[Feedback]: Blizzard E-Sports

E-Sports for the sake of comparison are like watching Survivor versus Shark Tank, or that somebody watches someone else win a million bucks versus “winning” the product, by being able to buy the product online because it’s witty, attractive, and catches your eye

Like Logan Paul losing $3.5 million on fake pokemon cards, it’s funny to the kids, but odds are, that he’s wealthy and makes a killing on social media

Likewise with the included WoW Arena photograph, what’s $5,000 for a first place prize when compared to? Twitch streamers will toss that amount around like it’s pennies

What WoW has that Twitch / Youtube don’t, are a spot on solid WoW art team and could follow Amazon with Blizzard releasing loot drops akin to New World, where, for the first time ever, can compete for special artwork and gear designed by the WoW development team

And the first “unique” thing that comes to mind is Gladiator because of Arenas:

And to include the E-Sports audience, social media drops could include anything from special and unique Hunter Pets, Warlock Demons, Mounts, Toys, Pokemon Petz, and unique armor and weapons specific to them

Transmog WoW zones by decorating them in graffiti; Ven’thyr stone gargoyle drop unlocked, I feel like personally placing it on the Westfall poison rogue tower; maybe it’s eyes zap another player, mouth randomly RNG purple loot box, or just generally causes another player to say: “hey that’s cool, that wasn’t there before”

A drop that provides an empty treasure box where a player can place gold and items in it and then drop it somewhere in game where they get a popup notification on screen that says: “Congrats, your loot box has been found”; player checks the spot to verify this, and RNG see a mob or critter raccoon rummaging through it because nobody found it after a month

Advertisements of up to 30 seconds can include The Horde use 2022 branded laptops powered by Intel, whereas The Alliance use Ryzen, but the top Gladiators use Alienware and Digital Storm, and they fuel up by WoW branded Monster Energy and Mountain Dew Game Fuel

The proof in the supported data is Jeffrey Kaplan hyping up a new Overwatch hero, earning himelf 100k viewers on average, and just sitting in front of a burning Yule log fireplace, so cozy and warm like Blizzard Entertainment could be

Rather than updated bullet points from MMO Champion from the WoW team or a live video feed from Blizzcon that we gets once per year - that could even be cancelled - a few words from the CEO - the audience could get an unscripted reality TV series on Twitch about the daily events from within the Blizzcon offices; e.g. how Mike Yabarra spends his day running the company, to internal LAN Wi-Fi gaming sessions between employees

The biggest “problem” with Blizzard E-Sports IMHO, is that your to focused on sponsoring major events on the official Youtube channel which might get a new video once every few MONTHS inevitably causing people to lose interest which pertains to the initial paragraph of keeping your audience entertained and not catching some ZZZZzzzz

I personally don’t check Twitter or Facebook to stay up to date on anything, as I’m personally more of an IGN and Games Radar type of avid reader when it comes to gaming related news, and will watch a fair amount of Youtube and Twitch, where if something isn’t marketed there, odds are, I’m not going to know about it

MMO Champion and WoW Head exist, but they didn’t create World of Warcraft, Blizzard did, and checking for video arena feeds from third party sources might not be a step in the right direction continued

The data equally collectively shows that website traffic prior to the advent of social media peaked when unveiling a new game like Diablo 3 and using a splash banner

However, when new games are released like Starcraft 1 remastered, it’s still got the 40+ second “your lagging” popup window

Or even Warcraft 3: “REMASTERED” - clans, ladders, chat rooms, person to person chat, constant disconnects (which all were present / never happened with the original Warcraft 3); maybe a little side bonus campaign, here’s why it’s been rereleased, but even the U.I. of campaign selection window is a bit of an eye sore

Once combined with either social media or splash banners, would - and did - make alot of fan players irrate

There’s always room for improvement; Warcraft 4 has this epic Orc campaign, where between missions your in this Terran-Hyperion Orcish Stronghold, but alas one can still do even more

Official Blizzard Entertainment accounts for 4chan and Reddit to appeal to those communities, where Mike Yabbara is checking Live Stream Fails on the daily, and some popular Twitch streamer lost his level 59 hardcore character in WoW upon death and he’s just this bald headed human with a roll of toilet paper meme

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I think where you’re missing the mark is that E-sports with Blizzard are very underwhelming and under perform.

If you go to their youtube channel. We can see how most of the playerbase doesn’t care about E-sports. Beyond that most of their own subscribers don’t care. Their channel has 1.58 million subs. We’re going to hope that we have more players than that still around.

Then you look at their view counts. They’re really low for a channel with above a million subs. Looking at the great push streams they did. They’re struggling to even get near 150k views. For a channel with 1.58 million subs. Thats a dead channel.

Its why pumping money in Esports is a massive scam to con investors out of money. Blizzard gets the money from people who invest, and sponsors. Sponsors hope you buy their stuff to make their money back. Investors are just left out to dry really for not looking into it enough.

Moral of the story. Nobody cares about E-sports with WoW.

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WoW esports haven’t really been a thing since Wrath/Cata. It was 100% dead in WoD but fans brought it back(damn them!). While mythic+ was pretty big in Legion it died quickly in BFA when every comps was exactly the same it became boring to watch since your class wasn’t being used. Its too bad it didn’t stay dead perhaps we could get better content that wasn’t tailored to the gogogo mentality.

I like your idea of drops but this is Blizzard we are talking about they dont give anything away for free. You are right about engagement though they dont bother and esports suffer.

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Esports are boring. Then again sports are boring. I dont believe either shouldnt exist but secretly wish we didnt pump money into either.

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