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hmm, yeah, i don't know what fatality is doing.

usually it kinda ends as you expect, you stop doing the only thing you were good at because that's all you've been doing for the past few years, you end up in some shitty job, playing casually from time to time with friends.

today ex pros have it easier, because streaming and e-sport is popular, they can try to stay within the community as casters or coaches for the teams. and, well, retiring today is also different from retiring in the past, today e-sport is such a big buck, those guys have more motivation and can "see the future".

I think dota players are one of the luckiest, picked up some fukin w3 mod as their career choice mid 2000s, suddenly valve revived it in 2010 making it a big hit.

look at loda, started in 2006, he retired this year and is coaching a team. living the dream

I remember hearing one of the guys who won some Atari contest back in 1981 or so opened their own arcade that still runs to this day.

>>15668945

>this bottom blasted

What game was it and how badly did you fail "to go pro" child?

>>15668868 (OP)

They got old, the games they trained for years are either no longer supported in tournament sponsorship or there's no longer a sizable community and audience. There was this Canadian fag who went to be a bigshot Starcraft-Pro, then he retired and just live is life in South Korea, then no news. It's pretty sad that we don't get a Documentary for the old gamer pros from 15-20 years ago, but we have plenty for self-important indie retards.

Only under 20's play SC2 competitively. Afterwards they go on to either being coaches, trainers, faggot ass "personalities" casters or just get regular jobs. Also Idra was always shit.

>>15668868 (OP)

>lifting calms me, competitive gaming only fuelled my ragefits

He's not wrong in the slightest. Hitting the gym helps him build his own body up, playing games other than for the fun of it makes him a sore loser.

>>15668868 (OP)

Most pro gamers from before the age of Twitch went to school and got real jobs because the return on investment for competitive gaming back then was too low to do for very long.

>>15668899 (che-

>>15668900 -ck-

>>15669055 -ed)

Even SpawN has a twitch now.

I didn't follow cs too much, why did he stop playing pro?

I remember when Idra cut his hair like a Korean and everyone call him Harry Potter for months.

>youtube recommendation

not even going to give you a (you), OP.

Idra was a fun shittalker, the community is probably shit without him

>>15668957

>he deleted it

What was it and why do I have a slight suspicion it was the toothless wonder Jakku?

>>15671169

Its fun to watch big dreams burn down in a worthless blaze.

>>15671176

I always thought it was really fucked up how certain companies encouraged "pro gamers" when it was obvious that 99% of them would ruin their lives chasing that dream. Blizzard is especially bad about pretending they care about "e-sports" and then they always fuck over their pro players. Just look at what happened with StarCraft 2

Idra's rage issues were hilarious.

>>15671219

Blizzard is hilariously incompetent and simultaneously greedy when it comes to esports shit

Their games can amass followings and organize shit on their own with 3rd party organizations, but once they actually want a piece of the pie they end up fucking up everything permanently

>>15671219

Too many people go in blinded by shit like the $1 million and up prize pool in fucking dota 2. Little do they realize they'll not only never get it, but their career will be way too short form any meaningful amount of income. Its a sad existance.

i know he doesnt actually count as a "pro", but whatever happened to Rambo from Dofus ?

i think he was the first to reach lvl 200 and was a big deal back in 07 or 08

>>15671504

Seeing James Chen just makes me sad and annoyed at this point.

>>15671575

You don't like seeing him weep from "passion" every EVO like clockwork?

Daigo wrote a really good book called "The Will to Keep Winning."

Highly recommend.

>>15668868 (OP)

only one that I know of:

Starcraft pro and 2014 WCS champion "Life" was arrested in 2016 for match fixing and was later sentenced to 18 months in prison. He tried to appeal, but it was dismissed. He was also banned from pretty much every SC2 league I can think of.

I'm curious about a certain commentator, 2GD. I remember him being a very fun commentator who dispensed banter like it was candy. Is he still around or was his type of fun declared haram?

>>15668868 (OP)

>turned into fat, prematurely balding guys that coach players for money

So, it's just like real sports.

>>15669409

a few pro or pro-level gamers I know from a game i used o play a lot went into finance. They told me the mind games involved to influence a market was similar to in game.

<I beat this "pro" and have a full time job

top level shit talking

Hey guys remember zezima? I wonder what he's up to nowadays, has he committed suicide yet?

>>15672317

there's a decent amount of 3dpd in esports now. a lot of it underage.

>>15673033

I think he streams OSRS on twitch now

>>15671435

It went entirely downhill once they added arenas, which was their bid to force esports into WoW as hard as they could. It's amazing to me that they're doubling down.

>>15671891

What a fucking rat.

>>15671946

He got fired from that dota tournament and now he's making an arena shooter last I remember.

What happened to that guy who wrote on a marker board while Valve couldn't be assed to get their dota tournament to work right?

CS 1.6 I kept up with. Most old top players stayed with 1.6 up until 2012 until csgo came out. Half took the jump to csgo, no one liked the mechanics and they fizzled out. Still top players though from 1.6. Some teams I remember. cArn was in fnatic (swedes), he was the tactician leader. He became a fnatic manager in 2012 or so lived in Korea, dunno anymore.

Most top teams stayed moving into csgo, golden 5 Polish team neo pasha etc, NiP forget their names Swedes, one some were in fnatic like f0rest, and some guy's name starting with an X. US players same thing, iBP, cloud9(EG) n0thing Jordan Gilbert, he went to college 2013ish. A lot still play, the leagues are accessible online, and Lans are twice a year in US like ESEA.

Lurrpis was the only Finnish who lived and played for a US team in 1.6, he made a Finnish teqm for the last tourney of 1.6 in a Japan only tournament. He spoke often at hltv.org and in esea, the pros and try hards had a community there. Was a nice time back then. Globally teams tried csgo like Brazil's team with cogu the sniper dude. Other rqndom names EG froD, NiP HeatoN (with black dude mentioned in thread 2005), HeatoN and black dude were advertised in benQ's first 120hz monitor in 2011.

>>15672317

>writing off logical advice because of someone's identity

Fucker do you even realize why we are here in the first place?

>>15676376

I find great joy in learning hbox is losing it after he quit his engineering job to play melee some more.

>>15676376

Is hbox that guy who made that d-pad smash controller??

>>15672317

>brick by brick

>>15672317

>movieblob

>professional videogaymer

That fat faggot's video game experience can be summarized as "anything that isn't Mario is fucking trash and Nintendo is the god savior of gaming." His "book" about SMB3 is instead a bizarre and poorly written autobiography about his pathetic life and how everything revolved around Nintendo. And yet apparently, despite his complete lack of any relevant video game knowledge, the Escapist is letting him bring back his godawful video game show where he'll sperg endlessly about how terrible it is that every game isn't Mario.

I would get upset about this, but hey, at least I'm not a 40-year-old, obese, balding, diabetic sperg living in a basement with anger management issues and a desire to see everything in the US that isn't a coastal megalopolis completely annihilated. In the long run, I think I'm gonna come out ahead.

>>15668868 (OP)

>he once lost to a protoss hallucination rush and…

…went on to win the series 2:1, retard.

>>15679085

>…

Back to gaia.

>>15668868 (OP)

>Turns out he quit streaming and took up weight lifting and become a swole lunk who says 'lifting calms me, competitive gaming only fuelled my ragefits'

Sounds like he's attained a much better quality of life.

>>15679091

Pretty sure it's justified in that instance, anon.

>>15677470

His mother's basement, to be specific. He calls it a "studio apartment" as well.

>>15677311

I think you're thinking of Haxx$.

>>15680389

In South Korea your skill is irrelevant. You're a face and the audience always wants new faces.

>>15671504

The native Koreans/Japanese/Taiwanese/Chinese players are all pretty normal dudes. The only dude from the US who woke up and saw the writing on the wall was Mike Ross.

I remember when the FGC collectively told the MLG no to any type of deal. Instead the FGC became a cancerous mess of gentrification and shilling themselves. Things were never great, but they really turned a corner for the worse with SFV.

>>15668868 (OP)

They had to retire when they hit 21.

>>15671931

Wong and Diago have it lucky. They got in so early on and are such legends they are the few that can still make good money in such a poor scene. Same with the few tippy-tippy top in smash.

>>15671946

He is making an arena shooter called Diabotical and he still casts some things for non-Valve tournaments in Dota last I remember.

Fatal1ty has his name attached to the gaming series of ASRock motherboards and some other stuff too IIRC. He also streams some games on twitch, fortnite recently.

I think I'm more annoyed that e-sports is even a fucking thing. Can fags just not play a video game?

>>15695912

Competitive gaming will exist as long as humans will. You can say the same thing about poker, chess, fucking bingo if you are so inclined.

>>15696319

e-sports you fucking retard

>>15696336

Back in medieval times people used to play chess for grains of rice. Anon's just saying that there's always that group of people that want to play games for something other than fun, whether it be motivated by greed or by being a giant faggot without any self-awareness.

>>15673033

He'll always be a legend to me. Truly the greatest.

>>15668899

>loda started in 2006

fuck I feel old now

>>15681011

You misunderstand, the linked research shows that reaction time declines with age.

That said while they do control for league they point out that older players don't play as many hours, and I wonder what happens with the results when you control for time played / week, and when you control for employed / unemployed.

>>15697384

>>15696319

Are you really fucking comparing games played by men to e-sports you faggot? Goddamn

>>15697384

There'd be nothing wrong with playing a video game for money if it wasn't being turned into a spectator event. See: contests, bets, etc.

>>15697884

Wasn't this proven bullshit? You theory is correct although I can't find the study. Though you will find that Fatality, Cooler, Rapha and the entire FGC pros are all over 30 and still remain skillful. So it is definitely due to practice.

>>15701196

Personally i'd like to know what happened to pre-esport gaming tournaments, shit like Powerfest '94 or NWC yeah i know there were two new ones

I wish there were more vidya tournaments with different videogames rather than always the same 6 "balanced" games.

>>15701231

That really has nothing to do with that study and more to do with the fact gookclick, the most prolific esport, is more about pressing buttons really fast than it is about actually playing a game well.

>>15695912

>love a video game

>play it so much you're extremely good at it

>get bored of "playing normal"and try something fresh

<speedrunning if singleplayer

<competitive/pro if multiplayer

Is that such a mind boggling concept to you?

Everytime I see one of these "lol just play for fun!" posts I can't help but think you're a fucking casual that doesn't really play games.

>>15704949

Fun and e-sports aren't mutually exclusive you gigantic turd.

>>15705018

Spotted the cuckchan rapefugee

>>15714618

>>15715675

>competition makes you a faggot

What the fuck are you guys talking about. Esports arent sports that's for fucking sure, but it's still something you can be very good at, something you can be better st than other people. If you enjoy a game, and you have a drive to be better than everyone else at that game, then that's respectable (unless you let that stand in the way of something objectively more important). You're both fucking retarded if you think just playing something competitively makes you a bitch

>>15695904

>Fatal1ty

Literally who?

>>15718288

Quake 3 pro, has since faded into obscurity and struggles with modern "Team" games because your own skill is diluted due to the team effect and limited functionality design of the modern shooter

The "CoD lone Soldier" of FPS playing is pretty much dead at this point, Mechanical skill - Artificial player design skill limits - weed drugged team mates listening to Jpop on their streams = Modern FPS/MOBA in a nutshell

Hell most of the top 500 in Overwatch actually have less mechanical skill than most players in upper Platinum, they just know who to group up with/party in groups where everyone is actually trying to climb to the top

>>15720088

>Fatal1ty

Is he even anything compared to Cooller, Rapha, Cypher, Strenx and HAL 9000?

rapha at the moment is the best Quake player of America.

>>15720674

>underage quake signaling this hard

>>15677387

brick by brick

suck my dick

no matter how thick

no matter how thin

>>15681437

>The native Koreans/Japanese/Taiwanese/Chinese players are all pretty normal dudes.

Infiltration's disappeared since it came out that he beat the shit out of his wife.

>>15720678

>>15677387

PAPA TOLD MAMA

AND LAURA TOLD NICK

YOU CAN MOVE A MOUNTAIN

IF YOU FUCK IT WITH YOUR DICK

>>15701462

A lot of it was effectively competitive speedrunning.

>>15722400

>getting better at games and beating other people at them is not fun

>TORpedo

Tor should be disallowed, every TORnigger always posts the dumbest shit.

>>15701172

>chess is for men, video games are for boys

lol faggot

>>15722509

>implying he wasn't saying e-sports is played by girls

you must be new here

>>15668868 (OP)

>do you know anyone yourself who tried to "break through the 24 and over decline" wall to 'go pro'?

I know a guy who's over 30 and keeps talking about how he wants to become a professional gamer. He even moved out west so he can be closer to RIOT games.

I just don't understand people anymore.

>>15726274

That's the vidya equivalent of the 35 year old with a band. Pretty sad.

>>15668899

Ya living the dream raising some disgusting gooks child from another man.

>>15726274

I want to laugh, but this is so fucking sad.

>>15726274

I don't see what's wrong with that.

>>15729185

Nobody ever made music over 35.

>>15702071

>speedrunning on the same level as competitive play

lmao keep telling yourself that.

Being a pro gamer sounds like a really shitty existence, your hobby becomes your job and you get angry at what you loved just as you would at work. It's worse than having your dad as your boss. You come home from work decide to enjoy yourself, only to realize that you're doing the same exact thing you did working. There's no escape anymore.

>>15720747

cooller has went pro in both Overwatch and Quake Champions from what i have heard. Not sure which game he is at now.

>>15727974

if we can transmit the old culture to the young we can bypass the mass market. try getting console users you know the get old pos and buy them old steam games. for the price of a new fan and six bucks on steam you can give them so much. make a new hardcore gamer today.

>>15677387

NOOOOOOOOOOO

>there are anons ITT who are seriously saying that esports are a fun and good thing

What has happened to this board?

On-topic, though, I think most pre-streamer pros have gone on to either kill themselves or play the game more casually on streams, as other anons have mentioned.

>>15727974

What a diverse, woke bunch of devs

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