The EGTV Show: How To Be A Pro-Gamer Pt. 1

Published 23 July, 2011 Duration 8:25

Inside Team Dignitas.

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  • Ultrasoundwave #1 10 months ago

    Playing games as a career is the dream, but im scared to think just how much of their time these guys are spending playing games......?

  • SteelPriest #2 10 months ago

    Are they called team dignitas cos they make their enemies want to take a trip to the swiss suicide clinic?

  • beatwolf #3 10 months ago

    which fucking red button???

  • mukki #4 10 months ago

    ah yes the infamous red button errr someone forgot to put it in :)

  • Phishfood #5 10 months ago

    I once considered playing games as a career but then I thought "well if I do that then what am I going to do for fun?"

    and so I decided it was a bad life choice anyway, a shame too because I was beastly at Unreal Tournament 2004 Onslaught.

  • GrizzleBoy #6 10 months ago

    I expected to watch this video and see some people I would be envious of.

    I didn't.

  • chrisola #7 10 months ago

    only pro's play street fighter with a keyboard

  • Kanjin #8 10 months ago

    The red button... some kind of mind game! .... I give up.

  • JadedSoul #9 10 months ago

    Post deleted at 08:10:55 26-04-2012

  • paulf #10 10 months ago

    once it's a job does it stop being fun?

  • CaptainQuint #11 10 months ago

    I wish Minkley would stop with the Robert Peston impression. His being the most irritating reporting style on telly.

  • L0cky #12 10 months ago

    @Phishfood - I once considered playing games as a career but then I thought "well if I do that then what am I going to do for fun?"

    What you said may sound strange to some people; but it's a well known phenomena, quite often experienced by people in creative lines of work.

    When something you had previously been doing for the enjoyment is now being done for financial reward, it can suddenly stop being fun. Wikipedia: Overjustification effect.

  • butler` #13 10 months ago

    I once considered playing games as a career but then I thought "well if I do that then what am I going to do for fun?"

    Depending on how much you want to think about it, it's pretty flawed well beyond that statement. Perhaps one of the biggest problems is developer support. No one cares about eSports except Blizzard, a few small time devs, and Valve at a push. Games come and go and unless your chosen game has yearly iterations or guaranteed sequels with very similar mechanics, there's a chance that in 4-5 years time you're going to wake up and think "wtf did i just do for 5 years?"

    And that was always my biggest problem with it. A lot of the top end gamers I've played with are usually very bright. Imagine what they could achieve if they spent 4-5 years applying themselves to a solid degree, or a profession? These are men in their early 20s we're talking about... And in tens years - while I wouldn't want to make assumptions - what position do you imagine they'll be in then?

    I don't think "I'm world number 3 at UT2k15" is going to help with a mortgage application.

  • P1GEONPOO #14 10 months ago

    Smashed his knee then drove home? I wish I was that hard.

  • O11Y #15 10 months ago

    the stop button is red...

  • DavidSebb #16 10 months ago

    When is part2 coming ?

  • B1G_D #17 10 months ago

    Doing the same thing over and over and over and over again. Sounds like any other job i.e. bollocks

  • G-Lord #18 10 months ago

    Team Dignitas.
    That name always reminds me of an organisation for assisted suicide we have here in Switzerland...
    http://www.dignitas.ch/index.php?lang=en

  • tossum #19 10 months ago

    Lady Gaga T shirt there Minkley?

  • abzddon #20 10 months ago

    Lies! Pressing the red button isn't simple at all. It doesn't exist. Or does it?

  • Jamiesan #21 10 months ago

    Do not try to push the Red Button, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realise the truth.

    ...Then you'll see it is not the Red Button you press, but yourself.

  • Bluetooth #22 10 months ago

    If people like him can get a wife and kids, there is hope for anyone

  • rawtheory #23 10 months ago

    Its so funny to me that every time a pro starcraft gamer article comes out on a mainstream gaming site all the bitchy nerds ensue trash talking about these guys that choose to do this for a living. You people are the lamest hypocrites I can think of. You spent hundreds of dollars of your own money to play games and no one in the world could care less. When the world starts playing attention to gamers that've dared to take their love for games out of the exclusively "for fun" category, the truly disgusting underbelly of the gaming culture starts to rear its tunnel-visioned drooling head. Do us thinking gamers a favor and jam it back into the sand will ya.

  • Climhazzard #24 10 months ago

    I used to play Halo in a lot of online tournaments and had a good bunch of guys in my team but i got to the point where i wasn't enjoying gaming so i can understand some of the previous comments made. i also have a knack for being able to pick up any game and get good pretty quickly but i now dont have the time to play so much so tend to stick to playing just a few different titles, usually online with a few friends. Wouldn't mind entering some minor tournies just to see how i get on but doubt it would go very well lol

  • graysonavich #25 10 months ago

    Love a bit of com_maxfps 125

  • N1hilism #26 10 months ago

    wooow team dignitas