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at this point i think i'm going to because I don't know that any of the people online at the times I post have any redeeming features i miss spuf

it's more like you guys don't even seem to understand the concept that you could be wrong so it's just a waste of words

On the whole the changes are good although adding more rng to the game (the amby rework) is dumb and mentioning equip rates just triggers me needlessly. But they've finally worked out how to think about balance changes more or less correctly. I have a feeling the semi-decent players among the tf team have finally managed to convince the potatoes to stop making changes just because they 'seem fun' and are now prioritising the overall health of the game much more highly. Razorback and dds changes are a highlight imo, both are really good. Side note, if this were old spuf i'd be flaming quite a few of the posters from the last day or so because of your dumb opinions but i don't really see the point here and now. Most of the people i know are saying at least semi-intelligent things so it's whatever.

It literally contradicted everything I was responding to. You contended that professional esports had a 'cold and calculated' approach due to sponsors -- I showed why that's bullshit -- and now you're asking me what the point of the paragraph was? I retract that word after reading this response. Good competitive, skill-based games with a bunch of depth and incredibly dedicated competitive scenes should be supported as such. The two best examples are smash and tf2, and you can see what happened there.

which leads back to what I said before. If high level players in an incredibly skilled game have no way of earning any remuneration for the thousands or tens of thousands of hours of practice they've put in, then what is the point of them playing in the first place? It's fun up until you're showing up to work tired or late because you had scrims the night before after hours of fundamentals training. Competitive scenes without proper monetary support artificially limit the skill the highest level players can show, in the best case, and in the worst case they lead to high level players simply not being that high level because once you've won the highest division once or in the case of australia's team immunity for tf2 ten times, the game starts to get a bit stale and the players start leaving. Remember that these games are usually played worldwide in multiple regions as well, and without developer support for competition the highest level teams in each region don't have a chance to play each other in a fair manner. High level players for any game have a genuine love and deep investment to the game, otherwise they wouldn't have put in the time to be high level, so that can be discarded entirely. Players express their passion after winning any tournament. In fact, any corporate sponsors for games where players react like robots after winning thousands or millions of dollars would probably find themselves rethinking their investment at some point -- if the players don't care, who will? This bit actually says something relevant but it's not accurate for all games. All csgo tournaments are hosted by private companies (either third party organisers like ESL or Valve themselves for the Majors) and they're perfectly happy to encourage a bit of shittalking. They went through a phase where they thought they might have a chance at becoming a family show but that's laughable in a game about planting bombs and killing terrorists so it became a massive meme. This sentence might hold some truth for league or dota but pretty much no other game. And don't insult my reading comprehension, it's probably a lot better than yours.

who are you he hates esports and only likes watching amateur competitive players shittalking each other incredibly lame attitude but whatever

this offends me on a primal level as a (former) competitive tf2 player basically you want to be able to watch an esport without the players getting any of the remuneration they deserve from being at the top of a highly competitive and incredibly skilled game while I don't follow smash at all, I can tell you that the reason the competitive community doesn't like the changes you were describing is because either they decrease the skill based nature of the game, or in the case of the Project M mod because it increases the barrier of entry to an already small scene. and if the most important aspect of watching video games to you is seeing people shittalk each other maybe you should find some other hobby

I'm really not original so my profile pic is an anime girl

the most egregious abusers of greenlight made lots of shitty games, the new system dissuades them at least

you can tell it's really me because i've already pissed off at least 5 people

No, you aren't. The big news is always just console shit and games I'll never play. I watched good game's e3 special once or twice and that was ok but that's only because they went around all the booths and actually played some interesting lesser known games/got some semi-decent interviews with devs. rip good game :(

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every hero requires a high skilled team with decent communication to be used for their full potential sombra still fucking owns in solo queue if you're any good at her though. On some maps she's brokenly good (2cp, particularly 2nd point defense, and everywhere on volskaya) and you should just always run her, but she's still absolutely fine on most other maps. Even if there aren't any good health packs for you to hack sombra still does a decent amount of damage, melts through shields, hard counters half the dive heroes in the game and gets her ult up really often.

well if you don't like flaming and you allow racist posts then you should probably just ban me now because i'm always going to flame idiots who post things like that

trying to learn sombra on my diamond dps account have lost many games because people think she's bad and make dumb hero switches or actively throw feelsbadman

I did not bump an 8 month old post. I responded to a thread that had been bumped a few hours beforehand. I'm just shocked that the blatant racism has been allowed to stay.

a ridiculously racist sentence on the last page of a recently bumped thread caught my eye i don't know how you fail to be ashamed of the ridiculous things you are espousing but no one takes bullshit like that seriously anymore unless you're posting on breitbart or something rofl

this sentence makes no sense if you want to screw around that's fine but you have no right to tell other people off for taking a competitive game seriously it's very very easy to stomp pubs you hardly have to be a premiership division gamer with 10 years experience under your belt. Obviously high level players occasionally play pubs but the skill level and attitude that is commonly associated with 'pub stomping' is much lower and much more toxic than your average competitive player's.

Hispanics are american. African americans are american. Asian americans are american. Everyone born in and who grew up in America is American unless they make a concerted effort to not be (by moving to a different country and living there for years, for example). Ethnicity is irrelevant. It doesn't matter whether you're black, yellow, white, whatever, if you've grown up in a culture you become part of it. Pretending otherwise is blatantly discriminatory and because the discrimination is due to ethnicity, it's racist. The rest of your opinion seems to follow from that idiocy so is probably worthless. But it's okay because you said I can agree or disagree, so you welcome me posting but are never going to change your mind no matter how terrible your argument is shown to be. I've come across many people like you before so I know it's not worth my time to even read your essays on why trying to push society back hundreds of years is such a good ideology to hold, let alone bother responding to them. Yeah sorry about the 8 month delay, I would have posted then but I wasn't a part of this forum...

What the fuck is this racist tripe

Good article. I feel a similar way about the end of spuf. I mean, I've been angry at valve for years because of how they ran tf2 into the ground but this just takes the cake.

'e-sport types' don't play pubs in the first place because it's a low skill shitfest Those aren't cheaters, they're just slightly less incompetent than your average pubber.

toge is cool so you're probably cool too hi

re pinion it still exists but valve cracked down on it a while ago and it's really easy to block now, i never see pinion ads because i blocked them through the hosts file, so it probably wouldn't be worth it anyway