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MMO and e-sports
Hitting the F5 key countless times on SK-Gaming, Gameriot and several game-related sites a day makes me wonder why I quit WoW. Such great community you wont find anywhere in the world, thousands of hate-posts and flames each day, people actually putting in effort on thinking about what to flame on next, where the nerfbat has to hit and whatsoever.This makes me wonder; Why are people trying so hard to make WoW an e-sport? My personal view on this is quite simple: Despite the fact WoW was incredibly entertaining, had an amazing variation of thousands of items, numerous classes and skills, it all came down to the same thing; Random Number Generator (RNG) and countercomping. Playing mirrorsetups was the only reasonable ''skill-meter'', but the loser always has arguements; Top players crying over imbalanced racial, and of course the RNG crit/resist etc.
Even though I agree WoW Arena is in fact fun, it's also frustrating that roughly 50% of the time you meet setups you simply have the odds against. Also daily leaks of new setups by so called ''top players'' (yes, serennia, ming & co) ruin the surprise for many. Why are players still INSISTING that WoW HAS to become and esport? It simply can't. Even though I actually caught myself liking to spectate the WoW tournaments held so far, the idea of failure always played in my subconcience. (Easiest referring to the dreamhack 3v3 tournament, which was an absolute joke with crazy countercomp setups who were just hilarious and unthinkable in a normal 3v3 ladder).
I also got a general impression that alot of PvP fanatics have really enjoyed previous PvP oriented MMO's like Dark Ages of Camelot, where the PvP was considered ALOT better then in WoW. Now I wonder what the future (with the biggest names Age of Conan and Warhammer Online) will bring, and what other people think about it, and then I'm pointing to ''top arena players''. Even though the promising Siege battles etc. in AoC maybe will never be an e-sport either, I myself am really looking forward to some good Player versus Player environments again.
By Otto 'Accun' M
Mar 6, 2008 17:24
Hitting the F5 key countless times on SK-Gaming, Gameriot and several game-related sites a day makes me wonder why I quit WoW. Such great community you wont find anywhere in the world, thousands of hate-posts and flames each day, people actually putting in effort on thinking about what to flame on next, where the nerfbat has to hit and whatsoever.This makes me wonder; Why are people trying so hard to make WoW an e-sport? My personal view on this is quite simple: Despite the fact WoW was incredibly entertaining, had an amazing variation of thousands of items, numerous classes and skills, it all came down to the same thing; Random Number Generator (RNG) and countercomping. Playing mirrorsetups was the only reasonable ''skill-meter'', but the loser always has arguements; Top players crying over imbalanced racial, and of course the RNG crit/resist etc.
Even though I agree WoW Arena is in fact fun, it's also frustrating that roughly 50% of the time you meet setups you simply have the odds against. Also daily leaks of new setups by so called ''top players'' (yes, serennia, ming & co) ruin the surprise for many. Why are players still INSISTING that WoW HAS to become and esport? It simply can't. Even though I actually caught myself liking to spectate the WoW tournaments held so far, the idea of failure always played in my subconcience. (Easiest referring to the dreamhack 3v3 tournament, which was an absolute joke with crazy countercomp setups who were just hilarious and unthinkable in a normal 3v3 ladder).
I also got a general impression that alot of PvP fanatics have really enjoyed previous PvP oriented MMO's like Dark Ages of Camelot, where the PvP was considered ALOT better then in WoW. Now I wonder what the future (with the biggest names Age of Conan and Warhammer Online) will bring, and what other people think about it, and then I'm pointing to ''top arena players''. Even though the promising Siege battles etc. in AoC maybe will never be an e-sport either, I myself am really looking forward to some good Player versus Player environments again.
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