No social media site is like that, but I guess it’s easier to attack a strawman rather than individual arguments.įor every post saying (for example) Seer in comp sucked, there was another post saying he would be good. Posts like these are just the same echo chamber of pros who go on stream and talk about the “comp subreddit” like it’s one single dude posting from his basement. There are Bronze ranked fans and also people who regularly play ranked in the same lobbies as the pros. It's like none of them want to take any responsibility for their performance at all.Īlmost like this sub is composed of a diverse group of people who all post different takes. And after they died, and Snipe was telling Mac that he commed it, Slurp goes "yeah I heard him too." Nice dude, you know you're allowed to talk too, right? You can comm the same shit. If that was Sweet or Hal or something, they're saying "NOT MY ULT" like 10 times so their teammates know. I'm not surprised at all Mac didn't hear it. Last night they died pushing Furia because Mac ran into Furia's Bang ult thinking it was Snipe's, and Snipe did indeed comm "that's not my ult," but he just said it one time kinda quietly. But the whole team has that same problem. That's a horrible comm, especially in the heat of the moment. There was a clip posted here where everyone was razzing on Slurp for fucking up a Valk ult, but in reality I thought it was Mac's fault for giving very confusing directions, especially the fact that he just kept screaming "PULL!" when he wanted Slurp to ult. He mentioned on his stream during the down time between split 1 & 2 he plans on hosting a big MFAM Gauntlet open to the whole community with qualifiers etc.īig props to him and the Tripods, I genuinely think they have a real shot at split 2 LAN. I hope he is still around when Apex is in a great spot again (hopefully soon). Especially during this time when Apex is stale and desperately needs some good updates, he has given the game life during a time where it really needs it. Overall, Nick has been a great addition to the scene. Which is absolutely crazy to think about how much he has grinded this game already and still feels like he has a lot more to go. Nickmercs just recently surpassed his hours streamed on Warzone with his hours streamed on Apex. They said Nickmercs wouldn’t stick with Apex, that he would go running back to Warzone. The Tripods just qualified for the next split of pro league over some teams that no one thought they would be better than. Kick stepped up for the MFAM, and we’re ready to step up for them.” MORE FROM FORBES MORE FROM FORBES Kick vs.They said they didn’t deserve an invite to pro league, that they would get rolled and finish dead last. “They’re looking for me and the community we’ve built to help define gaming on the platform, and I’m excited to make an immediate impact. “I cannot wait to start streaming on Kick,” he says. It’s part of his larger strategy to establish a strong community that will mobilize around his entrepreneurial efforts. In addition to his monthly payouts, Kick has agreed to help fund live events hosted and produced by Nickmercs, as well as the prize pools for digital gaming tournaments broadcast on Kick. “The goalpost always moves,” Nickmercs told Forbes in January. It places him among the highest-paid gamers in the world, and last month he was named to Forbes’ annual list of the internet’s Top Creators.īut he describes his ambition as insatiable. Over the trailing 12 months, Nickmercs has earned an estimated $11.5 million from his content and sponsorships with Under Armour, UFC and Beats by Dre. Today, Nickmercs has almost seven million followers on the platform, and at his peak, he had more than 80,000 monthly subscribers.īut last September, Twitch announced it was lowering the amount of subscription revenue share kept by top creators from 70% down to 50% starting in June 2023, signaling a strategy shift away from big payouts for its biggest stars. The 28-year-old became one of the faces of Twitch during a pandemic-era gaming boom that eventually landed him an eight-figure platform-exclusivity contract with the Amazon-backed live streaming giant in 2020. In 2019, he joined FaZe Clan as a co-owner, although his shares have lost nearly all of their value with the publicly traded company now trading around 20 cents. Nickmercs began streaming on Twitch predecessor in 2010 and built a rapid fanbase around his bombastic personality and aggressive gaming style on titles like Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone.
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