It's obviously because Ming is an idiot.  He's attracted to superficial things rather than understanding the entire context, like a fly attracted to a fly zapper.  He also craves attention and writing idiocy continues to garner it for him. 

What really gets me is that people seem to respect his past and his intellect, all because he tells them he was a stock broker in New York.  There's hardly any evidence that he was ever a successful human being, and my best guess is that he never made it higher than some clerical/mail boy position.  Quiet, homely, antisocial people do not work on Wall Street and they certainly don't become stock brokers.  The people that work there are highly motivated, supremely arrogant and generally quite bright.  Does that sound like shadow lurking, Ming obeying Terry White?

 

You mean market WoW like WWE?

Oh god, I hope Ming doesn't see this.

 

Actually, the most likely situation is that Ming is making most of this up because he knows he can sucker people in. 

Guess I fell for it. >.>

 

He doesn't mean roleplay in the sense of like the Blizzcon freaks.  He means it in the adventurey sort of way that most casuals play WoW. 

Essentially, WoW is like 2 completely different games.  1 are the Arenas, which cater to everyone to some degree, but mostly only apply to the top 5-10% (pulling numbers out of my ass!)  The rest of the players are playing something else, and those are the ones you need to appeal to to make WoW successful as an e-sport. 

None of the other e-sports are divided like WoW is.

 

I know I've been critical of grrl gamers in other posts on this site, but the thing with her is that she doesn't want to be a girl pro gamer.  She just wants to be a pro gamer, so competing (eventually) in MSL/OSL is what's important to her, not winning against lower competition (the all female tournaments.)