A thought piece I have no desire to share with a more fitting

are you looking at it from the competitive aspect?
cs:go is the best esport because even non-players can watch it and get what it's about
i feel like dota clones would be better if the player base was rid of all the kids.

>>35973506
overall. I'm curious. Without the terminal mess that is comp level moba play would the normans have entered the picture even sooner?

After all csgo is easier for Chad Everyman to pick up and play then alol

>>35973506
>cs:go is the best esport because even non-players can watch it and get what it's about
I don't like CS:GO but I fully agree with this. It's the most welcoming spectator sport because everyone can tell what's going on. There's no magic or abilities or arbitrary design features that confuse newcomers.

To be honest, I am more curious as to what competitive gaming/esports will look like once we get to a level where virtual reality technology is similar to The Matrix.

>>35973506
I've played a lot of cs:go and dota. I really enjoy watching pro dota 2 tournaments but I was never really able to get into watching cs:go. When the camera is showing the player's perspective you're missing what is going on in the rest of the map and in a zoomed out view you're missing the skill that the player is actually demonstrating from the view point the game is played it.

In dota 2 it's easy to catch all of the action in the game from the top down view and I can understand what the player is doing because that's the view the game is played it. I started watching dota during ti3 and since then the camera men have gotten a lot better. They do a good job a keeping track of all lanes while doing things like switching Fog Of War on and off to show what the players can actually see while a play is going on an bringing up relevant graphs during down time.

>>35973781
That's fair and I tend to agree. I like to have a wider picture when it comes to spectating fps games. The narrow focus would work for extreme twitch shooters though, you'd quickly loose focus watching a Q3A match without some kind of second display with an overhead of the map

>>35973781
I think most FPS games these days have third person camera views for tourneys don't they? I've seen it for Overwatch at least. Though I will agree it still doesn't provide as much detail as the aerial view in League/DotA.