Pro Gaming... and PPV?

6 figures??

i hope thats in peso's

youve got to be fucking kidding me

this guy better have the charisma of the Rock or some shit
cuz theres no way in hell anyone deserves 6 figures for playing a computer game

I know this shit will start to get out of hand when I say a computer geek on the cover of a cerial box.
Imagine the damage a computer geek could do if he became really good at a game and went pro, then changed his real life name to Jeff K and started really acting like the stereotype, except in real life, and pro gaming became mainstream america entertainment. GOOD HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN NO! I can just see little kids being advertised to by Nike with ads that say "I wanna be like mike JeffK!"

I can see the board meeting on this.

"What's the demographic that watches this?"
"Hoards of slavering self-professed geeks that blow all their money on hardware and are used to watching the best matches for free."
"Hmmm... put it on pay per view."

I've met Fatality, he's a nice enough guy and more power to him for landing a sponsorship doing this shit. Anyone remember a Korean player that came to the CPL a while back under the callsign PowerK? He was sponsored for 30000 per year salary, had a translator, coach, and (I think) a publicist with him at all times, and had to split all his winnings with his sponsor company.

I knew this wasn't far off for American companies, but I didn't expect it AFTER the whole .com crash... and I sure as think PPV will fly like a concrete kite. They shoulda started on ESPN and worked up to PPV. Suits = cluelessly optimistic on the weirdest shit. You can look at it this way though: Fatality is proving for once that it doesn't always have to be the suits fleecing the geek, sometimes it can go the other way. BLEED EM FATALITY!

and then they'll try to sell the demo of the match. Pay Per Download.
What poor bastards are these that they need this kind of money?And if it's not for the money then why ppv? Don't they know they're not being nice?

Maybe a big brand/company could use him to advertise a variety of stuff to a niche market: computer things, but also snacks and drinks.

it would be fun to watch if it was quake 1 right? Those are the ONLY demos truly worth a fuck.

Considering the amount of time I've invested into trying to watch the big tourneys online, and generally being unsucessful, I think I'll watch this PPV event and then wipe the charges from my dss card

who was the fucking moron who thought this idea up?

very limited audience, very low public awarness, very low intrest, oh yeah...its something that really isint all the fun to watch, and thoes who want to watch it have an unlimited free supply of content to view.

They wont make back their production costs. Anyways I thought the cable companies had a guaranteed minimum of people who would buy it before they would even air it.

If WWF can have PPV...why not something real ;)

<Simpsons Comic Store Voice>
Worst.. concept.. ever.
</Simpsons Comic Store Voice>

//Apoc

Pvp video games is the thing that is pretty lame. The matches you see on public servers are way better and they are free and YOU GET TO PLAY TOO.

6 figs for playing games, good for him but enjoy it while you can, all this is, is a dot com ride that leads to failure.

Screw you steve! You don't have to make fun... I'd like to see the match. >:(

This could be interesting. I wish there was some way they could make the games High Res instead of how the players play it.

S.M.

fatality gettin paid 6 figures to play a fuckin game? BULLSHIT!

when will this "pro gaming" crap go away?

"''They have curling up in Canada and they call that a sport, so why not?'' he said."

Hey....

PPV for gaming..? ROFLMAO! Yes, I want to pay to watch some geek named Fatality play a game.. NOT!

Who would pay to see that??

I think I'll be washing my goat that night...

Well well well... ppv gaming huh? Hey, if they can make it work, power to em. Personally I think this thing is going to crater harder than... well its going to crater hard.

I might pay to see Fatality...



...get on a treadmill.

hahahah. ppv for video gaming? rofl. what a waste of time, talent and bandwidth.

Next.

What game would he play on the pay per view?

You made a typo! You said Pay Per View. That can't be right.

Yeah, "MORE OVER NFL STARS!" Sorry, I'm anal about that type of thing.

Pro gaming has a scary similarity to the movie Baseketball... any ordinary person can do it and be good at it... and apparently get paid some mad bling-bling

This is a great idea...







... for me to poop on...

One thing I've been thinking about regarding televising games (no, I don't think PPV will work as yet) is the problem that all "pro" players play with all graphics options off so they can see better. That's a show-stopper, in my opinion. Casual gamers and others won't watch a game that not only may seem hard to follow but also looks like crap.

So one thing organizers could definitely mandate for televised tourney games is that all players must play with graphics settings maxed (or something like that). That way, viewers can see the games in all their graphical glory--a fact I think would attract more potential viewers. And the playing field would remain level.

Seriously, I have what it takes to compete. I know alot of others out there do. Does anyone else get excited to hear that this kind of thing might just be a reality soon?? Maybe i can earn enuf dough fragging faggots to replace this dying monitor of mine. Or better yet, my beat up Benz.

Pay-Per-View?! Fuck that, they should just start broadcasting tournaments and matches on ESPN or ESPN2. I mean hell, they show those pool tournaments, games would be more entertaining than that.

Posts #rd 2-5 and 10 are gone. Nuked?

You forgot to pimp ShackES!