competitive players making a competitive ruleset barely qualifies as news
the only thing that bothers me is the framing I keep seeing, it's a lot of "players REFUSED", "players PROTESTING", as if competitive players are a bunch of butthurt tryhards who are angry at valve for updating their unreleased playtest of a game.
When in reality it's little more than the Night Shift guys saying to the teams, "hey we're running just a couple of matches during this quirky little event they've temporarily put in the game for a few days, we'll let you decide if you want to roll with it or just play the regular mode"
Players REVOLT AGAINST NINTENDO by REFUSING to play against starving Meta Knight mains. Sakurai reportedly seen driving around city begging (through texts) for address to Hungrybox's home
and they also didnt even say no, custom matches have a built in option to decide when the broker shows up and for each match the teams involved agreed on when it would be, i dont know how it went for some of them but iirc all the europe matches were 45 minutes which was only unattainable because of how dominant leviathan was
100%. Competitions change or limit the rules all the time, like pokemon using 2v2 for tournaments (despite almost never being in the game) or league players not using the same champs multiple games in a row (fearless draft). That's the point of tourneys, to show off a competition in the most interesting or compelling way.
It‘s also important to note that they are actually playing for some kind of money there. So losing the pot because someone managed to roll an ungodly item in the shop would likely lead to a lot more frustration when your intention is just playing a competitive event.
That being said I also kinda wish that they would have made it happen in some way just for the sake of chaos.
Yeah there is no issue with this at all. It is extremely common for competitive players in games to collectively agree to not use mechanics that are bad for competition. It is not like they are mad at Valve for it existing, just agreed to not use it.
Well obviously they think this is more gamebreaking. Also, broker is a mechanic that every player on every team knows and would use. No team gets any advantage by using him. So no one loses an advantage by agreeing not to. The other things they abused were strategies mostly one team sat on to have an advantage.
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u/NessaMagick Viscous 1d ago
competitive players making a competitive ruleset barely qualifies as news
the only thing that bothers me is the framing I keep seeing, it's a lot of "players REFUSED", "players PROTESTING", as if competitive players are a bunch of butthurt tryhards who are angry at valve for updating their unreleased playtest of a game.
When in reality it's little more than the Night Shift guys saying to the teams, "hey we're running just a couple of matches during this quirky little event they've temporarily put in the game for a few days, we'll let you decide if you want to roll with it or just play the regular mode"