The title expresses my opinion regarding the current state of the game. I say yes to my own question.
I feel like AoE has turned into a bussiness. It is not a game where people play it for fun anymore. A lot of people just play this game because they feel like it is their job, just like a typical 9 to 5 job.
I feel like the amount of tournaments happening just contribute to this reality more and more.
Everyone is trying to make this game just about tournaments, advertisments and greed. Microsoft, streamers and a certain number of players.
The constant number of tournaments happening is simply cringe, as well the amount of prize pool for the first places. A lot of good players never have the opportunity to take advantage o the prizepools beucase only the top 4 or 5 get 90% of it. Is this fair?
The constant tournaments happening, also take away the importance of the tournament by it self. Everyone is just waiting for the next one and quickly forgets about the last one.
Also, I have read alot of times that this is necessary to keep the game alive and top players playing it. To the people who think like this : Whenever I read this kind of stuff I cant help but thinking that this is a slap in the face of everyone who has been playing the game for alot of time.
I would prefer that the community had a greater sense of it self. We are MUCH MORE THAN THAT. This game has been around for DECADES, and it has always been a game supported by a TRUE COMMUNITY, that did a lot of great things for this game because they just LOVE it. Not because someone pays them too. This game is alive NOT because of the money or the sponsors. Instead, it is alive because there are people that just simply like playing it.
STOP MAKING THE COMMUNITY FEEL LIKE THE ONLY IMPORTANT THING THAT THIS GAME HAS TO OFFER IS BIG / CRINGE and very often hypocritical tournaments with questionable seeds and rules that protects always the some people. This game is much more than that.
I will always prefer playing this game with real fans than watching some repetitive tournaments with the same players , doing the same strategies over and over.
It takes away the beauty and simplicity of the game in my opinion.
Thank you,
I feel like AoE has turned into a bussiness. It is not a game where people play it for fun anymore. A lot of people just play this game because they feel like it is their job, just like a typical 9 to 5 job.
I feel like the amount of tournaments happening just contribute to this reality more and more.
Everyone is trying to make this game just about tournaments, advertisments and greed. Microsoft, streamers and a certain number of players.
The constant number of tournaments happening is simply cringe, as well the amount of prize pool for the first places. A lot of good players never have the opportunity to take advantage o the prizepools beucase only the top 4 or 5 get 90% of it. Is this fair?
The constant tournaments happening, also take away the importance of the tournament by it self. Everyone is just waiting for the next one and quickly forgets about the last one.
Also, I have read alot of times that this is necessary to keep the game alive and top players playing it. To the people who think like this : Whenever I read this kind of stuff I cant help but thinking that this is a slap in the face of everyone who has been playing the game for alot of time.
I would prefer that the community had a greater sense of it self. We are MUCH MORE THAN THAT. This game has been around for DECADES, and it has always been a game supported by a TRUE COMMUNITY, that did a lot of great things for this game because they just LOVE it. Not because someone pays them too. This game is alive NOT because of the money or the sponsors. Instead, it is alive because there are people that just simply like playing it.
STOP MAKING THE COMMUNITY FEEL LIKE THE ONLY IMPORTANT THING THAT THIS GAME HAS TO OFFER IS BIG / CRINGE and very often hypocritical tournaments with questionable seeds and rules that protects always the some people. This game is much more than that.
I will always prefer playing this game with real fans than watching some repetitive tournaments with the same players , doing the same strategies over and over.
It takes away the beauty and simplicity of the game in my opinion.
Thank you,