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GW2 and eSports, Do You Want It?

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First of all: I’m surprised that there has not come any replies but mine (may be it’s bugged or something for me).

Second and OnT: I, personally, do not feel that the game engine is good enough for eSports. The biggest and the most important factor in any game which has eSports in them is the instant reactions and a way to involve advanced strategies. Now i’m not very sure about the strategies, but from what i can tell i (as an elementalist) just runs around and try to keep everything on cd for the highest amount of damage. May be i’m doing something, may be not. The thing is that i does not feel like i’m doing any difference at all. I can’t see the damage I do, not in a way that i notice it any how, which i find very annoying and i expect it to be even harder if spectating a game. The general gameplay is just a lot of A. Aoe spells all over the place or B. A melee profession which spams all his spells, showing nothing at all.
About things being instant: It’s not. Perhaps that wont affect the viewer of eSports as much as the players playing it, but any sensible man would see/feel that the feel of GW2 is a lot slower than the feel of any other competitive game (like cs 1.6, WoW, SC2, Quake, Halo or similar), where everything really is instant.

So conclusion: Sure, it would be fun to see GW2 as a competitive eSport, although i do not believe that the game is meant for it.