first off, i will be VERY frank on this despite the impending elitist/*******/troll remarks. hell, i've been perceived a such anyways for all i can remember, so what does it matters anyways? to you from me, take it or leave it, entirely up to you. again as a reminder, this is of my personal views/opinions/perspective, if you (or anyone else) dont like it or have a problem with it, f*** off

now to begin.

Your views on potential problems vs what/where i stand:

- money
to people who even know me for a bit (only need to take maybe 5 minutes to click on my siggy) would know quite easily i have absolutely no problems on forking out, regardless of my financial status or how i spend like a total retard

- transportation and/or distances issues (potential excuse)
i LOVE driving my car. even if its not the best car on the road (year 1999 proton iswara, who am i kiddin?) i drove this baby down to penang, ipoh, even singapore from KL, and i never complaint about it. i spend a fortune on it to the point it has no selling value, from complete overhauls to part replacements to ICE. for the records anyways, driving to cyberjaya MMU was never an issue. which i will address very soon.

- disgusting mentality of freebies
for spotgamers i did voiced out faintly on my first post on the thread:
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=46956107

i was a participant for the cyberfusion (read: passion) held previously. and no doubt i got their amd processor, and god was i frustrated to get rid of it. to be VERY FRANK. even if they did not gave out free procs, i would've gone eitherway to push myself to my limits, and because i was still very passionate towards gaming, and most importantly, because a group of my friends went along with me. (although, if you relate to that, almost half of said friends went because of the freebies, while i cant be certain of this, as i am speaking from my viewpoint, it may be very much so the case as they arent hardcore gamers)

- friends
now that we are on spotgamers, in the end, i never went. (which i also mentioned in the said thread)
no one amongst my friends want to go, i have already stopped being a hardcore (or passionate, if you would prefer) gamer, even more so since i have gotten my new job, which requires 24/7 standby, and many graveyard shift activities, in a nutshell, i pretty much had no personal life for the first few months i got this job. The pay is well, and i need it due to my increasing debts, but thats more of a personal matter than addressing this thread at hand.

if i have no friends thats willing to follow me, and i am totally not passionate enough to do this alone, what else would there be to drive me to go to spotgamers event? (or any other events, like the ones you organized, organizing in the present or future for example)

- The Malaysian SC2 community
tada! the main spotlight of what i am wanting to voice.

i am absolutely disgusted, and i absolutely loath the Malaysian SC2 community. its too filled with hypocrites, shitty malaysian mentality (includes but not limited to the ones you have ranted), wannabe elitists, wannabe trolls - or in a nutshell, f***ing posers.

If you were active around when sc2 was launched, i was quite active with almost everything in this forum, to joining tournaments (vista lasik) to joining other malaysians (who are willing to goto US servers at least), to posting replays, guides and what not over the racial threads. what happened down the road?

it is just not worth it anymore.

if i am not in a clique (you yourself are DAMN CLEAR on the "not approachable" part), id just be show down easily by whatever i do. regardless the effort or if i am right or wrong, or if it is sensible or not.

That, backing up with my new job, my losing interests towards gaming in general, is what results in my standpoint towards the Malaysian SC2 community as a whole.
Now finally. if i have absolutely NO REASON to show up at events even if i could (money and transportation/distance). Why would i be?

unless something drastic is changing, my answer to your question of "So, how far are you willing to go to support malaysian e-sports?" will forever remain the same: "Nope."

And if you decide to forsaken the community just like i did, i do not blame you one bit, In fact you yourself also understood clearly. i mean, my education is low considering today's standards, however with so many years working in the big corporate world, i understand very well that the world revolves around money, You need money to get things done and what ever money you are investing, ultimately you would want returns as any sane businessman would be.

i don't know why malaysian's are still in the freebie/cheapskate mentality. to be honest i sometimes dont even understand that part (admittedly, that can be quite hypocritical even from me) because thats just totally naive. my only relief is that i do see more people understanding the saying "good things arent cheap, cheap things arent good", because being an active participant in other forums such as the ICE/audiophile forums, or even hobby forums, i've seen FAR TOO MANY faggots paying for peanuts and expecting high returns. But that's bullshit, they can blame govt, blame whoever, blame god, but fact is you need money for things, and the less you pay, the less you get.

now, im going too far into this rant, and it is coming quite close to RWI material already (which frankly, i find it either boring, or too tedious/tldr to bother) so ill cut this short:

Barcraft, i can and dont mind attending so long i dont get sudden night jobs (my dept usually opposes weekend jobs so normally, it should be no issue) as i can just treat it as a casual drinking session, and i could use some alchohol to cool off some work stress per say. however if its not happening, i hold nothing against you and again, it is fully understandable.