EPTWelcoming Halo to the Liquid Family - Page 15
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digmouse
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giftdgecko
United States2126 Posts
On May 20 2015 17:32 Velr wrote: The Thing is... Afaik there is no such thing as "console" E-Sports in europe. There is no FCG (or it is extremly small). I have never heard of a "console" LAN or anything like this. The only reason MLG got "known" over here is because of SC2, before that I didn't know it even existed. At least in Switzerland/Germany/Austria there is also like absolutely no Arcade "culture". It is/was basically all CS, Quake, SC/BW, WC3, SC2, Dota/Lol. The whole "console" E-Sports sounded just strange and funny to me. It just doesn't exist (or is hiding itself extremly well) "here"... Perspective from Europe is great, but please for the love of god stop with so many "quotation marks".... They are very "unnecessary". Just because the game is primarily an NA game doesn't mean it's not worth a look into. With CoD falling off and Halo possibly taking off in the future with the MCC finally getting debugged (or finished depending on how you look at it) and Halo 5 having pro players influence taken into account, it could very easily be the flagship game for MLG again and up there with LoL | ||
NonY
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On May 20 2015 18:52 maartendq wrote: The world is a whole lot bigger than the 10 million square kilometer-area called the United States of America. Console esports are nonexistent over here. Except you know about Halo as an esport, and the Crownlol guy was feigning ignorance like BisuDagger guessed, as proven by this post of his: On January 23 2012 02:29 Crownlol wrote: League had higher viewership than SC2 this time? Usually its nowhere close- good to see both communities growing! (I'm a fan of both games, of course) If I remember, MLG Providence had the highest viewership numbers in 2011- with SC2 bringing the majority. The growth of the MOBA fanbase bodes well for pc gaming, since right at sc2 launch even Halo was bringing more viewers (shudder). I would hope that SC2's current place in the esports landscape would be humbling enough for SC2 fans to respect other games that are limited regionally and have relatively small audiences... a perspective that shouldn't even be necessary in the first place because as video game competition fans we should already feel humbled by sports. The argument "esports are a joke, why don't you play and watch real sports?" should be dumb enough and easy enough to apply when comparing particular games as well. If there are some competitions you like and respect and others that you don't, then just go have fun with the ones you like and don't drop disrespectful comments among the fans of competitions you don't like. | ||
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Gingerninja
United Kingdom1339 Posts
On May 20 2015 20:23 Poopi wrote: Halo was quite big in France back in the days though. A lot of LANs, WCG, etc... The UK had tournaments and Lans also. 4Kings who used to be a fairly large Esports clan (primarily CS1.6 i think) picked up a Halo team and sent them to MLG a few times. The UK player at WCG 2k3 and 2k4 placed fairly well too. Halo was primarily NA focused because of MLG, but the online cups and stuff had people from all over the world. People forget how small the user base was back then, Xbox live was only launched a year before Halo 2 and a lot of places still didn't even have good enough broadband to run it properly. | ||
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giftdgecko
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