Originally Posted by
schippie
A MMO is not a good E-sports to watch honestly. An E-sports generally is something between 2 players in a 1v1 duel, though this can ofcourse like LoL be a lot more players, that still doesnt make it fun to watch general PVP.
There is if we are extremely honest not much individual skill involved and its far more focussed on team based stuff. And while this with normal sports is fun to watch there is simply to much going on in a giant PVP zone to make something like that work in a form that is enjoyable to watch.
If it was something between 10 or so players in a small arena it would maybe IF BALANCED (which not any MMO has ever been) be bareable to watch.
In the end GW2 is not ever going to become an E-Sports its something to dragged out.. and in all fairness boring to watch. Which is the problem with all MMO's fun to play.. incredibly boring to watch.
While we all dread the Arena PVP its honestly the only viable E-Sports MMO type of PVP match to watch. The rest .. is simply kinda boring and far to slow paced.
So if GW2 was balanced in a 1v1 level all classes against all classes. And there was an Arena type of mode in a smaller area then then the large PVP zones. And it had a way for a caster to view it all in birds eye view/tools to cast games about it properly. And maybe even have a system to record matches like SC2 and share them.. yes then it might have a chance to becoming an E-Sports. But for now while it has the most potential of any MMO on the E-Sports department.. it will not become anything big like SC2 and LoL HoN or Quake.