Ade
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I find the "front end" of Overwatch to be fake and annoying. I think it's because the game was developed with eSports in mind. It's high gloss, to be sure, but it seems like no actual joy went into developing the game. It's like Blizzard (the Disney of gaming) put a bunch of psychologically proven, money-making variables into a soulless machine and it spit out a game. In short: there was never a time when Overwatch was simply intended to be a normal, enjoyable video game. The game wasn't going to have to "prove itself" because it had big money and eSports behind it from day one. This irritates me because it skipped the entire journey, which is the most interesting part.
Early eSport games grew out of a natural progression of normal players becoming more serious about a game over time and learning its nuances because they LOVED the game. However, newer games come out and it's a "race to the meta" on day one. The initial discovery phase of the game is gone. There will never again be a time like early PSO, where the minor details are figured out gradually and where there's a chance that even a normal player might discover something interesting. The tryhards who make gaming their full time job will discover everything before you even get the game disc out of the plastic wrap.
This makes gaming better for those who actually participate in eSports and win fame and money, but I think it makes gaming worse for the other 99.9% of players and adds unnecessary pressure.
I just find this annoying. Professional sports only have a very marginal effect on the lower levels of the sport below the collegiate level, but eSports are greatly pervasive to gaming as a whole, and I think it's making the games worse and less enjoyable. Maybe we're just not meant to be happy =/
Early eSport games grew out of a natural progression of normal players becoming more serious about a game over time and learning its nuances because they LOVED the game. However, newer games come out and it's a "race to the meta" on day one. The initial discovery phase of the game is gone. There will never again be a time like early PSO, where the minor details are figured out gradually and where there's a chance that even a normal player might discover something interesting. The tryhards who make gaming their full time job will discover everything before you even get the game disc out of the plastic wrap.
This makes gaming better for those who actually participate in eSports and win fame and money, but I think it makes gaming worse for the other 99.9% of players and adds unnecessary pressure.
I just find this annoying. Professional sports only have a very marginal effect on the lower levels of the sport below the collegiate level, but eSports are greatly pervasive to gaming as a whole, and I think it's making the games worse and less enjoyable. Maybe we're just not meant to be happy =/
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