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Rhapsody

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Lostconfused said:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1292990

well it looks like some FG players in Japan picked up PS4s.

On the other hand RIP BB sales, doing about as well as GG now on home console.
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The game, like XrdR, did the demo push on digital preorders, so who knows. I don't think mediacreates includes those.

But you're right, it's probably lower. BBCP had an opening of over 70k on PS3. Combining PS3 and PS4 and however many digital sales the game got, I doubt it reached those same numbers.
 
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peter0611

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Congrats Juicebox!

Hbox is on his stream announcing he's leaving his job to be a pro melee player...as if he already wasn't one LOL. I always though one of of the most impressive things about Hbox was that he's a melee 'god', won this year's EVO, and still helda full time job (as a chemical engineer?). Most of the other top players don't have regular jobs.

I'm thinking this decision is related to his recent performance. At last weekend's Big House, he got 5th. He got trounced (again) by SFAT, a player who he has a dominating record against. He did not take that well at all and fell apart in losers. I wish him all the best. Gotta root for the only player doing work with Puff.
 
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Cosmo Clock 21

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I can't in good conscience support somebody leaving a stable career field like chemical engineering for a volatile one like esports but sometimes you gotta let you heart lead you I guess
 
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peter0611

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^I pretty much agree. But he loves playing competitive melee and while he was making decent money at his job, he wasn't very happy and it was clearly impeding on his training for tourneys. What's cool is that his supervisor supports the decision and said he's welcome back if it all falls through.

Sounds like he'll also be trying full-time streaming to in combination with tournaments. Same as most of the top players.
 
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Cosmo Clock 21 said:
I can't in good conscience support somebody leaving a stable career field like chemical engineering for a volatile one like esports but sometimes you gotta let you heart lead you I guess
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As someone who works with engineers I can tell you that he wont have trouble finding his way back into the field if he ever regrets leaving. If he has the income already (which most do in his field) to safely leave and try other fields that have potentially less income then he's cool. I keep considering leaving my field after I pay off a few chunks of debt for one that pays less elsewhere. Really the bills are all that keep me in racist ass West Virginia. Once I pay off a couple of these in the next year or so...well I may just sell the new house and move away. Not like I haven't done enough work to flip this place already anyhow. Got it cheap and already raised its value over 40k.

If you are in a situation to pursue a dream DO IT. He wont have trouble getting back into chemical engineering work if he needs the security later.

EDIT: For the record, I'll elaborate...I live in a really REALLY backwater area of WV now. It wasn't this bad down south but up north its Trump country and I hear really revolting chatter on the daily. Its hard to put up with.
 
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CO_Andy

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Anne

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HBox is oen of the few people in esports in a position where you can't really hate on him for taking the risk. He's already established he has a chance to make good money on streams/events/sponsors, and he has back up plans on top of back plans with a STEM degree and an open job.
 
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FSLink

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Anne said:
HBox is oen of the few people in esports in a position where you can't really hate on him for taking the risk. He's already established he has a chance to make good money on streams/events/sponsors, and he has back up plans on top of back plans with a STEM degree and an open job.
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Yeah not to mention when he had more free time it really showed in the last year. I think it's an avenue worth exploring more with him especially with eSports growing, and him having backup plans if it doesn't work out.
 
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sixteen-bit said:
apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXk0zrz0a44
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I'm curious about this -- specifically, how they are going to get a feed from each console (technically possible, with or without the ability to directly broadcast from a PC or PS4) and keep the players on each console up to date. Since there's nothing tying players to games (or is there? Do they have some nutty RFID system in place planned?) and no functionality to expose game data to external APIs, they would need people to manually update match and bracket, which seems like it would be way more manpower than it's worth.

I actually had prototyped something like this for Melty Blood using cccaster way back in the day. Basically setting up every machine to broadcast games over a a local network and then letting the streamer spectate one (or more, or all of them) games on the fly -- and there's nothing (except venue Internet -- so, in a practical sense, everything) that prevented those stations from being exposed to Twitch or another service. It turned out to be workable, but it involves running a version of the game that never really was the tournament standard (and there are some minor but important differences, mainly due to the different I/O handling and frame pacing) and hacking together a local network on a whole array of PCs that you don't have access to until about 15 minutes before the start of the event. It turned out that the biggest issue is keeping track of players -- there's functionality in cccaster to do that but it's buried in about three sub-menus during the initial setup, and it's all manual entry. You could have staff on top of that, but that's more things for an event with a skeleton staff to worry about. -_-
 
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Tripon

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CurlyW said:
Hmm, looks like flosports just adapted the interface they use for live updates of amateur wrestling tournaments towards fighting game tournaments. Makes sense.

Real question is if SCR is actually using flosports to stream, or if flosports is merely embedding the Twitch stream.
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The schedule I saw for SCR only had twitch streams.

Flosports might have a live in convention stream, something like Twitch main channel does at conventions and E3.
 
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mnz

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Going exclusively to something other than twitch right now would be dumb. There would have to be a lot of money involved.
 
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Tripon

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mnz said:
Going exclusively to something other than twitch right now would be dumb. There would have to be a lot of money involved.
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It wouldn't be SCR anyway. They have an in house production company, Level Up Live. They wouldn't let an outside production company have exclusive rights to SCR, unless it was Capcom Fighters.
 
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Line_HTX

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Anne said:
HBox is oen of the few people in esports in a position where you can't really hate on him for taking the risk. He's already established he has a chance to make good money on streams/events/sponsors, and he has back up plans on top of back plans with a STEM degree and an open job.
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Damn, that's some good managing right there to have backups of the backups.
 
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Kadey

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Watching some KOF last night and I can say that it's more entertaining to me than SFV is right now. There's more variety and just more things to it.
 
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