Contenders teams

#18

robokun87

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Exactly, they are making money and putting half of it back into tournaments, how much do you think Blizzard have made over the years since they started with D2 and SC1 and how much have they put into tournaments or e-sports in general? Blizzard have gamers money yet what have they done with it? how much money has Blizzard and Activision made in the last 20 years from gamers money and how much have they put back into e-sports?

How many tournaments have Blizzard themselves or officially backed for any game they have created? never mind expansion packs, SC1 was one of the most popular games on the planet yet had like 1 or something didn't it? WC3:TFT didn't have any yet it was huge, Quake 3 didn't have any yet it was huge, LoL/DotA doesn't have any yet are huge.

This is e-sports bro, we don't want expansions we want e-sports, we want tournaments all over the world with the best players/teams competing for juicy prizes.

#19

wQnxy

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I am agree with you about e-sports. Would be great to know you can watch some minor OW tournaments each week or two with some mroe or less known teams playing. On the other hand - CSGO wasnt much popular till Valve announced the 1st major (it was a godo move to milk more money from gamers, same goes to Dota / International; you should accept it aswell).
As far as i know - valve didnt sponsor any of the CS1.6 (and lesser version) events. All of em were sponsored by ESL / Intel (aka IEM) / CPL / etc.
I think we just need to wait and see the next Blizzard movements. I "joined OW community" just after watching Blizzcon's OW (which i am liked so much).And right now i am a bit sad that OW is not nearly that competitive as SC2 / CSGO or DotA :c

edt. Not sure how is Activision connected to the Blizzard =]

#20

robokun87

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Really? I thought CS was popular right off the bat considering 1.6 was hugely popular, sure it got more popular thanks to betting and then skins but it was still popular enough, Valve found a way to take CS into the main stream and did so, whether they milked money from gamers or not doesn't mean shit, they found a way to make money and put a big chunk of it back into e-sports, tell me what Blizzard have done, they've made a big chunk of money and done what with e-sports?

You didn't know Activision bought Blizzard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment

Between the massive successes of these two companies in the past decade they have put next to nothing back into e-sports, even this OWL isn't Blizzard putting money into it, it's everyone else doing that.

Talk shit about Valve all you want, fact is they are making mad bank, pumping millions back into both games and have games a million times more popular than anything Blizzard have ever achieved, I love Blizzard games but when it comes to actual e-sports Valve take a massive shit all over them.

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wQnxy

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It was laggy/buggy/poorly balanced and optimized on the start. Lots of teams didnt want to switch to it from Source/1.6. Valve was slowly fixing stuff and made the game better in the end. But the main problem is still here, which makes the game enjoyable just on big screen for me (VAC works badly, cheaters jsut everywhere :c).

Nope, i didnt :o That's explain why did they add Destiny 2 on BlizzApp. Also didnt know Blizzard owns MLG..

True. And not. If Blizzard would not put money into new projects/expansion - we will never get OW. So, the 2 sides of the coin. Also they puts a lot of money into CGIs (SC2's jsut makes me want to watch em again w/o palying the game itself and i enjoy those short movies about OW), comic books, books itself (i never played WoW, but i read all books exapt Malfurion, this one is OMEGABORING) and other stuff.