This is great.

How dare you all talk down to this UGC Gold legend?

The amount of misconception (and buzzwords) in this thread is blowing my mind.

Zowie + CEVO pls.

The benefit for lower players has been, and always will be, to improve. You don't get better winning UGC _____ 5 times in a row, just as you don't get better cashing in an Open check four seasons straight. You get better playing against better teams.

Now, given that the actual cost for a season of ESEA is something like $30-40, paying half of that to drive yourself and others to win really isn't that much of a stretch, is it? And if you don't think you can compete in CEVO/ESEA Open, then why play there in the first place? Either you want the competition, or you don't, is what it comes down to.

Not sure how that's different from ESEA...

The only other benefit we got were provided servers, which were good an bad: good when they weren't all booked and did't have ping/dc/etc issues, but bad when they did.

Tonight, on In This Thread!

• Nahanni and CEVO ask how much money people want to pay for video games
  
• People say "not much"
  
• SLIN indirectly voices his support for ESEA and/or pleasuring lpkane's butt

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Seriously though, what's all the fuss? CEVO has stated time and again that this league is not part of their business model; they make all of their money through their actual business.

Given that, this isn't "market research" because they're not selling anything, they're funding a prize pool for the players. As others have mentioned here and there, this poll is essentially asking how much people would donate to a prize pot. Not really sure what's missing there.

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but I'm assuming you have a video card: is the monitor plugged into the video card, or the motherboard? If you have a video card then the motherboard won't output anything, something I overlooked on my first PC.

I don't have a picture but Michigan looks about the same as all this.

Edit: Turns out my girlfriend has a picture:

http://i.imgur.com/8vCPpg1.jpg

I really liked it, just a couple of things that didn't sit well with me:

• As everyone else said, the coloring was sometimes too much; having off colors is pretty cool, but personally I prefer it when it's just during a smooth or something, not in a first person perspective.
  
• I do enjoy when movies are synced up with their music, but there was a bit too much stuttering for me in some places.
  
• The last little nitpicky thing was that (and I could be wrong, only watched it once) I noticed in one early frag you had a white flash after a kill, but didn't really use it after that (even in the same clip)? Just seemed a bit out of place.

How much will it take for you to cut Phrakture? My pay day is Thursday so I need to know by then.

They did say it's full-screen only, and it is still in beta so they might add more functionality, or even add support for existing streaming software somehow.

Not sure if this was posted already, but nvidia just added beta twitch streaming to their GeForce Shadowplay stuff (it previously just recorded to disk). The video card will be directly pushing up frames, which should drastically improve performance. I believe it only works on GeForce 6/700 series cards.

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