i agree with op’s take but only in the sense that games made with the intent to be esports end up being antithetical to what makes games enjoyable, at least for me. it kinda feels new pvp games are exclusively targeting competitive gamers and the casual online pvp space is shrinking or being driven to older games.
but that might just be my own aversion to being told to take my own life by an angry teenager when I make a mistake while playing with a digital toy to enjoy my time off work.
I can kinda see it with how hyper competitive games have gotten at the detriment of fun. Now we have match making with hidden elo vs back in the day just playing on dedicated servers. But it’s not all bad.
Hyper competitiveness has always been there, I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the advent of esports. And elo with its many variants came about because of other issues (like smurfing, which is the absolute opposite of competitiveness).
That’s a weird take. And I say that as somebody who doesn’t watch it myself
i agree with op’s take but only in the sense that games made with the intent to be esports end up being antithetical to what makes games enjoyable, at least for me. it kinda feels new pvp games are exclusively targeting competitive gamers and the casual online pvp space is shrinking or being driven to older games.
but that might just be my own aversion to being told to take my own life by an angry teenager when I make a mistake while playing with a digital toy to enjoy my time off work.
I can kinda see it with how hyper competitive games have gotten at the detriment of fun. Now we have match making with hidden elo vs back in the day just playing on dedicated servers. But it’s not all bad.
Hyper competitiveness has always been there, I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the advent of esports. And elo with its many variants came about because of other issues (like smurfing, which is the absolute opposite of competitiveness).