Those guys is coool. they are team, they are al toghether. And im proud of them, since im same national as they are.
Lucky
over 12 years ago
Brofist Top Gun, I don't get it either.
Top Gun
over 12 years ago
I don't see any appeal whatsoever in the whole MOBA/Action-RTS/whatever genre, but watching other people play it competitively? I sat through a bit of a match once, just out of curiosity, and dear lord, it made golf look like a Michael Bay movie. I just don't get it.
Techgineer
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_224662]@Xedric[/url]
I take it you don't follow the LoL Pro Scene. It's ten times as bad since there's a ton more money on the line.
Xedric
over 12 years ago
In other words. Play LoL. It's just easier and there's less bitching.
nttea
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_224635]@mac[/url] Spoken like a true noob, you certainly haven't played dota2 if you think being pro at it is just memorizing op strategies and muscle memory. If it was then guess what, like 50% of the playerbase would be pro.
Mac
over 12 years ago
Not to mention that being a "pro" at videogames is a joke. All it boils down to is memorizing OP strategies and muscle memory- which I suppose you could argue is like Chess, albeit a much, much more watered down version.
Max
over 12 years ago
Dat perspective.
I actually thought Sephiroth's hand turned into hooves for a sec.
And yeah, drama, same on LoL.
Benny Tops
over 12 years ago
@Benny Tops: And That also ties back into the comic and drama. Wow, ramble much.
See you at the Tops.
Benny Tops
over 12 years ago
Hmmm.... I noticed the Seph/Cloud (sounds like an STD) too. I really like the fact that Jo ain't bending over backward to please anyone but himself. Makes for far or entertaining comics. It is kinda the same reason that Blizz takes input but will ignore most of it. People tend to be very self servin
Xeranar
over 12 years ago
The fundamental issue with "Pro" video gaming is that it's too easy to be truly great and the money isn't really good enough to make it seriously exclusive. Those two factors contribute to a revolving door of talent.
AEIOU
over 12 years ago
And this is why I refuse to go competitive.
On another note, they should totally do a drama like this. Don't show the actual players, but use a personification of the teams and games.
Passerby
over 12 years ago
At panel 2: OBJECTION!!!
Human League
over 12 years ago
You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
When I met you. I picked you out
I shook you up
And turned you around
Turned you into someone new.
Don't you want me baby?
Don't you want me - oooh!
Don't you want me baby?
Don't you want me - oooh!
Ninj77
over 12 years ago
"But..but..you said you loved me!..You whore! And FYI: I AM NOT FAT!!"....all this and more next week in your favorite soap-opera: DOTA 2!!! Stay tuned!
dealwithit
over 12 years ago
this is the reason why dota 2 sucks
Nando Rock
over 12 years ago
If it is to be humiliated, I go to my work, if it is to be charged, I get my marriage, but in DOTA, some Pro try to be our bosses or wife.
KreKre
over 12 years ago
Reason i love Eve, cant stand playing it but the player interaction and corporate drama makes it so much more fun watching than playing
KarmikCykle
over 12 years ago
Pro gaming is pretty much universally hilariously stupid.
MKB
over 12 years ago
I thought it was Steam-tan at first glance
Goro
over 12 years ago
Hardly qualifies as Drama.
usbfridge
over 12 years ago
The Cloud and Seph thing was intentional. They are supposed to represent "Big Gaming Figures", and the fact that Sephiroph is kicking Cloud off the team is because he is supposed to be the bad guy in the drama. Simple enough.
NoU
over 12 years ago
The actual equation is "Popcorn + Tentacle = J-Poporn" =P
Daedalus
over 12 years ago
Huh... for some reason I thought they were Cloud and Sephy at first, went in a different direction than I thought it was going to.
A Gray Phantom
over 12 years ago
See, people, this is why I don't do teams.
Globus
over 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_224357]@LonePaladin[/url]: Can't be. Where is the industrial hair cement?
Tk
over 12 years ago
the starcraft drama does out rank the dota stuff even and there arent even teams.
Lol
over 12 years ago
Check out starcraft reddit. Drama each day. Delicious.
It's good! A maturity of a sport brings validation. Validation brings money. Money brings drama.
-__-
over 12 years ago
Jo is dota2 nerd, now, officially.
truf
over 12 years ago
so bad
Platypus
over 12 years ago
Just gotta animate this shit in Source Film and sell it to day time TV programming. Valve could make a killing.
OMG
over 12 years ago
So many Dota 2 comics. More F-Zero or I'll never read again!!!1!1!
wc3dota
over 12 years ago
meh, i just play the game for fun. during international, who the fuck is Na'Vi?
And here I thought it was Sephiroth and Cloud going all slash-fic on us.
Zephirdd
over 12 years ago
need more e-sports stuff
RoflCat
over 12 years ago
And sport fans had this before: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKwKDokHVQc
Esports
over 12 years ago
Welcome to Esports where the drama overtakes the game. Don't follow Dota2 but do follow other Esports so I can imagine it's pretty much the same. Gamers can obsess or be entertained by pro gamers just as much as sports fans can by pro athletes.
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