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ArenaNet on the ESL Pro League Championships
SBFord
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ArenaNet on the ESL Pro League Championships
The first finals for the Guild Wars 2 ESL Pro League are coming up this weekend, and we sat down with ArenaNet’s Competitive Brand Manager, Joshua Davis to chat about the league, the championships this weekend, and the future.
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And regarding dreams, not in my worst nightmares did I ever dream about esport in MMORPGs. Not once.
Sorry, thats all i hear when people complain about games without giving a concrete reason to back up their opinion.
Normally Blizzard is all over this kind of nonsense but in Hearthstone they lucked out because they ended up getting multi millions of supporters without raising a finger to do anything constructive for the game.
Look at the top Twitch games,all related to pro gaming>>>$$$$$,sad when gaming fun ONLY becomes important when money is involved.
I am not saying the case for GW2 but NORMALLY pro gaming also forces out way more money in the cash shop because when money is involved gamer's are impatient and will want to speed things up.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Who's complaining? I'm simply stating cold hard truths.
It's not my fault you're too much of a fanboy to see reason.
Per month LoL has 67+ million players, Dota 2 12+ million, CS-GO 5+ million, Smite 8+ million.
I'd be very very surprised gw2 pvp has ever hit 10k players a month.
Poor popularity along with the basic button mashy combat and blatant p2w are the main reasons why gw2 pvp will never be taken seriously in e-sports. arenanet are delusional.
Following your logic then WoW is the only successful mmo, which is not the case.
Not being a fanboy, my answer applies to all games. I dont do esports and i dont care about esports, but just because X game has a trillion people doesnt mean a game with half of that cant succeed doing the same thing.
The game is interesting, the commentary is good and relevent it was quite exciting to watch.
The EVO Championship is also quite entertaining and fun to watch.
I know there are bigger tournaments like ESL, Dreamhack, International, WCG.
Really liked Starcraft and Starcraft 2 before HOTS because there is to much micromanagement now Harder to be interested in GW2 when the matches are rarely even, but with the recent patch changes hopefully the game will be more interesting to watch and balanced.
Thats why most MMO's don't really have a large esports scene. Games like Street Fighter or counter strike are far more easier to watch/ understand. Even for people who've never played it.
GW2 pro leagues is pretty much only for gw2 players/ fans that are interested in it. If you don't play gw2 i can see why it may not appeal to you, but players who like it exist.
Im very good at pvp, but still don't give a **** about it
I like e-sports and competitive PVP a lot, but GW2's "esport" scene is garbage. Last time I watched one, which was awhile ago, there were so many delays and so much time between games, and the commentators sounded like they were casting from a dorm room somewhere.
@Wizardry ; GW2 gives you no reason whatsoever to spend money in the cash shop for spvp.
@stio89 ; You played the League of Legends card? Really?
@APThug ; There are millions of people watching football and have not much of a clue whats going on either. Same can be said of all sports.
@mazut ; If we only worried about what you think then this website woulda went down years ago.
Fixed for clarity.
It's a couple thousand players actively engaged.The rest of us are there for the lolz.
If you don't care, why do you answer me and all the others
Where did I say I don't care?
@carotid wow you have me speechless
This is the difference between GW2 and games like LoL. When a person watches a LoL match they see vivid lines and colors making it easy to see the details of the world. The camera glides effortlessly across the map, never obstructed. Characters are easily recognizable by appearance and skill sets. Even someone that doesn't know the game can learn in watching a single match and go "Look out! That big yellow guy is going to grab you again!"