Pro Gamer Compounds - JonTron
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This is so far way from everything I used to love about gaming.
It reminds me me of the dot com bubble, when venture capital funds were throwing money at e-businesses that built lavish offices with extravagant amenities despite lacking even a hint of a profitable business model.
If this means an impending crash of the "gamer content" "industry," I'll be there to piss on the rubble.
It also reminds me of this line from Homer Simpson.
Reading this comment is like listening to old people in the UK talk about football - when the local team was a LOCAL team. As in, every player on the team lived locally.
One of my high school teachers had been a player for the local team in the 60's. If he'd been doing the same thing 20 years later, he would've been a multi-millionaire. Instead he was a teacher.
Was he mad that he was born too soon to make millions playing the game? Nope. Whenever one of us brought it up, he'd say 'I wouldn't want to play football the way it is today - I don't even watch it now, because it's not about the game any more. It's just about the money.'
Yep, this is me. I am unapologetically old and out of touch. THIS was my first game console, so it's safe to say I've experienced the history first hand.
There was no "gamer" identity then. My friends and I were just somewhat nerdy kids who loved to play video games. Games were made to make money, of course, but they were designed by people who loved making games, not by corporate boardrooms.
There wasn't this massive, corporate-sponsored meta-game industry that is trying to turn an inherently interactive type of media into yet another passive thing to consume.
There wasn't this corporate-curated, almost self-parodical "identity" that you're supposed to embrace so you can call yourself a "gamer."
It's the Las Vegas-fication of the hobby I used to love. It's a vapid, artificial image of the real thing, existing only to lure in into consooooooming more.
No, I am not a lot of fun at parties.
You have the exact same views I have on "gamer" culture.
I wouldn't say that's true. A gaming brand like 100 Thieves has access to the same sources of revenue as any traditional sports team. They can sell merchandise and tickets to fans (or collect fees from other entities that do so on the back of their brand), and they can sell visibility to sponsors. They've got a viable business model even if it's not as expansive a business as they want to believe.
That'd be like saying a lemonade stand has the same sources of revenue as Coke. A dependable or dependent customer base is part of a viable business model. Without a customer base you don't have a business, you just have unpaid expenses.
This crap? This couldn't make money if they tried. This is somebody's loss leader, just like newspapers are. The question is to what purpose.
> References Bill Gates buying farmland
Huh... JonTron seems pretty plugged in.
https://youtu.be/DXprqpEAk0c
Wow, they haven't whacked that video yet lol
That moment was downright cathartic. I'm sick of the feeling that all of the people who make videos I find fun would curse my very existence if they got so much as a whiff of my vaguely right-leaning politics, so the idea that there exists an exception to that rule is a relief.
Am I so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.
Rarely do I identify with a meme this much.
Honestly if nothing else I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing it just because that's what the Koreans are doing.
NA players have positively 0 creativity and just copy whatever the most successful region is doing.
edit: EU too, they both fucking suck.
To be fair 'just copy the people who are winning' is a pretty sound strategy. China's entire economy is based on it, and they're going to rule the world in 50 years or so.
edit: lol I'm stupid and forgot to mention what game I'm talking about, League of Legends. This whole comment is in the context of League of Legends, my bad.
Sure but NA players aren't going to beat Koreans at being grindy robots. That's what's annoying about it, back when I understood the game because it was actually worth playing, the way the Koreans played was really dumb, just they played their dumb strategies better than anyone else could. Instead of trying to adapt to counter how Koreans played they just copied them because like I said, NA players are completely incapable of thinking for themselves.
In the 2011-2013 era there was so much shit you could do with a lot of heroes/builds that no one used because they were too busy talking about how OP kAssadin was and shit. The entire community was just a huge circle jerk about insane shit that had very little bearing in the actual game.
Everyone basically had this idea that the top players of best regions were like these sages who just figured everything out and if you didn't just do what they did, you were bad. People would actually say shit like "if you don't see it in LCS, don't play it", and that's not even copying Koreans at that point, LCS was the NA circuit lol. Playing that game was like living in an intellectual dark age, at least irl you can find people who know which way's up if you know where to look.
I miss the days of building AP Sejuani mid and having my whole team raging at me and threatening to leave, then utterly destroying the lane because there's fucking nothing most mid picks can do against a wall of hitpoints that can just bully them into cowering under their tower.
I never played Sejuani but that is the kind of thing I was talking about and you mentioned specifically something that made so many characters broken that no one capitalized on because they didn't understand how to build: utilizing a superior health pool.
You remember those specialized jungle items that were like blue that built out of the jungle machete? The attack damage one that gave a true damage burn?
Mid Kha'Zix, that stupid blue true-damage burn thing (it gave like a stupid amount of AD for 2000 gold with some CDR and the burn) and a sunfire cloak. You could practically walk into people and auto/Q them down and they couldn't do shit to you, let along if you actually used your abilities intelligently.
That was around the 2013 era, was the best era imo. Looking it up Kha'Zix and Sejuani both came out in 2012 lol.
I bailed on the game some time in 2015. I've tried to go back once or twice since then, but it feels like Overwatch - overproduced. Full of changes that didn't need to be made, that nobody asked for.
That and the censoring of the female designs, holy shit.
Yeah their design philosophy is absolutely terrible. They basically made it as hard as possible to actually fight your opponent while emphasizing their gay objectives and wave clearing.
All the good heroes that were good at actually playing the game like a PvP game were nerfed into irrelevance or reworked and all their new champs after like 2014 were made that way by default.
It's probably the player's fault more than anything else, ever since active patching became a thing and people know devs will cave if there's enough pressure there's this prevailing culture of bitching about every little thing you don't like that everything interesting or impactful ends up sterilized until there's literally nothing to coherently complain about because everyone's so short of individual agency at that point.
Jontron talks about nothing good happening in compounds
Mentions and flashes up an image of Waco on fire.
I love this guy, but really why compounds? Why waste money on a building like that when you can do the smart thing that even Amouranth is doing and have a diverse portfolio so you aren't reliant on one source of income.
It's amazing how hideous all these manage to be. The Liquid/Alienware one seemed the best of the bunch from what little I saw, but the rest are just ew.
My "favorite" was the "castle" where the "gate" was made out of chainlink fence and a wall of TVs. Don't forget the neon lights! No castle is complete without neon lights ... and cat shaped sofas.
I mean sure, they're Americans who have likely never seen a castle in person but that's just ... what?
How can anyone watch this guy's videos? The compound is "neat," but I just can't watch this creator. He makes the actual original host look inoffensive.