Red Bull sees these events like an one time show to burn their brand into people's minds. They do it like that very often in all kind of sports. Even a single huge day would be enough for them I bet, if that were possible. Best example was that 40 km jump. Just a huge event the whole world...
clinging to AoE2 payed off in the end for the top4-5 players. Now they're getting big paychecks after paychecks in a tiny playerpool, even without serious effort since the game lacks new players. In addition to the sad state of RTS overall, which made good old AoE2 popular again on twitch. Also...
That and absolutely zero talents in this game. The same players each tournament. How exciting to watch Viper against Hera and Tatoh against Larry for the 20th time during a year.
But I understand people living off of that want to keep the hype going. It's easy money.
Well many underestimate how little that amount of money means to Microsoft. They probably have a bigger piggy box for spontaneous barbecues than they spend on Aoe. There is probably not one game close to the ratio of viewers and sponsoring as AoE2 has. (Just my feeling, not actual knowledge)
Maybe, maybe not. We don't know it for sure. That's why you prevent conflict of interest in businesses in the first place unless greed takes over your decency.
A meaningless phrase that only serves to keep the good mood for Aoe2 tournaments going. What else should they have said?
"Most of the same faces for over a decade in AoE2 tournaments now, because the game lacks young talents with the determination to get to the very top, so those mentioned have...
Well, there is less practicing but still feeling comfortable and also less practicing to an extend where you start losing skill. Also his non preparation was a surety for a good laugh in interviews, so I'm not sure how much of it was sincere or a meme.
No doubt his preparation was always less...
No motivation, maybe even less time than before, AM teammates who train and prepare a fraction of GL's (if any).
His decline began after he joined the army. He never was the most motivated AoE2 player to begin with, but his skill compensated somewhat for it, especially on open maps where he...
The choices of the very top were always money driven, never community or scene. Or do you think for example Viper's and T90's choice of sreaming before a few hundred people instead of thousands were anything other than money grab.
The very top are exploiting Aoe2's niche RTS status for some time...
Nili's community backlash was absoltely foreseeable. He was the official AoE tournament prizepool allocater and he allocated a big part of it to his own tournament for AoE4, that only lived on it's undeserved hype and was already in a decline at that time.
If you take certain positions in life...
Yeah on mobile is not easy. PC on the other hand it's simple Ublock Origin, add a filter and a script from pixeltris/Twitchadsolutions and you don't see ads again (with Firefox at least.)
I remember when and especially HOW Youtube and twitch started. The goals from both were simply to give...
Sounds like a fairy tale! If an Aoe2 tournament stream title does not contain at least a five-digit number, I don't watch it! Because I only get hyped, if people I don't know personally win a lot of money I don't care about!
This thread shows exactly what is wrong today. Everyone just searching for a way to make money, everything else is on the back seat.
The day I see advertisement on an AoE2 map is the day I quit the online modus and stop watching tournaments.
would be interesting to know if facebook's still throwing money out of the window or did they finally accept that the majority of people don't switch from twitch to facebook just because of a streamer.
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