All I'm waiting on now is for you to say you're our fucking commander and that's why we should take your word as gospel.

Are you even trying anymore?

Holy fuck. I didn't think anyone actually thought like this. I don't care what skill level you are, that's completely retarded and ass-backwards. I need to make this post regardless of whether or not people agree with me or the content in it.

Knowing the Superbowl and football teams are a thing != watching the Superbowl and following football. People even in other video game communities know we're a thing, but most people end up laughing at the fact that TF2 is still alive, let alone played competitively. This is also retarded because you're comparing one of the largest sporting events in America to this super-niche group of the people who still play TF2. That's not fair to anyone.

Yes. Exactly that. Surprise! People compete for not only profit, but for FUN. Name one athlete who plays the sport of his or her choice JUST because it's a well-paying gig. I remember when the mathackers were just getting into 6s, everyone played because they were enjoying themselves and later had dreams of making it big in this small subset of the TF2 community (STA CHAMPIONS). Look at Harbl now: a grand goddamn world champion of TF2 (and wearing a dog collar don't really approve of that too much but that's his decision I hope).

Man them's some rose-tinted glasses. #tf2mix and #pug.na in their current forms are bloody awful. The former is filled with new players looking to hone their balls to someday jump from Open to Invite by a magic pickup who end up getting stomped by puglords and the latter is a shell of what it used to be. I don't even have to bring up how idiotic MGE is with not one but BOTH alt retardation incidents where people use it more for a glory generator than a DM device. Inhouses are almost always for fun and on a whim unless you have "that guy" in your circlejerk who treats every last instance of TF2 to be a life or death scenario. Bball is the closest thing to competition in MGE, Ultiduo outside of MGE.

There isn't any fuckin' money in TF2. I'm honestly astonished that you of all people either don't know this or don't acknowledge it. We have no sponsors. That prize money also comes from user payments to ESEA too, if you remember. Besides, for the money that we all waste in ESEA with the constant hiccups there could be even just monthly private tournaments like Quake has, winning team takes all. The pressure of a monetary prize is still there, and you don't "need" ESEA.

"The day I don't go to LAN is the day I quit TF2" or something to that extent. That's the shit that makes people believe in the misconception of LAN just being a user-funded vacation for the top Invite teams, regardless of whether or not the line was meant in jest.

Jesus.

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That's because Robin Walker is part of the "interactive movie" generation and would rather see a big explosion on his screen with the words "GOOD JOB" in gigantic neon green comic sans plastered across his screen for holding your mouse button down idly rather than actually PLAY a game.

Honestly I'd rather just not play than have to suffer under a developer who believes that giving people reward without risk or effort is the definition of skill-based gameplay for a team based arena shooter.

quoth conductor,

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Money is powerful but I'm PRETTY SURE people still play the husk that was once TF2 purely because they like playing 6s. Although recently people have been making me question otherwise.

Once again, this kind of thread has already come full circle. Someone speaks up about some aspect of the community being borked, people agree, lots of big posts are made and at the end of the day nothing is done. Let's talk about the reality.

We're not exactly gonna make a dedicated yearly TF2 LAN happen if a majority do decide to drop from ESEA because I swear half of you people hate and shittalk each other for the most inane and old-as-dirt fucking reasons, circlejerks notwithstanding. I can talk and talk about how balls-retarded it is to actually hold a legitimate grudge against someone in this tiny-ass community unless the person in question is a 100% irredeemable vitrolic sleazeball or a mouthbreathing retard with an ego larger than three Junes, but the point I'm trying to make is that unless a large-enough group with time, money, cohesion, and motivation comes along, a new LAN without ESEA would probably not happen. If it did, it would take time.

If the majority do decide to leave ESEA, the most realistic thing I can imagine concerning that majority would be a disapora in which we'll all populate the smaller leagues that remain + ETF2L if their NA division becomes a tangible reality. There's no money in TF2 - it's all us. For the money we put into ESEA, we could do our own thing and probably have a lot more fun doing it, but I guess that's more a pipe dream than anything else.

Life goes on.

The general consensus is that it would take a lot of planning to organize a LAN not held by ESEA in NA. So why not just fucking go ahead and put in a lot of planning? We're already at the point where relying on ESEA is already a laughable idea, putting a year or two into brainstorming our own LAN is by far a better option.

shut the fuck up fapn

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Man I love this thing

idgi

where's the comedy

C&C '95 MOTHERFUCKER
PUT THAT SHIT IN YOUR PC RIGHT NOW

I had this problem before. No one knew what caused it, and it kinda just fixed itself after a TF2 update.

TREY 4 LYFE
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