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Tfw top US teams are full of EU players.EU > US
Tfw top US teams are full of EU players.EU > US
Tfw top US teams are full of EU players.
Hasn't that man had enough success??? Stick to football Kaft, let the Wilpons win something in my lifeti- oh who am I kidding? The Wilpons are lifetime losers.Bob Kraft the 🐐
This hasn't been the case with traditional sports for many, many years.
Is high-level competitive Overwatch play really popular enough to justify this? It doesn't even look fun to watch for the average person.
Okay...? SC2 died in the west because nobody could compete and the player base stopped caring as a whole about the game without representation, and no path to being competitive. Different story for shooters obviously but there should always be restrictions in place to keep a region's team feeling like it belongs to that region. If you just have five import players who can barely speak English how does that reflect or represent Miami? Why even set up home cities for these teams?At the end of the day foreign players make a stronger scene especially when the US players as a whole are not dominant in many popular games.
As LG evil Jake put it
If youre scared of foreign players coming over you're admitting failure as a reigon
Tfw top US teams are full of EU players.
Blizzard seems to have crippled it by asking for so much money. 7 teams is not enough
So just about nobody is going to beat them unless there's a fluke gotcha. Just like csgo.
So just about nobody is going to beat them unless there's a fluke gotcha. Just like csgo.
If your team is bad, you get booted from your franchise spot in League, and there are still slots that are open to anyone.
This by comparison is 100% permanent teams and only permanent teams no matter what.
We are also implementing a policy in which teams can lose their right to compete in the league if they finish in 9th or 10th place 5 times over an 8-split span.
The top 2 teams in the US for the longest time was Rogue and Envyus. Rogue is now all French and Envy is a mix of 4 EU players a Korean and Thai now.
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Still theres some strong competition in NA right now. Immortals has been looking strong with their two new koreans they loss to Rogue 3-2 in a really good series
Team Liquid has been getting better with Shadder and their new korean and Arc6 an unsigned team took rogue 2-0 before getting reverse swept so its not all down.
Boston confirmed to be cheaters.
This.This whole thing is set up to fail.
First, the entire first season is going to take place in LA. All regular season matches in one US city. So the whole 'represent your city' thing is wasted. Hard to root or care for a home town team when they never play in your town let alone continent.
Second, after the first season, they'll be hosting and playing in the team's cities. These will likely be weekly matches. Have fun flying players across the world (14+ hour flights) with jet lag and interfering with scrimmage and practice. NFL players bitch about playing in the UK once a year. Imagine doing it week in-week out.
Third, no Europe. ok.jpg
I don't see how this can succeed until they get enough teams in each region to play against each other.
Also let's be real here, EU are not the top dogs of overwatch. It's the koreans.
So a few years back, Activision noticed that they had zero capability to launch new IPs outside of Blizzard, and bought MLG in an attempt to turn eSports into an NFL like business. Part of this was hiring the former president of the NFL and I think a former CEO of ESPN.
The idea was to do this with Call of Duty, but they realized no one cared about Call of Duty, so they eventually transitioned the idea into Blizzard with Overwatch even though it was supposed to be a new way for the Activision branch to generate revenue.
This is similarly why they started a Film and TV division shortly after focused on Skylanders TV shows and Call of Duty movies, though they reserved the right to move that over to Blizzard's IPs if it failed in the Activision branch.
Eventually they realized both of these were hard, and just bought King to try and solve their issue of Activision being unable to support more than two game franchises, so they could at least grow with two of their branches (Blizzard and King).
But basically, this is the implementation of an idea that was meant for an entirely different product due to creative bankruptcy on the Activision half, so it was kind of just forced on there, and we're seeing the results of this with the astronomically slow uptake of franchisees.
This is an interesting narrative, but haven't they succeeded with Destiny as a new franchise?
I do buy that Activision is definitely interested in esports however, as they're trying with Call of Duty and Overwatch.
So a few years back, Activision noticed that they had zero capability to launch new IPs outside of Blizzard, and bought MLG in an attempt to turn eSports into an NFL like business. Part of this was hiring the former president of the NFL and I think a former CEO of ESPN.
The idea was to do this with Call of Duty, but they realized no one cared about Call of Duty, so they eventually transitioned the idea into Blizzard with Overwatch even though it was supposed to be a new way for the Activision branch to generate revenue.
This is similarly why they started a Film and TV division shortly after focused on Skylanders TV shows and Call of Duty movies, though they reserved the right to move that over to Blizzard's IPs if it failed in the Activision branch.
Eventually they realized both of these were hard, and just bought King to try and solve their issue of Activision being unable to support more than two game franchises, so they could at least grow with two of their branches (Blizzard and King).
But basically, this is the implementation of an idea that was meant for an entirely different product due to creative bankruptcy on the Activision half, so it was kind of just forced on there, and we're seeing the results of this with the astronomically slow uptake of franchisees.
Like barely anyone has names like that and when they do its fun to see casters reactions using them.One thing I really hope is that they for the love of god use names. Nothing is more off putting then hearing "butbuster3000 just took out EdgeLord37 with the help of his teammate babbabook"
Like na man use your god damn names get that regoninition guys because your killing it out there. Don't hide behind the gamer tag...
Ya I was kind of excaturating but it's still anoying exspecially if they are going for a more NFL type then they should use the real names.Like barely anyone has names like that and when they do its fun to see casters reactions using them.
Part of the appeal is that esports doesnt have to be super serious
One thing I really hope is that they for the love of god use names. Nothing is more off putting then hearing "butbuster3000 just took out EdgeLord37 with the help of his teammate babbabook"
Like na man use your god damn names get that regoninition guys because your killing it out there. Don't hide behind the gamer tag...
Surprised companiea are investing so heavily on a game that's still not fun to watch.
You should look up the countries of origin of the prominent players on your local sports teams. You might be surprised at what you learn.
You should look up the reasons Starcraft II died in the west. You might be surprised at what you learn.
Why did SC2 die in the west?
There were a lot of reasons, but one of them was Blizzard set up WCS (a global competition), and then they allowed the top Korean players to represent regions other than Korea. Competitive fans became bored of seeing a Korean player representing North America, playing against a Korean player representing Europe etc.
Have a look at the representatives for the 2014 global final where the top players from each region come together. All 16 players were Korean.
That's the issue, we in Europe have a huge pool of great players, but no money to field them locally.