Professional Gamers

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:36 pm

Well, I recently got into a game with LiL Poison and his dad in Team Slayer.

Link to Game : [Click]

My GamerTag is XiL Destruction
Both of them added me to their friends lists.

So, that brought up some curiosity. Who here at halomods have played with pros? If you have, which ones?

Hope to see many replies!

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:39 pm

I fail to find any reason why they should garner any more respect than anyone else. "Professional gamers" are just players as any other. Who cares?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:42 pm

lol, "professional" gamers.

blade22222222 · Post by **blade22222222** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:49 pm

ive played against the ogre twins in halo 2 before

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:52 pm

So? Who cares who you are matched with. A gamer is a gamer, nothing more than that.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:02 pm

Tural wrote:I fail to find any reason why they should garner any more respect than anyone else. "Professional gamers" are just players as any other. Who cares?

They make money, they have sponsors, etc.

GametagAeonFlux wrote:lol, "professional" gamers.

How are they any different than professional basketball players or professional baseball players, etc?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:15 pm

DrXThirst wrote:
GametagAeonFlux wrote:lol, "professional" gamers.
How are they any different than professional basketball players or professional baseball players, etc?

People respect athletes.

Dojorkan · Post by **Dojorkan** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:15 pm

lol who cares?

Now playing against Bungie Staff is more interesting.

GametagAeonFlux wrote:
DrXThirst wrote:
GametagAeonFlux wrote:lol, "professional" gamers.
How are they any different than professional basketball players or professional baseball players, etc?
People respect athletes.

Srsly, I don't even like Sports and I have much more respect for an athlete then someone who presses buttons on a controller- unless they are flying an airplane.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:22 pm

DrXThirst wrote:
Tural wrote:I fail to find any reason why they should garner any more respect than anyone else. "Professional gamers" are just players as any other. Who cares?
They make money, they have sponsors, etc.

GametagAeonFlux wrote:lol, "professional" gamers.
How are they any different than professional basketball players or professional baseball players, etc?

So? Again, who cares? They do, and other people who claim to be "pro" do. That's it. Outside of that ring, their title has no importance. It impacts nothing.

They just are. It is just different. There isn't an explanation, that's just the way it is. Get over trying to downplay the unimportance by reasoning it out. There isn't reason. It just is.

Dojorkan wrote:Now playing against Bungie Staff is more interesting.

:3

L0d3x · Post by **L0d3x** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:31 pm

Yeah for some reason 'pro gamers' don't really float my boat, though I admit my boat has leaks.

I can't see them getting the same amount of respect a basketball player deserves. I'm place pro gaming under the 'bar' sports like darts and stuff since it doesn't really require any kind of physical condition. It's an athletes physical condition that deserves respect.

Look at cycling, that is one of the most exhausting sports out there. And I love it.

Dstin1 · Post by **Dstin1** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:38 pm

L0d3x wrote: Look at cycling, that is one of the most exhausting sports out there. And I love it.

I love you.

-Legendary- · Post by **-Legendary-** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:39 pm

It's just, I don't know.. Like many players (After the whole MLG thing) go around claiming they can own you and calling you BK (bad kid..) and random,like they want to be all good, because they think they are all good and stuff, (aahh so hard to explain) I mean I know the pro gamers are good, it's just they act like they are a WHOLE 500 steps ahead of you. Idk to hard to explain.

it's like A Pro Basketball player or something, would be much harder to do, or to get to.
This doesn't really make to much sense..

But I have played with Shockwave.

L0d3x · Post by **L0d3x** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:16 pm

Ow I thought BK was 'burger king'...
I remember playing against the ogre twines once, they were betraying the whole time (they were on the other team)...

Next game they were on my team and said: if you don't give me the rocket I'm gonna betray you guys...well he got his rocket and all was well I guess.

And yes it is rather funny when little boys start yelling at you if you're beating them. Especially when they want to go all 1 on 1.

Truly lollable.

patchesreusch · Post by **patchesreusch** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:30 pm

gh057ayame i played with a couple times but i played mm with him and he wouldn't try till the end of the game so i never played with him
im not going to try and find the game because it was almost two years ag on a different live account
Edit: you are saying they are no better than any other pro or not
professional means they do it for a living so they are no better just they waste more time playing video games

drinki · Post by **drinki** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:09 pm

yeh knowonw realy gives a fuck who they are, maybe they are better tan some others, but that does not dignify them any differnt from any other game becase they can just puch buttons. i played with justcallmegod, it was cool when we played, becuase host always left the game for somereason

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:44 pm

Are you American? If so, your English sucks. If not, I understand what you are saying.

Either way, I think this is ridiculous how many people laugh at their occupation. Should I change the thread to "Have you played with a Bungie Employee?"

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:48 pm

We're not permitted opinions on their "occupation"?

OwnZ joO · Post by **OwnZ joO** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:11 pm

I think that professional gaming is a good profession. The time and practice they have to put into it is outrageous. I mean not all of them play all the time any more, but I bet if you added up the hours they've played you would be amazed at their dedication and work they've put in. Most professional gamers are a lot of steps ahead, but they're just little steps that when you add them up create a big gap. Keep in mind I wrestle, which is also one of the most exhausting sports there is, and I still respect professional gamers, why should professional athletes get respect and not gamers, they all have put in lots of time, and most of them had talent to begin with.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:15 pm

Because that's not the way our culture is. We see video games as just video games. They aren't a sport, and they won't be taken seriously as a profession. In a perfect world, yes, we'd see their dedication. However, this isn't a perfect world, and everything isn't objective. That's just the way it is.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:19 pm

OwnZ joO wrote:why should professional athletes get respect and not gamers

Because an 11 year old can't become a professional athlete.