Darc Requiem said: Ka-pi96 said: Hilarious! And he's completely right, watching other people playing games rather than playing them yourself is silly. I disagree. There are lot of things people watch that they could do themselves. Sports being the most obvious example.

Watching sports and watching people play video games are completely different things. By your logic I should be able to buy an Eagles helmut and go play for them. Or maybe I can get a Flyers jersey and jump on the bench and go in. Watcing the Eagles or Flyers or Sixers or Phillies is way different than playing those sports with my friends in real life.

Watching someone play Halo is exactly the same as me playing Halo myself.

This kind of inane logic, is only something a gamer can come up with. 

First things first, the people crying, are mostly going to be the people that watch youtube gaming, ie, pewdopie fans, ie people of 14 yrs and below. They are quite possiblly the most vapid group of people you will ever come across on the internet. 

A sport requires, equipment. That equipment requires maintainence, that said equipment, requires a garden / field / gym / stadium etc and the said person using this equipment will generally require a high standard of skill or if they are not that skilled a lot of practice, in order to use the said equipment correctly.

Video games do not require equipment other than a TV, something everybody has and a living room/bedroom, again something everybody has. The only ''skill'' required is sight, sound, fingers and thumbs. 

To get straight to the point, the people that watch these extended ''lets plays'' are compeltely and utterly seceded from the physical word. They dont buy games, they dont watch movies, they dont watch tv shows and even if they did, it would be through piracy. Their level of contribution is minumal at best. It baffles me how many of these sorts of people there are. Its truly worrying. 

Everything has been exagarated, let's put it at that.

Regardless of if the joke still stands and is funny (it is), your comparisons aren't very good. A sport does require equipment, so do games. You cannot play football without a ball and you cannot play games without a device that plays games... or a controller, or a way for the games to be displayed to you... or a game. The only skill required to kick a ball is swinging your leg towards it. You are way over simplifying things.

If you are going to do good comparisons you have to compare like for like activities. High end football, a match between Man U and Chelsea requires equipment for the players to play with, a ground to play on, referrees, millions in wages for highly skilled player, 11 on both side. A stadium full of fans to watch. TV facilities to record and broadcast the game to millions on their TVs or internet devices. A professional League of Legends game between the best players in Korea require a specialist PC equipment for the players to play on with connections over LAN, their prize money, equipment to broadcast these matches on Twitch and other places and even stadiums/arenas full of fans.

There is no difference here in reality.

This said, that is tournament play, watching someone play through the newest installment of Deus Ex with minimal talking all the way through and you not playing it is a little odd. It would be like going to watch a sunday league team practice on a wednesday night because you enjoy it.

In principle i agree with him. But i would never pay for watching those.

I only see people playing online when:
1- I want to see what the game is like.
2- The game bored me to tears and i just want to see how it all ends up.

I have only ever watched this pewdiepie guy like 2 times when he was playing corpse party to see if the game interested me. Needless to say that i get bored fast watching these. So i just looked until i can decide wether the game will interest me or until i lose my patience with the person playing it.

People who play games watching other people who play games? What next? People who play Football watching other people play football?!

Remember World of World of Warcraft?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ

People were offended by this? And not even a couple, that's a TON of dislikes on both videos.

I watch let's plays every now and then and I enjoyed the sketch. Not the funniest thing in the world but it's the farthest thing from offensive. People truly disappoint me on a daily basis lately.

Suck it up people!

We really do live in the era of being chronically upset/offended, don't we?

i thought it was funny. this is humor and i like humor very much.