Modern Warfare 3 and eSports?
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10 Nov 2011, 10:41
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MLG conducted an interview with with Brett Robins, the creative director at Sledge Hammer games, to find out about the developers slant on the game and its future possibly in MLG itself. Interpreting the answers in a cynical eSports fashion as one might, the name might have changed but its business as usual for Activision and their neglect of eSports.
The interview starts positively with Robins stating that eSports and competitive gaming will one day go mainstream "I think it’s going to happen here. With the multiplayer in Modern Warfare 3, it’s going to blow up because the multiplayer is so good this time around." However as you can see in the quote below, that doesn't mean they've actually done anything nor are they likely to in terms of eSports;
You can read the full interview here on MLG.
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But I kinda still wanna buy it.. :(
EDIT: actually it doesnt matter that much, not like its gonna change much anyway -.-
I'd be very interested in what Tasteless would say to you tomorrow if you had the same chat (behind closed doors, obviously, because he is someone who would never publically state anything bad about it)
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especially black ops took off when they released a fuckedup bugged MP game which 90% of players had 10 fps on servers, then a late patch
hi xbox
Else we still play the stuff we played 5 years ago. Kinda sad but it clearly shows how few competitive gaming and players actually mean to the publishers.
Really hoping Proleague switches to SC2.
I think we are better off ignoring LoL and Sc2 though, FPS titles are easier to concentrate on in terms of competitive release of which I think there has only ever been a handful released, the last as someone has already said was probably CoD4 in 2007.
LoL indeed have an awesome dev team that promotes the game really well - any game would want someone like Riot perhaps barring Sc2 who have just as good already.
Compared to Bethseda or whatever they are called and Endrant seems the fps titles get the cacky post release dev teams.
how ya doin wim?
im doing oki, and u mika? :)
CS 1.6 has some puppet master somewhere, a game does not survive that long without one and it is the probable reason for a game like CoD4 which for all sense and purposes is a good eSports title falling off the radar ... I wouldnt be surprised if someone was pulling strings to make the game slip into the abyss - I remember ESL randomly removing CoD4 in preference for BlackOps in EMS a few seasons ago, considering the scene size was about 10% of the size ;) that seemed a bit weird.
And as much as I think it's dull, LoL is pretty big.
e: I still completely agree with your point.
its a combination of all those 3 previous games they made
This doesnt regard eSports then, only DLC's - eSports titles generally play at the most simplified levels of the game, S&D / SW etc. with limited weapons and upgrades... THIS is the main reason eSports will not take off under the flag of CoD.. as if making multi billions on title releases alone was not enough, they pinch all they can via DLC's at the expense of the eSports market.
On a side note, Jet controls in BF3 are horrible.
Now its up to the modders to supply us with a god promod.
And if I remember correctly that took quite a while, even for cod4. We had all this pam in els, promod in cb thing going on and the creators of promod then decided to massively rebalance their mod when promod3 became promod4. all this happend a year or so after release.
as always we can only be patient and hope for the best. until then we are bound to unlock fancy nameplates and drives some tanks in bf3.
so in my point of view , i wouldnt understand if MW3 wouldnt go big - but ofcourse , i have never played any CoD before so i im not the guy who can compare it to something. strange is that ingame server list shows only about 1000 ppl online nomatter what time. it was written somewhere that 370K copies of CoD was sold in 1 day to PC. bullshit?
anyway - i like it.
Would love to see the game have some sort of comp support tho i dunno if it will be done :( Want something to play :(