Let’s see how Blade and Soul works since they also have world championship, and also, we can check that, after next patch, people would come back or not. so we can check our twitch viewer would at least recover 1000~2000 people level. Actually, it should be around 3000~4000 level to become at least smite level of esports marketshare : this means it would have possibility to become more famous if the game has 3000~4000 fixed number of viewers, we can determine it becuz we saw that smite hit top5 in number of twitch viewers during their world championship.
If either one of above two doesn’t work, i am pretty sure mmorpg genre itselt can never be success in esports market. In this case Anet seriously need to go like league of legends style that has no pve and no wvw but only offers pvp espurt, like smite online but with much more build diversity and much more classes and much more character customization that GW series traditionally offers, which smite doesn’t offer. Like combining GW’s special advantage with general esports ideas.
Anyway, if those 2 doesn’t work like an year later or 2 years later something, just forget mmo esports. Anet will soon decide between serious selection between two cases if it falls to be fail, that are,
1. Making the game to be complete esports oriented that doesn’t have pve or wvw.
2. Keep current business model but never pushes its players to be fascinated in esports or league stuffs. It makes players compeltely annoyed which results in making many of them leave the game when it fails.
But one thing that is absolutely right is that you can never say proudly that “i am PRO mmo-esports gamer!” right in front of real progamer who deals with games like League of legends. It just feels like being troll, you know.
The Korean Gamer (Best Warrior NA)
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