Dude if you play TF2 you definitely do not represent the average COH2.ORG or coh2 player who is involved in this drama.
I think this basically explains the lack of understanding from your side.
i.e they (and I) are not casual players
Team Fortress 2 has a very active competitive player base, rather small, as with other games, that also often holds small to medium sized tournaments I would say.
The majority of the community however is of course casual and don't really care about the competitive scene of course.
And while yes I lack the experience of playing competitively anymore, I was only really competitive in CoH with the Panzer Elite back in the day when I actually had time and motivation for it after school, I've seen plenty of videos in which people lament ever even going into the competitive scene in the first place because at the beginning it's just some fun with friends or whatever but it quickly spirals out of control to a degree where it starts seriously affecting your life in a very negative way.
There was a very nice video that I watched a few months ago detailing such a story but sadly I can't find it right now but I wouldn't say that I entirely lack any understanding of it.
You are not guilty of murder unless you knew before hand the reason why it was borrowed. Change knife for gun at now it looks way worse.
If you think this logic is stupid, let me remind you that this is how other e-sports organizations handle issues.
For ex: if you ever have ANY VAC ban linked to any account related to yours, you will never be able to participate in any CS Major. Look for Jamppi case (he is suing Valve), where he bought some CS GO accounts for a lan party when he was like 14 years old, and because one of his friends later cheated, he can't participate in any tournament.
It's fine to give your opinion but i think you are confusing factors. RNG and competitiveness. It's human nature that people will sometimes go around rules to trump over others. That applies to all aspects of life. You don't need money for that to be the case, it just adds another reason/factor into the equation.
Not sure what you mean by "colossal" failure. Popularity is mostly based around the number of people playing/watching them. You can't compare a game like SC2 which probable have 50/100 times more active players, more if we consider those who don't play it at all and just watch.
RNG in different degrees appear in many games. AOE2/WC3 have it. You skipped the fact that things like Magic or HS exist. King of the hill FPS have randomized loot. FIFA Ultimate team is a thing (puke). Pokemon is a thing. War Thunder/World of tanks.
Word of wisdom. You don't improve things by burning bridges with people.
I'm not really confusing anything, like I said people can be competitive in anything really if they wish to do so.
My point is that the competitive scene is being taken much too seriously that ends up in drama like here due to the fact that the game is heavily RNG based, perhaps a bit unbalanced and again there's money involved which is an extra factor that ramps up the chance of someone wanting to win at all costs and so reverting to cheating in order to do so.
Starcraft 2 is a perfect example of a competitively focused game, it was built for it, that's why it has minimal balance issues and not to mention RNG.
It's almost impossible to say "Yeah you're lucky that my unit missed there and that's why you won that match" or whatever because everything is exactly calculated, most issues are from human error and not the game derping out or something.
And since you mentioned War Thunder I'm going to end it with a video talking about it's recent "esports ready" meme that itself had similar to CoH2 a few years ago:
, surely you must understand people caring about where the money goes
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