At what age did you grow out of your compfag phase?

>At what age did your test start dropping?

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The shit I say is so dumb that if someone managed to out retard me I'd instantly know they didn't bite my bait.
I don't actually say some shit that sounds reasonable, but if the team is losing slight provocations are enough for some people.

17
Still wasted good years where i should've been connecting with school friends and getting gf (12-17)

I hope competitive games get banned for minors they really ruin people's lives

i played dota 2

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This person would not want skill based MM in casual modes.

I grew up way before this shit took off, I remember the most esports in my life being quake tournaments they aired on g4 and just thinking "Thats pretty neat"

The person that made this is a retard looking for a boogeyman
>Ladder is a skinnerbox
This term is exclusively used by poor people that are angry about people with money spending it on MTX and shit, 95% of the people that use that term don't even realize every single video game ever made is a skinner box is you apply the term broadly enough

>I don't think esport players as idols, but as victims.
Yes its really sad that someone is forced into playing comp game that they don't even like anymore cause they got tricked into it during their teenage years when your brain has highest neuroplasticity instead of getting REAL skills

I see 20-25yo wagies streaming on twitch with 40 viewers sticking to one game trying to get into comp not realising it's the reason their life has gone to shit and they continue coping by playing the game over and over again even though they don't like it

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I could never picture playing a game as job, sounds horribly tedious with absolutely no job security whatsoever.

>all the compfags triggered by op image

Hit a little too close to home, fags?

Yes just look even at highest paid players they don't look happy they just look broken

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never had one because i could never keep up even in my own youth and now zoomers are pretty much inhuman

20 dollar steam gift cards?

At 26 after getting married (like 3 years since then).
Had some tournaments of the popular FPS or moba from then. Some dreamhack, some Intel extreme when it was big and even a key in the LoL NA UEW championship.
Honestly it's cool being known as a "pro" on your early adult life, but unless you bank it in while that scene (getting big sponsors or building your self a team) its not reliably. You need to be turned into a meme to make yourself a name (Tyler 1/Poki) or an insane game God like faker in LoL or Tfue in fortnite.
In earning as far money goes it goes like:
Big streamers>Global tier pro players>mid streamers>regional pro players>any work that pays over 75k yearly

I've never played pvp games without friends for fun because i'm not mentally ill

When I realized its all either limit pushing or exploits.
>Leave rank D using exploit C
>Leave rank C using exploit B
>Leave rank B using exploit A
>Leave rank A using exploit S
>Play chicken at rank S

17, even though I accepted a long time before that I wasn't getting out of silver. I only really played unranked in r6, then moved on to non ranked games like squad and tarkov.

I never had one. I've always regarded online multiplayer as a containment genre more than anything else.

Around 16 if I recall, a few months after Battlefield 4 came out. Had an epiphany about how pointless it was and how even if I was willing to go full sweaty tryhard the chance of me getting anything tangible out of the experience when all is said and done is still close to nil. Years later and I only barely play PvP games at all, the only ones I still jam the occasional game in is TF2 and the other TF2, funnily enough.

>lots of words: the projection

32 or something
It's all a scam

as soon as i played actual top players at one of the games i thought i was good at

Top players*** are always hyper active druggies and psychos
Or literal fucking pedos like the smash ***pros***

When I got a kid.
Got no time to grind, so I just play with my shitty friends on a smurf account whenever I have the time. Doesn't matter that much if we lose as long as we get to hang out a bit every now and then

around 26, playing stopped being fun and became a horse race to keep up with skill and get better all the time that it became a second job.

16. I pretty much stopped playing fps entirely now. Last fps I really played at my buddies place was destiny. Just not fun to me anymore. Point at thing, shoot at thing, rinse, repeat.

I dont get what being a pedo has to do with being better than you at a video game

23. Feels good to enjoy my evenings instead

There's a crazy amount of this in iRacing.

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I was too old to fall for this trap by the time it was a thing.
The downside?
I'm old. feelsbadman

Anybody going out of their way to make a depreciative wojak edit is just mad that other people are willing to try harder than they are. You want to make a mockery of them so that your laziness and failure to succeed seems justified and reasonable, rather than it reflecting on your own inadequacy.

28 or so after buying a house. I realised in life when you accomplish something it stays while in a game they just wipe away the scores every season anyways.

>better than me = doping or a pedo

holy cope

It's true tho
Google it

I hardly think coming to the realization that there are a nigh-infinite number of more productive things one could be putting their time and effort into rather than pouring hours and hours into getting good at a competitive video game is laziness or failure in any meaningful capacity.

I look at people that want to be pro streamers the same as people that wanted to be actors. It's a one in a million shot

playing against a lobby of likeminded and equally skilled regulars in a server is way more kino than auto queuing ranked.

I won 50 bucks at a melee tournament, 500 at a street fighter iv tournament and a wow gift card plus 200 bucks at a cs source tournament in my early 20's. Didn't do much after that.

then why aren't you a pro player user?

24.... im trying my best to quit and i hate it every time i go back to playing, every day i uninstall and re install the game, im going fucking insane

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Exactly
Typically the people who complain about compfags and tryhards are tryhards themselves, just without the willpower to improve

Because it requires both discipline and a major time investment.

Take a week off fren, get some better perspective on it.
youtu.be/bM23N1IPrDk?t=4089
youtube.com/watch?v=xEWsZAir6rI

as soon as i realized I had more fun killing people in unranked games than I did sweating so I could brag about my rank.

I had some brief phases of compfaggery when overwatch and halo infinite first got competitive. They only lasted for 2-3 weeks before I realized what I was doing. I don't think that there has been any game that was enhanced by adding competitive modes.

The real issue is that people spend many hundreds if not thousands of hours playing crappy multiplayer games instead of the best things videogames have to offer, aka singleplayer games.

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they're just total fucking freak outliers in terms of reaction time, small motor skills, and decision making on top of playing for 12 hours a day

if you're just normie good you can't really hope to compete

never i am too adhd to play a game for longer than 50 hours they get old fast
i cant imagine dedicating your life to them

i once quit for about a year but it always drags me back in

22
I was pounding my bed out of frustration from losing a ranked game. Then I had an epiphany about how much I hated the game, I was getting nothing out of it, and I'd never had anger management issues before. Quit Siege in 2018 and never looked back

Lot of the text blurbs aren't applicable but the mentality was the same

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its because measuring yourself against others and improving over who you were yesterday can only be done to a certain point on sp games without becoming an autist imbecile who speedruns
instead, doing that against other humans has an almost endless skill ceiling
different people like different incentives to play

>redditjak
Go back

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i have never liked it. i played OW a bit like most people, dropped it instantly when seasons and rankings started. any game i get serious hours in has none of that shit.

>see game
>has comp
>try it out
>win some lose some
>higher you go the more cancerous it gets
>have to have major win streaks to progress in higher ranks
>one loss and it sets all your progress back
>basically a huge waste of time whether you win or lose
>only do comp if there is actual real rewards for it and are worth the time
>reach the rank i can without any major time investment
>get rewards
>disregard comp/ranked otherwise
Most multiplayer pvp games are also not suited for true competitive mode since they all suck.
I blame "e-sports" and the promise of getting rich and famous why games are not made with fun in mind.
And i blame the low iq of developers for not being able to make a balanced game that whether you win or lose, it was fun regardless.

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Yea Forums
>you should let people play whatever they want!
also Yea Forums
>WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE YOU PLAYING GAMES COMPETITIVELY THAT'S BAD AND NOT GOOD

People who play online games have mental issues

Wasting your time playing vidya games is no different than being a compfag.

many of them cheat in various ways. it's a billion dollar industry and you can set yourself up for life by cheating, winning a couple tournaments and doing the streamer thing. you don't even have to do that you can make a bunch from sponsorships too. no one gives a fuck about it and will never seriously investigate because everyone is making too much money. the industry would collapse overnight if it was exposed. it's sad seeing kids who are legitimately great knowing they don't have connections to the right people and will never be anything