Competitive gaming has millions of fans. Its biggest stars earn six-figure salaries. Yet it's nowhere to be found on American television. You may happen upon bowling, lumberjack contests, or even rock-paper-scissors while channel surfing, but nary a match of StarCraft or League of Legends.
Do you remember what gaming was like before Fortnite entered the gaming space? One of the biggest arguments was about loot boxes. Now we have conversations about crossovers, battle passes, and community outreach.
Idk. Loot boxes did disappear and battle passes and in game purchases are all cosmetic. We get free weapons and maps post launch, any gameplay affecting content. I could care less about all the cosmetics.
I absolutely hated the days where weapons were locked behind a less than 1% chance lootbox pull where it'd take 5+ hours to have enough tokens to do a single pull and lazy remastered/remake maps cost you $15 each wave or $50 for the season pass that you didn't know what you'd get and these maps were only available to those that bought it so you get a smaller pool of players match with.
Call of duty can simply not copy the bad aspects of Fortnite? Or is that too out of this world? Like COD, a realistic shooter-just HAD to have Nicki Minaj running around? Or super heroes?
I prefer the battle passes with free maps than the $50 season pass that divided the community. I definitely feel that Fortnite had some influence on CoD having loot boxes with Blackout being introduced in 2018 with Black Ops 4.
Actually Fortnite bullshit ruined Unreal Tournament. Epic are sellouts and I will never have that shitty store on my PC, fuck them and that shit bag Tim Sweeney. At least the community keeps the games alive, I still play UT2004.
The Black Ops Gulf War leaks continue with a list of weapon descriptions giving more info on what you can expect from new and returning weapons.
Recently, players of Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone were met with a new bundle featuring the B.E.A.S.T. Glove, inspired by King Kong's armament in the Godzilla x Kong movie. However, the $80 price tag attached to this themed accessory left many Call of Duty fans feeling underwhelmed.
Morons that allow themselves to be milked continuously by this company is the definition of irony.
Spend more $$ and you'll end up In easier lobbies so you win both ways when ya spend that cash
Controversy in the COD community feels like it happens within an alternate timeline. Activision will take the piss with something, there will be a momentary fuss about it, and then they will forget about it and carry on anyway. Repeat this cycle literally every year for the rest of time.
I'm so tired of hearing about what they're doing with this game, its never going to change and it's never going to value the consumer over money, furthermore the people who engage so heavily in the microtransactions I guess allegedly are having a blast and can't wait to do it some more this year when the new version of the game drops.
If it's done professionally yes, if not no. I don't want B-list actors making our hobby look childish. The media gaming media already does that. The question is how entertaining is this. Some would ask themselves "why watch? when you could just go play the game yourself?" It would have to be done just right.
I don't see why not. Competitive gaming would be a step up from most of the crap that's aired on TV nowadays.
It probably wouldn't be given a chance.
Sports work well because you have a team to support and you put your devotion in it. Watching any sport without any interest in supporting a single team becomes boring as hell. Thats why they create "home teams" so you get behind them.
Gaming would have to do the same. People will need to find their teams, and get behind them. Otherwise watching people play video games is rather boring. So if people don't get behind teams fast enough, it will just get canned.
I remember (i think it was GameSpot) used to do something with it and I loved watching it. I will say I rather watch this than pretty much every sport except hockey.
I also agree with above. It needs to be actual gamers not "famous people" because that's just stupid to watch, let alone annoying.
"how do you do that!"
You just press a button buffoon!
No.
Games are about interaction, doing things yourself. That is the very reason they became so popular. Watching them is PASSIVE. If i want to watch passive things I'll watch a movie.
Competitive gaming is utterly boring to watch, either its RTS, FPS or fighting games. Fighting games have some epic moments, but its not appealing enough.
But a Video Game Channel would be a good idea. With news, events, reviews, previews and competitive gaming, why not. They could also have some youtubers around. But i guess thats too expensive and wouldnt have the effect people wanted (why watch it on TV when you can watch it on your pc?).