Why aren't you a pro tournament player yet, Sup Forums?

Why aren't you a pro tournament player yet, Sup Forums?

I'm not good and/or autistic enough to play videogames at pro level

I'm too autistic for team games and too shit for Starcraft. I'm also too shit for team games.

Training to be competitive in anything sucks the fun right out of that thing.

Because I'm not really into DotA clones or FPS.

I don't think I'd be happy with a career from competitive video games. I'd like to keep them as more a hobby.

I like video games too much to just limit myself to a single game for the rest of my life if I want to keep up with the people that do. I want to play all sorts of vidya, not just one for the rest of my life.

Poor kids thinking you can actually get into old boys club like esports

I’ve never had a desire to play games professionally. Seems stupid as fuck, like planning to be an all star athlete or rock star

Because going pro in a video game means it is no longer a game, it is work.

Old boys club? I'm pretty sure this isn't a life time career, they will be replaced by younger guys when they start to decline.

This comic doesn't even come close to tackling the ACTUAL difficulties of going pro, that spot where you actually play premades instead of stupid pubs.
Team politics and drama are just a whole new world of fuckery.

>Toxic Kids
>Bad teammates
Oh the irony.

I can't seem to get invested in multiplayer games

im too old

Off topic
Battlefront 2 or destiny 2

>school is an impedance

I sincerely hope these people turn their lives around

I play games for fun

t. played all sorts of FPS at a really high level even scrim teams etc then had an irl related nervous breakdown and realized that it had become nothing but a chore

Nobody should want to be a "pro gamer". I find it fucking stupid when people want to push other people into doing it as a "career"; there's not enough room or money for everyone who wants to do it and your reflexes will deteriorate with age and new, younger players will push you out. Sure that prize money looks impressive, except your teammates also take a cut and you have to pay taxes on the winnings like everyone else, provided that you actually win first place every single time, for cups that will only last for as long as a game is considered relevant, after which you'll have to get good at a completely new game. Unless you are truly, exceptionally gifted and not some kid with Dunning-Kruger you will probably be fine, but otherwise you'd still be depending on your parents and shilling yourself out on Twitch to edgy teens every day.

>School
>Mom grounding me from the PC
>Chores

MOOOOM I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS CRAP I'M TRYING TO BE A PRO GAMER

>A couple of my friends are actually trying to go pro
>They dropped everything else to do so
>They're hilariously bad and put all the blame on everything but themselves
They keep joining tourneys and losing right away and i keep wondering when will it dawn on them that they're not going to make it.

Because the NA csgo scene (esea) is the most cancerous pit of radioactive human waste I’ve ever encountered in gaming. Two seasons of main and I had enough of kids with egos the size of jupiter because they can play a fucking video game. Everything from the other players, the admins, and the forums, it all makes for what could be one of the worst online communities.

>caring about toxic kids
>playing a teamgame
>playing a team game
>not playing truant
Jesus christ I didnt want to be a pro and even I got shit done better than this little faggot

Because I'd rather do something that contributes to society even in a little way, also playing video games for fun is fun, playing video games for work is not

Because i prefer being no #1 in stats than being no #1 on the ranked ladder.

Would be nice to have both but most games have ranked decay and if i dont love the game i dont bother playing past the decay rank.

I was born in the wrong place.
In 2000. I was playing Quake 3 at the similar level that Fatality played at back than. Had a good group of people and we played everyday, in school at computer lab, after school in an internet caffe and at lan parties and at home. One of my best friends was and the best in among us was even better.
But we were all poor and all our money went into computers that can squeeze a few fps more.
Both the NA and Russian scenes were too far away for us.
Eventually we all stagnated and pros became much better at the game. I am embarrassed at how bad I am today when I play a few games on Quakelive.
Response times degraded, aim gotten worse, movement got a bit slower...

Best I have these fat American hands and I fuck up 41236, 236, and 9 when I play Guilty Gear

Destiny 2

If you're the rare kind of person with the ability and attitude to hone a single skill to a professional degree, and of all the fucking things you could do you choose to be good at a single videogame that will be relevant for at a maximum of 12 years, you deserve nothing but contempt.

The only professional gamer that deserves any kind of praise is the guy who developed Xfire, advertised it with his pro-gaming name, and then sold it to some chumps for $100+ million.

>Tfw watching someone you know try to become a pro gamer/youtuber/streamer and fail miserably after not putting any effort into it
I never get tired of it.

That's some cool ass rage comic there, derpina.
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