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Originally Posted by Clayton
anyone else surprised at how mediocre the pro scene still is?
it's like korea took all the good teams, made it very hard to watch, and we never seem to know when the next online tournament is on twitch, and when it's on twitch it's always sub 10k viewers.
very poor effort at building a scene in the first year. no semblance of the overwatch league that was hyped at blizzcon.
honestly i don't mind it, i think overwatch is kind of a boring e-sport unless the hero pool was a lot larger. just surprised that it's still this bad.
I'm not sure if OW would make it as is but they are heavily distorting the market right now, they've declared they are going to buy out everyone's contracts (and then semi-threatened teams not to sign new players so they could keep the buyout costs down).
They haven't released any concrete details about the league except the LA team price tag is a proposed $10m meaning all existing esports teams are essential out of the game (excluding VC backing).
So existing franchises can't invest, the big sports teams aren't really setup to take advantage of a venture like this and Blizz's execution is looking quite suspect meaning those who could purchase a team are looking at this pretty skeptically.
So all in all, we're probably seeing less investment in developing the scene then you would see organically. I think OW potentially has some problems but in a vacuum I'd they probably aren't unsolvable however the chances they don't get resolved has gone up.