PROs:
So, lets be clear, a group of dudes who get together, form their own pathetic li’l circle and call themselves “pros” really don’t get to decide if a game lives or dies and who’s a fking “NECRO” or not. Make your stupid buck , talk yourself up for petty confidence and move on li’l dudes.
I don't disagree with you on the point that there are a lot of horrible attitudes in the Professional Scene.
Actually, EVERY professional scene has its own horrible attitudes; people who look down on amateurs for example.
Huge egos happen, it has nothing to do with being a PRO, so don't mix them together.
Shitty people are just shitty people and putting them in the same box as a general scene is wrong.
Even if the majority of a pro scene is like that, sadly. In my field, it can get crazy pretty fast: people are judgemental in design because it's a very subjective field, with its own objective realities but guess what, being objective is the last thing people do.
Like when you protect your buddy by saying that being called a Necro and acting like "hey I don't even play this anymore" is just plain foul. You are not objective but it's your subjective right to call out people on that
And I fully agree.
But let's clear out a few things just to be sure.
1. PROfessional just means it's a person's profession. Their job. They get paid. I understand that it's wrongfully become the word to use when someone is "good" at something but that's not it. There are a lot of industry professionals in art, programming or heck even sports who veritably suck at most major aspects of their trade yet they are in the line of work - the profession - because they are very skilled at one single aspect of it. They're called a specialist.
2. Professions require skill. Skill requires expertise. Expertise requires effort. Effort means that while you go and make cash in your dayjob, these guys are working at their expertise, to hone their skill, so that they can improve at their professions.
Effort also means that while you go and relax after your dayjob, these guys are still working at their expertise, to hone their skill, so that they can FURTHER improve at their professions.
Hell, in my neck of the wood in the world of design there are people who, while you eat, sleep, or have sex, are still working at their expertise, to hone that skill, because this profession has so much competition that you just cannot afford to not be honing.
3. Saying they are not the cream of the crop is wrong. They are the professional scene and while there may be some amateurs who have put in the effort, or even have talent, and while those people do measure up, it's objective value vs face value and proof always wins.
Keep classy, people.