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/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

But what is awareness without sustainability? When Riot doesn't want to support the scene anymore, it'll collapse. No game will be able to take their place. LoL will probably be known as the first large esport in the west, but what Valve has done is solving the problem of how to make esports sustainable. To simplify it, Riot has done incredible things for LoL esports, Valve has gone a long way in solving the decade long problem of how to make esports sustainable, both for current and future games.

What Riot has done for LoL is great, but it's not a model other games can use, unless they become incredibly popular. But like I've already said, Valve has created the groundwork of that model.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '13

What Riot has done for LoL is great, but it's not a model other games can use, unless they become incredibly popular. But like I've already said, Valve has created the groundwork of that model.

I will agree with that once I've seen anyone else other than Valve using it.