It isn't just platinum that thinks the game will be worse off. Sizable amount of invite agrees, but the opinion isn't gonna be popular among people who aren't playing at top levels because it comes off as 'greedy'. Why would someone want to play for less money in a less competitive environment? Why would someone want to do that AND deal with the complication that isn't guaranteed good quality, will suffer from community movement, etc. when everything works at esea RIGHT NOW? This is a completely logical opinion to have if you weigh playing tf2 over whatever esea's done.
When you're at the top currently, you have to fight to get a scrim partner by scheduling with another team long beforehand. In my stint on a mid invite team if one team couldn't play that day, and you were to last to look for a scrim, you don't get to play either. Cause everyone below is just plain too bad to practice/have fun against.
This is the current standard of playing the game. Now imagine a shift to a new league. People quit for various reasons: greed, no lan, whatever. This will happen, even if you hate these people. Considering the likelihood of quitting is naturally skewed with players on the topend, you can assume this will fragment invite even more.
As for esea itself. what exactly do any of you think this evil malware driver is doing? modern methods of getting cheats to bypass anticheats involve installing drivers to work at the kernel level of a computer. in order to deal with this... you make an anticheat that installs a driver to work at the kernel level. if you think they were doing bitcoin mining at the driver level you're wrong and retarded. not uninstalling is admittedly pretty dumb, but it presents the opportunity to grab data on someone uninstalling cheats to mess with stuff when they think esea is gone.
The bitcoin thing is actually real interesting because it's so overblown. one can ignore that lpkane never OK'd the code in the first place since no one wants to believe that. I want to ask: why do you care? What did it do that makes you care so much?
Assume that you left esea client on all day (you don't), that you left your computer idle all day (you never do nerd), and that your computer doesn't go into sleep cause that's gonna turn it off (possible, but not very smart).
if your power costs 16 cents / kwh(this is above US avg), and the 50% of cpu usage is approx 50watts:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/4HQPY.png
if you do all that for 24 hours for a month, you have costed yourself $6 in power. youre probably saving something like four times the watts by just sleeping in the first place, so it seems kind of retarded to care about the money considering youre already shitting it out anyways. 99% of you used the client twice a week, played your matches, closed the client. Netting no power increase at all.
The bottom line is that esea works. people pay, people play, and its the best tf2 will get unless valve steps in. If you don't care about that for moral reasons, that's fine. Realize that the competitive scene will take a hit for it and do it anyways. Realize that the best case is that you will end up with an inferior league, and that the worst case is the scene getting fucked up real real bad. This isn't an attempt to be passive aggressive, the free market will actually decide how things go down. You shouldn't be surprised that other people don't care and would rather just play regardless of esea being shit though.