a competitive player is someone who plays for competitive doesn't have anything to do with being payed money. the word your looking for is professional or pro.
I agree entirely, and that is a very good point to distinguish on.
And yet we hwve posters here with the sentiment that "competitive players" wont bother with this game, because there is less potential to be a "pro player", who earns his livelihood with it. Its an antiquated and misguided notion. Earning money bynplaying a game, and competetiviness in playing a game, are two completely different and unrelated factors in this era.
This game, in and of itself, is plenty competetive.
Earning money on it, however fails compared to streaming big "assets" and playing Minecraft.
They are confusing the competetiveness of the game, with the lucrativeness of playing it, (or more importantly, of streaming it) which is a matter of its marketing and promotion (and company funds to allocate in support), as well as personal charisma instream like big "assets"/Pewdiepie, inorder to graduate from competetive to "pro".
Its an easy confusion to make, but false, nonetheless.
Hate on CoH2/Relic for not being more popular, so as to earn viewer revenue, so as to be "pro", by all means. Fair enough.
But hating on it for the misconception that somehow each snd every single CoH2 match ever played is not competetive, nor the game itself in multiplayer vs, is categorically false.
CoH2, in multiplayer vs, is categorically a competetive game.
Is it competetive in the games market? Somewhat. Relic could certainly do more, and this enormous prize pot promised to ESL (hopefully soon to coh2.org) is a step in that direction.
Is it competetive in the "pro" market? Not unless you have enormous "assets" or are Pewdiepie.
Glad you brought this up, for purposes of dinstinguishing the many tenses and misused applicarions of this term.
@Ipkai: Ok, man. ESL project though, is demonstrably and provenly a complete disaster. That much is clear. Good luck to whatever you do next. See you in another lifetime.