• The Overwatch League will have matches four days a week and each team will play 40 games
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everything about the overwatch league feels so unnatural theyre trying so hard to make this feel like an actual sports league, with divisions and shit
[QUOTE=Untouch;52858068]everything about the overwatch league feels so unnatural theyre trying so hard to make this feel like an actual sports league, with divisions and shit[/QUOTE] why not? [editline].[/editline] esports have insane amounts of money pumped into them and insane amounts of viewers. it's about time they get organized
I hope they can make it work, a lot of people have invested a lot of money in this and if it flops it could hurt esports in general for a while.
[QUOTE=153x;52858206]why not? [editline].[/editline] esports have insane amounts of money pumped into them and insane amounts of viewers. it's about time they get organized[/QUOTE] Only 4 teams, technically 5, are owned by teams that's entirely focused on esports. The other teams are extensions of other sports teams, save two (Houston is owned by an investment group and China's is run by a technology company).
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;52858228]Only 4 teams, technically 5, are owned by teams that's entirely focused on esports. The other teams are extensions of other sports teams, save two (Houston is owned by an investment group and China's is run by a technology company).[/QUOTE] But so is every other organized sports team, that's just how corporate money works. Why's that a problem?
[QUOTE=153x;52858206]why not? [editline].[/editline] esports have insane amounts of money pumped into them and insane amounts of viewers. it's about time they get organized[/QUOTE] Because Blizzard does this with all of their games, forces their own esports scene either by intervention of a current one or from the start of a games life, and it fails every time. WoW Arena series, Starcraft WCS, HotS Global, HS Champ Tour, every single one of those has been horribly fucked up [I]somehow[/I] by Blizzard, either how the tournaments are run or simply because the game itself is handled poorly. Overwatch seems to fall into the latter category.
Overwatch League in itself is not a bad idea. I think the issue is actaully Overwatch. Its been raised from the start to be an Esport. So much of the game screams Casual. Blizzard seems to be trying to force it to be an esport.
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