Bad manners and annoying limitations

So I was sitting down at my computer one morning when I came across Neo-Destiny's steam (for those who don't know he was a competitive StarCraft player who turned to League of Legends) and I saw that he was active!

Being that he's one of my favorite players, I tuned in too see some Hawt Draven action only to find him playing Xcom, Enemy Unknown, a non competitive single player game. And at first I wasn't perplexed as it was freaking awesome to watch him, but eventually I had to think to myself "Wait, what's he doing not practicing the game that makes him money?"

So I dug into it a bit and it he probably got banned for BMing his team or something along those lines. Which means the Tribunal (or who ever) decided to ban him for his usual antics. The interesting thing about it is, the fact that League has these control systems seems to be working. I know that Destiny has become tamer since his days in SC2. I mean c'mon. Just look at all the BM highlights that he managed to accrue over the years. However he himself on his stream said that he was getting less and less Bad Mannered.

With Stephano getting suspended a few months ago for making those comments about abusing a 14 year old girl, it seems like ProGaming is cracking down on explicite comments and outrageous behavior.  It used to be up to the individual teams and event organizers to discipline the players (except IdrA's team cause lets be honest what could they do about it?) but with entities like The Tribunal making it's way into the scene, we can expect more standardization across the whole of gaming.

Is this step going to make Gaming a legit sport in main stream society? Are we going to be taken seriously because we start reigning in player behavior? Probably not.

I'd love to see a Pro-Gamer go through this transmutation...

The fact of the matter is Gaming doesn't have Michael Vick-esque scandles, even when we compare Setphano's off color humor it doesn't compare. The closest thing we have is the 2010 match fixing thing we had with some Korean players. ProGaming all in all is pretty tame when compared to Football's made up girlfriend trend, or Baseball's steroid problems. The worst we have is a little immature insulting throwing and some offensive language.

All in all the pro-gaming scene is going through the same transition that politicians are going through. Namely, anyone with a camera phone can expose what they're doing. Screen caps and steam footage can get players in plenty of trouble. But unlike Mitt Romney, Pro-Gaming doesn't have 47% of the drama and poor decisions that our government does.