How did it come to this?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPQHdyTNgxw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmI_Ndrxy14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX_IQkeXq9g

>>324295802
Videogames died after 2006

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8qJbEY6lo

You've outgrown vidya and are put off by the younger generation who are now finding different ways to enjoy it.

Doesn't league have a tournament going on right now? numbers always jump at times like this

>>324296929
But I mean how did we let these normie games take over?

>>324296897
I'm probably preaching to the wrong crowd, considering most people who go on /v/ are under 18.

>>324297010
It can be run on toasters
It's not complicated
Lots of people play it

So it got popular. Then people wanted to watch it

>>324297010
Is a game that takes thousands of hours to get good at a normie game? I mean, of course CS LOL and Hearthstone are, but DOTA is just popular.

>>324297010
...?

Oh, you actually watch games more than you play? Or do you want people to watch people playing games you like instead?

Sorry normie, I'm not from normieville so I don't understand your normie customs, but here on /v/, we'd rather play the game rather than watch other people play.

Please refrain from making a thread tomorrow asking why your favorite Let's Player is playing normie games or whatnot.

>>324297291
You definitely need a lot of hours to be good at CS. Sure, you can fuck around with 0 hours, but that applies to almost any game.

>>324295802
Casuals started showing interest in video games and the rest is history.

>>324297451
I mean, it takes like 500 hours to be top level though.

>>324297512
>dice rolling simulator
>top-level

Lol

Neo /v/, ladies and gents

Nigga just play your backlog and don't worry about what garbage normies are playing this month

>>324297617
You do know the first shot has no RNG, right?
If you don't headshot it's your fault.

If you don't reply to this your mom will die

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>>324297776
Actually, every first shot in the game has RNG, including the AWP.

>>324297835
i'm safe

>>324297776
>being this wrong

>>324297835
pls no

>>324297776
But that's wrong, you retard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rlCJ047Ds

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>>324295802
Undertale should be nr. 1 imo

this underrated game deserves it greatly

>>324297941
wtf is this I'm glad I stayed on Source

>>324295802

League has great waifus

>>324297776
>>324297941
>>324298045
>>324298113
Shit, just looked it up and saw that I'm wrong. Yeah, That is kind of a load of shit then.

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>>324297941
>>324298045
>>324298113
Fuck off

CS:GO is the greatest competitive game ever made

>>324298158
RNG spread is in every version of CS. 1.6 also has several different recoil patterns chosen, you guessed it, at random.

>>324297835
fuk u

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>>324298170
This t b h f a m

I love it when kids say lol is a casual game and only dota takes skill to play.

>>324297835
LEAVE HER ALONE

>>324298293
It boggles my mind how CSGO still has fucking hackers at the pro level and is considered an eSport.

>>324298293

CS 1.5 is better

Shields ruined everything forever

>>324297835
It's up to you to make /v/ a higher quality board

>>324296009
Why do they all cross their arms?

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>>324298543
Go back to reddit

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>>324297835

Safe

>>324298620

To show how badass they are ofcourse

>>324295802
league uses bots

>>324296696
The souls games came out after 2006

>>324297835
I already have immunity cat but hey

>>324296009
both are equally cringeworthy

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>>324297835
>tfw mom has terminal cancer
i don't think replying will help anon

>>324296009

Just imagine being one of these spaghetti tossers... One day your pretty much guaranteed to grow out of that retardation and realize how shameful and disappointing your life is... E-Sports suicides when?

>>324296696
being revived only by undertale

new gaming renaissance?

>>324295802
i don't understand how people like cs:go its so boring

>>324299134
stop this bait

>>324295802
Because PC MAYMAY GAYMING XDDD

>>324297835
Motherfucker

>>324295802
Serious question.

Why do Dota 2 players think their game is capable of competing with League of Legends? As far as numbers go, LoL is in an entirely different universe.

>>324298501
CS has always been a game for cheating casuals.

The cancerous Twitch generation are the only people that play this meme game.

>>324299329
http://www.esportsearnings.com/players

>>324296929
>>324297010
viewbots

>>324299329
more views on youtube doesn't equal to a better game

>>324299530
So it's entirely the esports dream?

Fascinating.

Only normies watch streams.

>>324297835

>>324297835
zsdf

>>324299329
>delusional lolbab

>>324295802
because those games and watching twitch streams are for normies now

>>324297835
Fight me

>>324299329
it's the same kind of publisher/developer fanboyism as with players who think modern sega games are good because their games were good in the 90s, people think valve games should be good just because it's by valve even if it's trash inferior to its competitors in every way like dota2

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>Why do people enjoy playing against each other more than playing against stupid poorly coded AI?

>>324295802
I'm trapped behind these walls.

Money.

It is simple. Those are the four highest paying multiplayer games on a professional level. Interest in "e-sports" has risen since the salad days of Korean Star Craft tournaments and Ramada ballroom Street Fighter tournaments. Hence these games have the highest "passive" viewership--I personally know people who only casual play LoL in comp stomp games or unranked normals, but watch LCS for hours on the weekend and keeps up with all the professional drama.

>>324299329
Been around for over twice as long
Better living for people who are actually good at it
Competitive scene not kept alive by Riot injecting money into it

It'll die eventually but it will die after LoL does, and it doesn't have to compete because league is to Dota what WoW is to, say, FFXI.

>>324297835
Oh shit

>>324297835
aaaaaaaargh

>>324295802
ESPORTS ARE CANCER
CANCER
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>>324299092
The oldest e-sports guy is 35 and making millions off branding alone, apparently more than most minor NFL players.

>>324296009
Is that fat kojima on the far left?

>>324299669
>>324300019
This, only got 1 casual friend and he's my only friend who watches streams/youtube reviews

>>324297835
meme

>>324299639
that's probably a lot more of it than you would imagine

>>324297835

Dont

>>324300030
What has John even been up to these days? What is he playing?

>>324297835
not cool man

>>324297835
nopr

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>>324295802
F2P is a bigger cash cow than you would like to admit.

>>324295802
>I don't like the games so they must be bad r-right?
:^)

>>324297835
That's bullshit, but I believe you

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I see this like the "x-treme" sports of the 90s. People will whine and moan about it not being sports and that the players in it will be too old and unfit for society eventually. All while not realizing the power of branding and commercial licensing.

>>324299803
I don't play MOBAs, just kinda curious.

But that's the kind of competitive hostility that prompted the question.

F2P + tournment prizes + esport faggotry + twitch undaged community + peer pressure from casual friends + bad games

>>324300435
this

>>324300435
Many top skaters are now old, unhealthy, lacking a career and suicidal.

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>>324295802
What's the point of this post?
Why do some of you people care so much what other people are playing/ what's popular?
Just play the games you enjoy, and ignore the fanbase, simple as that.

Fucking Christ.

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>>324297835

>>324297835
i love u mom

>>324295802
Most people feel the need to get some sense of long term progression from games they put time in regularly. Otherwise it feels like a waste of time. So people rather put a couple hundred hours into CS GO rather than into a few different single player RPGs.

The need for these kinds of games was recognized, and thus they were made, obviously as accessible as possible...

>>324295802
It's a shame that the pinnacle of competitive gaming is now the FGC. At least they haven't sold out.

I just want to go back to Korea time. Starcraft broodwar was the best esport we ever had.

>>324297835
ok

>>324300763
Because it goes outside of the internet too, its practically impossible to ignore it when its all around you anon

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>>324300179
Last i heard he was getting into COD:MW2 but I think he spends most of this time managing his company that puts his brand on shit like Monster Headphones.

>>324297182
Ah I never knew that. How did you find that out?

I have dedicated my life to becoming one of these e-sports celebrities. Come watch me succeed or die cold and alone trying at

twitch tv i0ki

>>324299519
pretty much this, there's this dumb nigger in at my college who spent over $500 on a virtual gun skin

>>324297293
No we don't. We rather talk about how games are too shitty to even be played anymore.

>>324300978
Look at the rest of the catalogue, it's not hard to put 2 and 2 together

>>324300602
Any examples?

Yourself perhaps?

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>>324297293
>implying /v/ plays video games

You need to get out.

What game would make you guys satisfied if it were popular?

>>324300179
Making bank off branding (even though we are coming up to a period where is achievements in gaming will be less known than his name on perceptively high quality computer components) and banging Asian models probably.

>>324297293
oh man this is a good im going to save this as a copy pasta to use on people

>>324300967
Hopefully when you heard that, it was 6 years ago.

>>324297835
im good im good

>>324300763
I enjoy playing games with friends, but all my friends are playing these games and I don't want to.

>>324301793
probably, I dont even remember the last time I've seen him in a tournament.

>>324300763
Normalfags kill fun video games and force the developers to casualise them even more by constantly complaining on reddit

>>324297835
ANON STOP

>>324296009
jesus what a cringe fest. such shitty animation, holy fuck. Iguess it goes well together with atrocious music like imagine dragons. I'm willing to bet that lol community loved those
Those dota profiles are fucking terible too, you can tell those people were forced to do that shit

>>324298620

Because they're all skinny nerds and it's the only "cool looking" pose they could possibly do.

>>324299889
>cause and effect
they didn't get big because of sponsorship, they got sponsorship because they were big

>>324302292
>forced
Nah, they pretty obviously thought it was "badass."

>>324302127
He doesn't care about tournamnets anymore, he makes shit ton of money off branding now.

>>324297835

wow what a rude thing to say...

>>324297835
mommy no

>>324300179
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9kZsiIArkU

>>324297835
whew

Does anyone have the video of that ridiculously cringey CSGO team intro thing where even the team themselves commented on how bad it was

So Twitch views matter now?

>>324297835
Good.

WAIT FUCK

>>324297835
fucker

>>324297835
everybody ends up dying anyway

>>324299857
because I like to crush plebeians like you

>>324297835
Hi

>>324297835

just to be safe.

>>324297182
Being 33, I have to agree with the anon you're replying to. A lot of people get jaded when things change and reject outright as a matter of principle.

Shit is just different now.

>>324297835
nope

>>324300019
>butthurt meathead
whats the issue? too complicated and you cant understand anything that doesnt involve a ball?

>>324297835
gotcha!

>>324297835

fuck