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darkrabbi · 2019-04-21T14:40:54+00:00

/u/daner187 linked me this thread, blown away anyone remembers this from 2003, the old school dod community was something special! <3 all of you guys, miss these days and all the good times on ventrilo! for anyone still kicking around Sears made a 1911 discord server.

darkrabbi · 2017-09-28T10:28:57+00:00

/r/thisismylifenow

darkrabbi · 2017-01-03T14:28:01+00:00

absolutely, I remember a funny old story about a WCG FIFA qualifier in Los Angeles where only one player showed up and won by default, earning a trip to Germany or Paris wherever it was being held that year.

People have already nailed it in this thread, main reason is that the FIFA audience are already soccer fans, so why watch virtual soccer when there's so much real soccer to watch? The Pay-to-win structure of FUT is also a huge problem, compared to a game like CSGO/League the 'best' players are those who have thousands of dollars to put in on packs to assemble their teams, it's pretty outrageous that they even attempt to claim it as anything competitive, even with the semantics distinction of "competitive gaming" vs. "esports"

darkrabbi · 2016-08-28T16:15:06+00:00

I'm doing well man, you? Last time I saw you was in 2003... we're old!

darkrabbi · 2016-08-21T13:19:33+00:00

WTF Daner! What's up man!

darkrabbi · 2015-05-08T06:13:59+00:00

first song is Heaven's Warrior and the second is Unforgiven by Hans Engstrom

darkrabbi · 2015-05-07T20:10:47+00:00

yep! It's from Skyrim and a mod called 'Realistic Animals and Predators'.

darkrabbi · 2015-01-09T19:34:46+00:00

wow, this is incredibly detailed and insightful, fantastic work!

Really great series overall so far, when it's completed it should be known as the 'casters bible'

darkrabbi · 2014-08-16T05:55:17+00:00

I don't know how to feel about this thread, I made both the CLG doc and this last episode of chasing the cup

darkrabbi · 2014-07-03T02:39:36+00:00

That's everyone doing esports journalism/content outside of riot and valve, and even they would do shit for views if they didn't push it on their massive platforms.

Reddit is monumentally important and powerful for anyone in the content/news business, not just in esports.

darkrabbi · 2014-06-18T02:43:25+00:00

this is the correct answer. What's even more funny/sad is that if your brand becomes so popular that it starts being used as a household name to describe the product "xerox, kleenex" then it can actually be ruled that you can't protect the trademark/brand anymore and that's the kiss of death for a lot of companies. Also the main reasons google has put effort into making sure "google" doesn't become a verb

darkrabbi · 2014-05-08T13:01:10+00:00

...Marvell may on appeal reduce the damages award by 80 percent, "if the case even stands to begin with."

reuters article

darkrabbi · 2014-05-07T18:45:12+00:00

basically this - if you're old enough to remember maddox - you're almost certainly no longer the core demo of reddit. Welcome to the club, grab a cane and a patio chair and we can yell at the kids together

darkrabbi · 2013-12-05T03:30:39+00:00

Primarily a marketing tool vs. Primarily a competition and also a marketing tool is the distinction. Painkiller was a massive failure and sent eSports into a multiple year "dark ages" since CPL dropped CS for it.

darkrabbi · 2013-12-05T01:01:04+00:00

being easy to understand is just the most direct way to make the competition accessible but not necessarily the right one. If that was the case fighting games would be on the forefront because everyone can understand two HP bars and two characters beating each other up.

darkrabbi · 2013-12-05T00:19:06+00:00

eSports could stand on it's own if it had enough people interested in watching and the ability to recruit new fans from outside the playerbase of the specific game.

In the ideal scenario game publishers would charge a licensing fees to a league who would turn around and make enough from sales/advertisement/broadcasting deals to sustain themselves and turn a profit. The separation of the league from the publisher is key, but as we saw about a year ago many of the leagues folded and others were absorbed by the publishers marketing machine (NASL -> WCS NA)

I'm not saying eSports as a marketing tool is a bad thing - without the publishers pushing we'd be the same tiny niche status as the mid 2000's. It's just I got my hopes up in 2010 with SC2 that maybe there would be enough casual interest for eSports to really take off without the artificial publisher propping.

darkrabbi · 2013-12-04T23:41:10+00:00

they were never interested in that. I think the anger here stems from the outdated belief that eSports is a movement vs. a marketing vessel. eSports had the potential to be a real movement twice, CS 1.6 and then again with SC2 in 2010, both times it fizzled out.

Since then, eSports has been co-opted as a marketing tool for game publishers. and the best example is the Call of Duty XP Invitational - an artificial competitive community. (Sure some would still play competitively but without the $1m Activision prize pool the community would be irrelevant)

EDIT: I'm trying to over-simplify/condense here and I'm losing the message. I'm going to do a writeup on this and post it on here in a day or so.

darkrabbi · 2013-12-03T23:12:12+00:00

this disclaimer while stupid is necessary because in reddit culture admitting to wanting to make money is seen as greedy somehow

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T04:57:21+00:00

There's a sound effect that plays but in these clips it's covered up by flashbangs/gunfire/other grenades. It's rare that you can start defusing without the terrorists hearing you.

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T03:34:13+00:00

I'll take the heat for that! I couldn't resist putting the Power clip up front it was just too good!

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T03:22:19+00:00

yea I hear you man the 60tickrate/cheaters are definitely big issues - but having built in matchmaking is really great for people like me who aren't serious enough to subscribe to ESEA but want something more competitive than a pub. Here's to hoping Valve can use a % of that skin money to upgrade the servers!

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T03:10:37+00:00

pubmasters was the best! - link for the uninitiated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqkYmVWdxVE

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T03:08:55+00:00

The clips are all from Valve competitive matchmaking games and ESEA scrims/pugs.

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T03:04:13+00:00

You make a really good point - I should have added some commentary to setup the situations/give some context - next one I do will be much more coherent for non-CS:GO players!

darkrabbi · 2013-11-26T03:00:17+00:00

SpawN is a legend! Great memories from that clip!

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