potPlayer's perspective: - Poor customer service
- Inflexibility
- Laggy Servers
- Very limited amount of servers available
- Often has a non-functional client
- Terrible move-up rules that usually cause major sandbagging
- Expensive
Viewer's Perspective:- Massive delays for online games due to non-functional client, lack of DDOS protection (Every ESEA server we tried for Open finals got DDoS'd but the first private server we used never went down or lagged.)
- TF.TV twitch isn't allowed to cast LAN
- Apathy towards TF2 even during their LAN stream
I'm fairly certain ETF2L has always had more players than ESEA because all most comp TF2 players want is a cheap league to have fun in with their friends and try to win along the way.
Whoever sees ESEA with these perspectives is pretty ignorant.
I have never experienced poor customer service.
I have never played on a laggy server.
Client was fucked up for 1 teammate, 1 time last season.
Move-up rules don't cause sandbagging.
Esea-O costs about 50 more dollars for the entire team than Cevo(not including the free premium for this season)
Why would TF.TV be allowed to steal viewers and ad revenue from ESEA stream?
Priority to the game that actually makes ESEA money is completely understandable.