mustardoverlordit's always adorable when people around here create this giant vortex of false hope around every new potentially competitive fps, class-based arena shooters especially
saw it with brink, saw it with tribes, saw it with shootmania, saw it with the 10,000 attempts to "revive" quake-style gameplay, and here we are
I guess it's just cuz everyone who stuck around comp tf2 for so long is pretty good at generating false hope
here's a bold prediction of my own: there will NEVER be a truly great competitive fps ever again
hell, there have only been two ever to begin with, plus they keep getting more and more dumbed down
once the power to shape the competitive side of a game transferred from the player base back to the developers and publishers of the world, esports were inevitably going to be dumbed down like crazy, sad but true
Funny that this coincided with esports going huge in the world dont you think?
May it be because the playerbase you talk about wasnt the big bunch of people that played but rather the more extreme and devoted of all the players thus shaping the games to make them ultra hardcore and unreachable?:D