[Day 1] MLG Summer Championship - Page 63

On August 25 2012 07:26 mycro wrote:


He didn't specify he wanted the open bracket, son.

On August 25 2012 07:21 Yonnua wrote:


If I was watching football, I wouldn't be expected to watch a channel which froze every 10 seconds. I also wouldn't be expected to have to change settings on my TV to watch it. If Starcraft 2 and esports as a whole are going to become legitimately mainstream then poor production and accepting low standards shouldn't be the norm. It shouldn't be acceptable to require people to fiddle around in settings which the average person won't have extensive knowledge of because that excludes a part of the population and limits the reach of the sport.

I voiced my concerns with the poor production and said that I wouldn't be watching. At this point three or four people took it upon themselves to rally round and largely make personal attacks about how I should be banned or how I'm overly entitled. Esports succeeding doesn't come from blindly supporting everything in a fanatic manner. It comes from making it an enjoyable experience that everyone has access to. By having poor production that requires workarounds, MLG exclude that access to a large number of people. The people who don't have extensive knowledge of chrome settings, don't have a multitude of browsers and don't go on TL may have been excluded from this event. That hurts the growth of esports.

So does the community accepting a lower standard because then that standard becomes just that; acceptable. Once lower effort becomes acceptable it'll likely become the norm, and having lower access to people on the fringe of esports who may become involved will likely deter them from becoming involved permanently. And when this becomes the standard for events that makes it much harder for esports as a whole to succeed, because a lower standard is commonplace and its a much more enjoyable experience to watch football where you don't need to fiddle with settings to watch.

I'm not angry, and I'm not being overly entitled, but if Starcraft 2 is going to succeed then this level of production is unacceptable. All I stated was that I'm not watching this event when the production is this poor. Accepting this standard would be damaging to esports and I'm not going to be complicit with that.