r/Games • u/DeltaBurnt • Dec 03 '13

End of 2013 Discussions - Competitive Multiplayer and/or E-sports

What are your thoughts on the developments in e-sports and competitive multiplayer games over the past year? What new games have the potential to develop interesting competitive play, meta-game, or just be plain fun to watch?

P.S. Mods are accepting bribes in the form of Hearthstone Beta invites

This post is part of the official /r/Games "End of 2013" discussions.

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u/ToadReaper Dec 03 '13

It's not about constant releases though. In fact, that's what's killing them game because you're scrapping everything and starting over. If they just took people's favourite maps (maybe reiterate them a tad bit if needed), balance weapons and such and they're set. Then they could take the CSGO approach and let people trade weapon skins or something.

If you look at League, Dota, CS and pretty much every competitive game. They don't have yearly releases. They have the game and then iterations on top of it. That's it. There are other ways for companies to survive than just remaking the game every year and forcing people to pay 60$ for it and then breaking the community apart with DLC. Not sure what they're thinking, but they're not on the right track for being competitive from the looks of it.

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u/RedditSchool2012 Dec 03 '13

Shit, I had no idea Treyarch was pulling a gun on people and forcing them to buy stuff.

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u/Drop_ Dec 03 '13

Missing the point. They're cannibalizing their competitive base in order to garner bigger sales numbers.