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Firefall: Focus on eSports Spotlighted with FragDoll Hire
SBFord
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The Firefall team wants fans to know that they will have a big presence in the eSports community thanks to the hiring of FragDoll maven and founder, Morgan “Rhoulette” Romine.
Nothing is better than quoting the original source:
Romine, better known as “Rhoulette” in video game communities, helped found and build Ubisoft’s all-girl professional gaming team. As Manager and Team Captain, she served as a primary spokesperson for the Frag Dolls and has used that role to become a visible advocate for women in the video game industry. Her involvement in professional gaming has given her an unparalleled insight into the culture of competitive video gaming and the values of its communities.
Fans of eSports rejoice!
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Interesting to see how this is going to play out. I think for an MMO this might create a rift in the community with people who want to play competitive and poeple who just play casual on the other hand it might create a dedicated group of following for years to come.
Did not know what esports was until I looked it up. It is professional gaming, which I don't think many on this site would give one thought about.
clearly you have zero idea about the future of gaming sir
esports has been huge, and forever will b huge...
I'm a hardcore gamer it wasn't even on my radar until it was mentioned in relation to Guild Wars 2 during the recent PvP introduction. I did some reading up about it and it looks about as exciting as a manila envelope glued to a beige wall. If that's our future, I'm going back to my Merlin.
> eSports
Seriously...stare at that picture for 10 seconds and tell me that dosent look like a dude with a bad wig on.
How can you have not heard about esports ? Its been around for decades, which makes me wonder how "hardcore" of a gamer you are...
Firefall might want to focus on its gameplay if it wants to be an E-sport. It's practically the exact same PvP experience as Global Agenda, and thats went a whole lot of nowhere.
Well it might be your interest, but you are definitely in a very small minority. Gaming is something everyone can do, you don't have to be a professional athlete to do it, hence why watch someone do it, when you can easily do it yourself and get a sense of satisfaction. I just don't see this as a sport nor something that will ever achieve mass popularity!
Odd comment, why watch someone play a game when you can have far more fun doing it yourself?
Watching competition of any kind is fun. I enjoyed watching two seagulls fight over a french fry yesterday. People spend billions watching sports that they don't even play.
People tend to be interest in the things they spend their time on (hobbies). If you played football in an amateur team, would you not watch professionals playing it in a professional league ?
So, why is there any sports on TV then ?
Well, at the very least it means that they intend to open FF up in markets other than NA/Europe.
Hopefully, anyway. E-sports are a joke without Korea.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
damn these NDA's. don't wanna get this closed up too
anyways i'd be excited for this game if i were you.
Google.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
I think eSports is the LAST thing the MMORPG market needs.
Instanced PvP has already ruined MMO PvP why glorify it?
Yet poker tournements are hit on television. I can also bike, walk, run, swim and really anything a professional athlete can do. Well maybe not climb to the top of a mountain, but you do not see that on TV as a sport anyway. Why would the same not count for gaming?
E-sport is already popular. In fact a hardcore gamer (if that is mean compatative and not just someone who spend a lot of time on it) already is playing an e-sport. You do not need to have people watching at all to pratice and e-sport or any sport at all. Yet it does have viewers and it might not be extreamly popular it's popular enough to keep the professional playing and sponsered.
I do not think Red5 is looking for viewer, but just highly competative players to keep the PvP scene alive, kicking and interesting. With some video's about the competition on youtube or a website like that and no live streams or whatever.
Shrug; is every employee hired by a gaming company required to provide you a resume?
You first.
Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow.
well before i knew about tribes:ascend i was totaly into firefall. but after seeing some tribes and some firefall movies, i doubt there is going to ne much esports in this game.
firefall seems awfully slow compared to tribes and looks like it plays like global agenda (the PVP part ofc). not sure how other people out think about it, but for me eports has to be fast paced action and firefall is far away from beeing fast.
i will try it out, maybe it is better, but since i fell in love with tribes years ago, this one just doesnt seem to cut it (pvp whise)
Vinterkrig by your reasoning every single team that doesnt " dominate" everyone else should quit and get over it ... i wonder how all the football championships would be like if that " moronic" atitude went forward ... a single team championship ?!?!?!? just cause they dont "DOMINATE" doesnt mean they´r not good ...