Planetside 2 and Professional Gaming - Page 8

Tatwi · 2012-06-09, 06:55 PM

Can't a game just be a game?

This "e-sport" thing is laughable. Sure, the quake LAN tournaments of the late 90s were cool, but that was because normal people came from all over the place to battle it out, not some corporate sponsored whatevers doing corporate sponsored blah.

Tournaments for actual players? Great! E-sportifying Planetside 2? /vomitcopter

Espion · 2012-06-09, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by goneglockin

Yep. Competitive games are more about lining up your shots and dodging people shooting at you than micro-managing an artificial cone of fire and finding cover.

It looks like that's the way it's always gonna be too and im glad that not much in the way of e-sports is seen with modern consolized shooters.

CoD is not big at all in the esport scene, please at least make an effort to have some idea what you're talking about.

Pride · 2012-06-09, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Espion

CoD is not big at all in the esport scene, please at least make an effort to have some idea what you're talking about.

That's not true in the slightest, out of the 6 professional E-sport leagues that have an FPS in them, 4 of them contain at least one incarnation of the CoD franchise. Halo however does have a larger E-sports following, but that's not to say CoD has no place on the E-sports circuit.

cryosin · 2012-06-09, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by ArmedZealot

Pretty much. And for "professional" gaming to exist you need prizes money and sponsers etc. How do you handle a team with 100 or even 20-30 players with that stuff?

Your right, but at the end of the day i think people would still compete.

Because the monetary gain would be minimal, the players would be playing mainly for fame and glory.

I'll paraphrase day 9:

"if people cast it, it can be an esport."

We saw TB casting random people sucking at the e3 demo, I could easily see that scale of fighting going on.

You make a new smaller continent, put two or three outfits on there, and they duke it out.

You would probably wan't to implement some kind of win condition, but a sub-resource would also work.

Ie: you gain this new resource for as long as you control a base.

At the end of the timer the team with the most of the above resource wins.

Simple, easy, and works.

If people cast it and watch it then its gonna be an esport. It doesnt matter if the players arent spending every waking hour preparing, its still going to be awesome to watch.

A game like planetside is actually perfect. It would be like watching a journalist record a war.

Outfit wars is honestly good enough for me, but that could easily spawn a new style of esports or at least a shoutcasting event.

Zulthus · 2012-06-09, 07:53 PM

Lol @ "Professional Gaming"

Baneblade · 2012-06-09, 07:57 PM

I think there should be a PlanetSide Olympics. Annually at most.

Pride · 2012-06-09, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

I think there should be a PlanetSide Olympics. Annually at most.

Only if it comes paired with a PlanetSide Para Olympics.

Baneblade · 2012-06-09, 08:04 PM

:P

Outfits would be the 'nations'.

Espion · 2012-06-09, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Pride

That's not true in the slightest, out of the 6 professional E-sport leagues that have an FPS in them, 4 of them contain at least one incarnation of the CoD franchise. Halo however does have a larger E-sports following, but that's not to say CoD has no place on the E-sports circuit.

It's there because Activision puts up prize money for the bigger tournaments, but it gets very few viewers. Even TA is more popular than any of the CoDs since MW1 and that has pretty much dwindled off too. Current MW3 comp is mostly 3v3, it's boring as fuck, and a good match is lucky to get 1000 viewers on twitch.tv, it's a joke

DerFurst · 2012-06-09, 08:06 PM

No PS pro gaming. PS is amazing because of the logistics and real war tactics involved in the metagame. "MLG" metagame revolves around knowing every inch of each map and the best way to kill without dying.

Kurtz · 2012-06-09, 08:32 PM

All you really need is someone like TotalBiscuit doing a shoutcast once a week from random servers and people could watch. That would be so much better than instancing, as it would never split the pop.

This game is already a epeen contest. With the new social tools in place it should be off the charts.

psychosiszz · 2012-06-09, 08:34 PM

I think you've missed the whole point of planetside. Its about mass fighting and huge battles on a persistent and constantly changing world.

Nash · 2012-06-09, 08:39 PM

Planetside is not an "e-Sport" and will never be.
I wonder why certain people feel the need to turn everything into an e-Sport... it's totally ridiclious :\

Goku · 2012-06-09, 09:51 PM

I still want to see an area that outfits can duke it out without outside interference from outside groups. That area can even double for Outfits to train as well. I don't think it would be that hard at some point after release to make a way scaled down map to allow for such matches or training grounds.

Tapman · 2012-06-09, 11:45 PM

Another thread of mine resurrected, cool. Honestly, I just wish someone would pay me to play this game, enough to cover my bills.

It also deserves mentioning that if Planetside 2 is half as successful as it could be and as we want it to be, you can all bet your asses that the game will evolve to accommodate the people who want to take it more AND less seriously.