Profile of MarcDHall

Are you sure you don't mean what a tiny fraction of players who call themselves the community think is important?

There seems to be a vibe that their business model should be:

1) Make 1v1 perfect
2) Appeal to competitive players
3) Magic
4) Sell loads of games
5) Swim in dosh

That's the impression I get on these types of forums. Maybe I'm wrong. But it's a self perpetuating fantasy.

People watch eSports because they play the games, they don't play games because someone plays eSports. eSports are just reinforcement. Brand awareness. eSports makes literally no sense to someone who doesn't own the game.

As far as I'm aware the game box definitely lists 8 player games as a feature. And people want to play big games. They don't want to play creepy 1v1s with randoms. They want to play with their friends in bigger games. The culture of turning noses up at what most players want to do is just that... culture. And that's going to have to change if the game is going to be popular and for Relic to have any reason to care about it's development long-term.