As all of you noticed we got more tourneys every day. But people don't sign up for them.
Apart from the ESL League we don't have any other events rolling right now that is international, there's been a CoHJP tourney or 2 and a Brazilian tourney and maybe other smaller events like that.
In my opinion it's the lack of promotion from Relic/Sega side, I will explain why.
Actually the CMs have been promoting most of the events on the official CoH Twitter and Facebook.
First of all the in game Main screen is filled with useless news. I mean the twitch integration to coh is great but srsly does it have to be there for a month? No! We already all know that because there is a menu right there to login into twitch. I call this redundant data.... Instead this news section should feature tourneys that will happen ( ESL ) for example.
It's not a bad idea in general, but many if not most of the players are not interested in playing competetively, those who are generally visit the forums etc and this would require coding power (however little doesn't really matter, I'd rather they focus on something else then).
Almost no one signed up for this because its only featured in coh2.org and maybe somewhere in the official forums. Relic has to realize that if they want us to play the game they should help us make the game an Esport. The only thing we see from Relic side is comment like "oh yeah this is a great idea and all" but no promotion of this tourneys is done. ESL is a great starting point, but as far as I know they won't beg us to participate and sooner or later they will just say screw you guys and ignore coh as a competitive game. And our chance will be lost.
It's easy to blame the publisher/developer, but we as a community must be interested in participating in events even if there's not thousands of dollars in prizes, the ESL 1v1 tourney had more people signing up from the official twitter/facebook according to some sources then from places like here and GameReplays, both which featured it on their portals.
Also the spectator mode, I mean come on guys Riot managed to do it why can't you? I mean no one wants to watch replays of some dudes playing in a tourney. No one will take us seriously. You don't go to a football match to watch a playback, you go to see it Live and feel what the players feel without knowing what will happen next. With the current replay option most casters screw up sometimes and tell you what will happen cause they have already seen the replay.
I would like to get an official reply from Noun on this. And explain where Relic/Sega position stands on those ideas.
Riot has a much larger staff and more resources afaik, it's easy to say that Relic should have this or that, but considering the THQ bankruptcy, lower funding and shorter development time, not to mention that there might be 90% of a playerbase who much rather wants to play campaign/compstomps, it's no wonder other things took priority.
Not to say I don't want obs, I do, but it will be here in due time.
Also loads of people watch reruns/playbacks of stuff on TV all the time.
Any caster who pre-watch the games and then spill the beans during a cast before something happens is just, I'm not even gonna say.
TFN doesn't even pre-watch the games, cause it ruins the entertainment, if I already know exactly whats gonna happen and who's gonna win, how exciting will it be when I see it the 2nd or 3rd time, not very much.
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