Profile of IpKaiFung

Dogs >>>> Cats. There is no debate.

So it's intrigued me how in the RTS genre if you want competition the only games are Blizzard games yet in the fighting game genre you have way more games from different developers.

Is it an issue with RTS devs or an issue with the people who play RTS games? It's something I've pondered for a while and I am beginning to believe it's the latter.

So I spent a lot of time researching what those guys did to give their scene an internet presence. By and large their online play is not fit for competition, they still need offline events for competition and they have a lot of them. Two of the biggest weeklies are NLBC and WNF but there are loads all around the US and there was also Winner Stays On which was doing well until the venue got closed down which was a shame.

Compared to RTS where the online play is fit for competition but the barometer is the auto match ladder and there are only tournaments every quarter. So I am thinking about hosting weeklies for CoH at least and maybe other games.

For a long time I've wanted to do an EVO like event for RTS games but it's been exceptionally hard to get the different communities to work together, people also don't like that a scene filled with "button mashing" games managed to make a success of what they had with little to no developer support.

I like the suggestion in the video, fake minefield signs!

There we go again with the blatant fanboyism... This is wishful thinking at its finest and has to stop. First off, the article was written before Sega purchased Relic, so it's completely invalid. You're being blinded by, what I hope is, love for the game and therefore have extremely high expectations as well as lack of objectivity.
No, chances are that Sega will not support the COH competitive community, cause they don't give a fuck about us, to put it bluntly. Sega's a multinational corporation with a long history and is not gonna test the waters like this just cause we WANT THEM TO. Are you THAT naive to think Sega will decide to all of a sudden jump into e-sports with COH when it's had something like Total War for years?
As for the "forum warriors" comment... Pretty funny coming from someone on this forum with 350 posts... I could reply pretty harshly to that, but I reserve trolling for twitch.tv and ingame. I suggest you do that too, so we can all have a nice intelligent discussion here.
Being unrealistic with our expectations of the game doesn't help it in any way, shape or form. It just makes the developers think they're doing everything right, which they clearly are not.

If you actually read the article I don't actually have high expectations of CoH2 getting into the mainstream esports scene. It's actually more of a call to arms to the community and to emulate another successful competitive community that hasn't had any developer support in the past but perhaps I need to re-write it since if you did read it that point obviously didn't come across.

Like I've said many times, if we get developer and publisher support that's awesome. If not then it's not game over.