People get paid tens of millions of dollars every year just to chase a ball around in a field of grass and put it into the designated scoring area.... enough said.
@AceMarine45 Horse riding, car racing, shooting, bowls, curling, snooker, bridge, arm wrestling, toe wrestling, wife carrying, bog snorkeling and chess are all recognized sports. It is all semantics anyway, at the end of the day, if it's called e-sports or competitive gaming, it's still the same thing. if you don't like it, don't watch it. Go and watch muscular men in tight shorts run into each other and chase a ball.
We live in a world where American congress can classify pizza as a vegetable, and you care that video games are considered a competitive sport?
You can have whatever opinion you like on the subject, but call a dog turd roses and it still smells like $#!t.
YAY! give a promotion to the guy who said "To make this successful and terrifying sci-fi horror franchise more scary, let's add co-op and make the player fight space marines". I'm usually the guy who believes that we should wait until we see the finished product before we judge it, but this is just stupid.
Piranha Bytes has reached a place similar to Bethesda in my eyes, their games are crippled with bugs which somehow make them more endearing to me (minus those obvious game breakers, multiple saves people, multiple saves). Risen 1 had a feeling of exploration which felt so much more rewarding than any game before it, the dorky voice acting brings a smirk to my face and the no hand-holding policy makes the games feel more organic than those which opt for quest markers and glowing items. Just bought this the other day and can't wait to start exploring.
They have every right to take as much of a percentage as they like because you are selling a digital item that they created. Who cares anyway, you can make money from playing the game! If you don't like it, don't use it. Personally I will not use it at all, except if i get tired of the game and decide to sell all my gear and put the money towards heart of the swarm. Still... That said... it just kind of feels a bit dirty doesn't it..?
Some people hear scathingly vicious gamers with an un-deserved sense of entitlement, but all I hear are the pathetic cries of some very sad and helpless people. Those who say horrible things like this to strangers on the internet learned that behavior from somewhere, and I’ll hazard a guess as to where. They are simply reflecting the negativity that is cast upon them in their everyday lives from the safety of the internet and its veil of anonymity. The internet and video games are the only places where these people feel powerful, which is why the thought of skipping combat infuriates them so much; it would remove their power fantasy from the game. A reasonable, mature and balanced individual would simply state their conflicting opinions and attempt to engage in a rational and productive dialogue. Don’t feed the trolls, pity them.
I just don't get the outrage; subscription fees are far more outrageous than an optional auction house feature. If there are people in this world who want to buy digital items, then there are people who will sell them, regardless of whether there is integrated auction functionality or not. Blizzard has basically embedded a big red button in their game that says 'click here to give us Money' and if you're stupid enough to click it, you deserve to lose your cash. There are plenty of tangible objects in the real world that you don’t want, so if you disagree with the concept of paying real world money for a digital sword, just treat it like a Justin Bieber CD and don’t buy it, problem solved.
@a1450358509 The starcraft player EGincontroL is shacked up with Anna Prosser, aka Miss Oregon... a supermodel. Not to mention the almost exclusively female fan clubs of the Korean players which number in the tens of thousands of members. If you believe that video games will be an obstacle between you and getting laid, chances are the problem isn't the video games. I'm not trying to burn you, but let's face it, if you post on this site, you're a nerd just like me, but If some girl said to me "oh my god, you're a loser because you play videogames for a living", i would say to them, "imagine if someone offered to pay you to buy shoes for a living". then i would go and find a girl who wasn't shallow.
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