Leaving StarCraft (IdrA) - Page 18

On February 04 2014 05:43 BillGates wrote:
Yeah its not worth it. There is no money to be made is esports and Blizzard actually ruined it with the global tournament they started doing.

Before there was Dreamhack, MLG, ESL, NASL, IGN, Asus ROG, Red Bull, etc... but Blizzard had to step in and ruin everything and only have like 1 tournament that is very boring, very predictable, unknown casters, no audiences, if it was bad it they were doing it.

So Blizzard ruined esports, at least SC2 esports on their own. They should not have stepped in and tried to consolidate tournaments as it pretty much destroyed the already declining scene.

Right now no one watches SC2 anymore, because its not interesting, there aren't enough different tournaments, the best casters are not hired and the duo of Tastosis has gotten boring frankly, after several years of non stop casting, they are boring to me.

That is not to mention that Blizzard made SC2 worse than BW, like its not as fun as BW was. The balance is weird, there is not enough variety, not enough skill based, not enough big moves, big spells, like storm was in BW, was EMP was in brood War, like Reaver hits were, plague hits, etc...

In SC2 you wait for 10 minutes for the 2 players to get their deathball and then A-move and the winner is the one with the better hard counters. That is SC2 in a nutshell.

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On February 04 2014 03:14 IdrA wrote:
A couple thousand dollars for a weekend of talking about a game seems nice, but when it happens maybe once a month it is not a good way to live.