and evolving competitive Overwatch in a new direction
Aye, rankings are based on who has the costliest skin equipped, of course!
finally, a ranking we can all actually care about
I’m not mad, e-sports ruin games for casuals imo.
It ruined Overwatch as a whole imo. Fuck role queue and fuck single tank
I prefer role queue and I’m glad that it only cost one tank to get rid of cc/stun for everyone
Good. It ruined the game.
Looking back, they literally never had a good clean season. Season 1 was Mercy meta, and only branched out near the end. Season 2 was all goats until the finals where the meta did a 180. Season 3 was COVID, and after COVID they penny pinched on everything and nothing was impressive again. It was the source of so many bad decisions that only affected the actual game negatively. That’s all I remember it for being now.
This was too artificial and expensive, there wasn’t a grassroots movement to make it happen
From the comments here, apparently I was the only one who really enjoyed watching OWL.
Yeah, it wasn’t perfect, yeah it always had a meta, but it was fun to watch.
I watched them live at gamescom once. Was a lot of fun!
Noo, I love watching mirrored matches of 12 heroes for the entirety of the tournament duration, it was so much fun waiting for someone to press Q and the commentators getting hyped about it.
Jokes aside, they needed more heroes from the beginning, and instead of churning out heroes every season like OW2 does, they slowed down, ironically, because of OWL.
I always thought that competitive gaming is amazing, but competitive gaming like this will never be sustainable. For one, it relies on endless influx of people willing to spend money, and regularly watch the content. Given how little new stuff Blizzard actually made, it’s impossible to remain interested.
But let’s just take something else as an example. The League of Legends championships have been out there for like 15 years now. For the latter half of that, it’s looked a lot like insider trading and money laundering, because it’s not a competition for who wins the game. It’s a competition for whose gaming brand stays in business
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25M over 30D. Far more popular than lemmy 😉
Considering actually trusted statistics it’s more like 20.5k people
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A bit sad, but not surprising. It was always something that felt forced and only propped up by companies trying to create a new market in order to monopolize it.
If the NFL didn’t exist, then suddenly just sprung on the public as it exists now, I think it would have also suffered a similar fate.
On the player and even team level, I’m sure it felt different, but as a spectator, it was hard to ignore the top down, corporate, ad filled, “fellow kids” feel of the thing.
OWL dying is a shame, I was excited for it, and right when they were about to do the games in the proper cities COVID stopped that, then whoever was asleep at the wheel let the GOATS meta run an entire season when it should have been stopped by a rule change after one match, destroying any desire to watch further.
Good, really don’t care about everything surrounding eSports. Gamers are cringe.