running it isn't free
the over head isn't exactly massive, but it's still there
if we do drop to a low enough point they will stop providing service, or collapse divisions

super teams are only ever interesting if there's a minimal skill difference between the top team and the next few teams

right now there's a huge powergap between 4g and elevate, to the point where its never really expected that 4g will lose. If 4g could reasonably lose by making mistakes, it'd be different. Super teams in csgo are also less ridic because there's serious reason to try beating them. As it is now, no one is going to scrim 4g or bother to try playing against them because its more fun to compete at mid invite than get rolled by one team.

It's because tf2 was never designed to appeal to serious competitive people, compared to CoD which was always meant to be at least a somewhat serious game, since tone wise its much more serious. I feel that's what leads to people taking the game as a comp shooter more serious. It isn't that it is more similar to its vanilla game or anything. Pre 2009, the game was basically the same between pubs and comp, with the only difference being player count. The rules now adays are the same between 6s and pubs, just with weapon bans.

McJohn does

getting a hold of valve is hard in general tho, especially if ur trying to find out something that isn't related to you getting a refund/not suing them

How many people quit because of split leagues and how many people quit because they were bored of the game? S14 was the last time we didn't have to compete with CSGO or Doter, so the environment was obviously different. Idk how ~50 teams could drop out of the player base completely, that's nearly 300 players who would've had to quit because we decided to switch leagues.

CoD has way more widespread appeal + larger playerbase
a lot of CS players shit on our game for being cartoons for example

maybe there should be more support for other game modes then
5v5 AR could work maybe as an in game lobby format
it'd be different but 6s support is never going to happen anyway

people tried esea pugs for 2 weeks and then got bored

1: Mix^ has been edging it for a few seasons now, part of the reason 4g has been so dominant is because mix^ hasn't been playing as seriously as they used to

2: CS:GO has this too, and the functionality in it is fine. This is a great thing altogether, it allows valve to fund things, without putting actually important content behind a paywall. I pray that we keep the dumb journal thing because if its at all like CS, you'll get free maps in the map pool without having to pay for shit.
2.5: Valve has always had a focus on accessibility. The commentary for HL2 mentions a maze getting cut because it was too confusing. While stuff like trains and planes is easy for people with thousands of hours to grasp and adapt to, it is possible that newer players might not fully understand the objective. Since it would've been a public focused game mode (6s and HL are so insular that I doubt valve considered we'd be interested in it), anything that would've been difficult to pick up would've exacerbated the common pubbie problem that everyone experiences.

3: Matchmaking will probably be some sort of HL with an awful MMR system that is still workable and a decent boost to the HL side of the game. or it could be scrapped
who knows!

ESEA hasn't started yet, and I+my team did not know CEVO would even be running this season, so I think CEVO might've dropped the ball on that. Last few seasons we had sign up drives a week or two before the season started, but apparently CEVO has already come and gone and I never saw anything for it.
im probably done with this game tho valve is fukken permabanning me for being reported on the steam community or something rip

poor form all around
next lan u guys need to read into the arm wresslin meta
u bend the other guys hand and force down :\

well at least im community banned so i can safely not enjoy any of this

did u search tf2?

all of those things apply to every sport to some degree though. out of x participants in a league, only y% are going to continue playing after a season, in CS, TF2, football, or chess. People play, realize they don't like the game enough to put time into it, and quit.

It being harder to get 6 people together isn't inherent to TF2, CS might be easier, but only because of a larger player base allowing people that no one likes to group together. There's only one BAD PERSON in tf2 but if there's like 10 in CS you can just make 2 teams (awful). People obviously get burned out on other games too, otherwise CS would be dominated by people from the 90s, but clearly people quit CS, and not everyone makes it past Open/IM in it either, otherwise invite would need to be substantially larger.

Get more people at the bottom, and the burnout rate wont matter because you'll still have more people filtering through to Open and invite. Short of changing how 6s works, you aren't going to make people who disliked 6s in steel like it in open. You could worry that 50% of tf2 players quit, while only 45% of CS players quit per season, but it wouldn't matter anyway.

You can request a key for it here
http://forums.fortress-forever.com/showthread.php?t=24509
it could be fun
or awful
who knows

i realized the writer died like a year ago and i felt sad

i got so many fucken AR key chains because of these books