http://www.gameriot.com/blogs/Exitec-.../The-E-Ego/
A quote from the end:
Exitec wrote:
For all you who run around claiming you don't have an ego, and flaunt your video's on warcraftmovies.com by putting in the description "I know im an average player, I just made this movie for fun!" to avoid getting critique'd and getting a lower rating because you really are in fact bad; you make me sick. I honestly think the most overrated player in WoW for the past few months has been Evertras, probably one of the most average/worst mages I've ever seen make a video, and yet his ratings on wm.com are higher than some of the best mages in the world. Why? Because apparently "manning up" to the fact that you suck d!ck, means your a better player.
Congrats all you terrible players out there. Im glad you have been able to officially move up in the ranks, by admitted your awful at this game.
Honestly, this made me laugh. Where to begin...
Apparently the sole criteria of a good movie is to show skill. Everyone that watches PvP videos MUST without exception rate ONLY on the skill of the player. Nevermind if the movie is boring as hell, or if it's the same rehash done fifty times before. Oh no. It can't possibly be for entertainment or any other purpose. Shame on you all for rating my video on something other than skill. SHAME! >:O
Exitec wrote:
Lastly, if you know your bad, please just accept it. Standing in front of org saying "I know i'm going to lose" before every duel is pretty childish, and we all know it's just a coverup so when you do lose, you can't get told your bad because....well, you just admitted it. Yet on the flipside, if you win, then you get to run around spamming org that you just beat someone in better gear, even though your "bad." Honestly grow a pair and play to win, not play to "LOL I HOPE I DON"T GET MADE FUN OF."
Apparently the only reason to duel is for bragging rights. Hmm. I guess I've been going about it wrong the entire time. I mean, I can't duel for fun anymore? I can't say "good fight!" after beating an epixed out SL lock and leave it at that? I guess have to yell it to the heavens, spread it around in guild chat, make forum posts, and take screenshots. I'll remember to do that next time.
As a serious note, I'd like to reiterate why I keep saying I'm an average mage. Modesty aside, I think I'm pretty decent, but I know I'm far from the best. I don't say this to avoid critique, I say this because I want people to know that the stuff I do in my videos is stuff they can do themselves.
As another serious note, the reason I made this post was only partially to share the good fun that is that blog post. The other part was for a few musings on PvP videos.
What makes a "good" PvP video? I think a lot of people forget who they're making the videos for, and are absolutely floored when an "inferior" video containing cat pictures and silly alt skits does better than a technically skilled player showcasing difficult fights with death metal back to back to back... to back... to back...
For those of you making PvP videos, remember your audience! You're making this video for other people, not yourself. Other people don't want to see the same thing for 20-30 minutes. Put some variety in there! It's kind of like being left alone in the candy store. Sure, chocolate covered pretzels are good... but if you stuff your face with them for the next half hour, I guarantee they're not going to be as good as you thought they were by the end.
Not only variety, but make it something that the average WoW player can appreciate. Vurtne was a master of this, taking on tons of opponents with flashy moves. A heated debate on the mage forums is often revolving around Vurtne's skill. Honestly, that kinda misses the point. The man makes damned, damned good movies that are flat out fun to watch (and he's a damned good mage to boot).
On the other hand, let's take Pigvomit's 2v1 arena movie. Awesome skill shown, and it ends up with a 4.2 rating and about 25k downloads. For a lot of people, it just wasn't an entertaining movie. That doesn't make it a BAD movie (and Pigvomit certainly hasn't complained like certain mages COUGHEXITECCOUGH), and I personally definitely enjoyed it and would love to see more, but it was made for a smaller audience. It's not a movie for the masses, and while there's nothing wrong with that, it'd be silly to expect it to take off and go platinum with 5's.
And now for the big question...
Could Vurtne beat Pigvomit?
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Who cares? ;)
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ShinjaShinryuuSimply: /sign Evertras
The post of Exetic just completly misses the point of making movies. It might be that he is one of those guys playing WoW even at times they don't want to play it, then complaining that WoW "sucks" or their class "sucks" instead of just staying away from it for some days... Why are they playing? Because they "have to" farm some stuff "have to" go raiding", "have to" keep up their arena rating.
I don't know if he really is that kind of guy, but after reading his post I'd consider it rather probable.