High impact heroes whose high impact comes with an incredibly low skill floors are not positive additions, especially in a game that markets itself as a competitive shooter. There’s nothing wrong with the idea of having to get good to have a high impact but Blizzard’s recent hero additions andrecent balance changes…

You’re missing why people dislike Brigitte...she’s an extremely low skill floor hero with an extremely high impact. The issue is not the meta being shaken up, it’s the way in which it’s happening.

The teams are doing tons and tons of work on that front! It’s definitely worth checking out the team Twitter/YouTube accounts, many of them are posting content based on the players and the content is generally very good and very interesting. The League could do more to promote that but at the same time, it’d be nice…

Only DK is truly gone forever imo. His contract has been terminated (xQc was phrased as a mutual release, iirc) and there has been some involvement from the police (I don’t know to what extent). There is no coming back from a pedophilia scandal while elements of xQc’s are at least a little bit more nuanced.

That’s because controversy = clickbait. No one writes articles about the people who keep their heads down and play the game.

Those big name players were picked up for their playing ability, and there’s a total of one player who is truly out of the league at this point.

Kotaku is effectively trying to create what Geguri is trying to avoid...she says in the quoted post that negative media coverage is the issue, and that’s exactly what is happening here. xepheR did nothing wrong, especially in light of why the original Dizziness scandal was scandalous (which is not mentioned in this…

Look, I’m sorry that you don’t have sufficient background knowledge to debate this, but if you’re not going to bring in any relevant new information, please move away from the baseless ad hominem and move on. Thanks!

The Korean OW community is insane. An apology is mandatory, guilty or not, for anything coming close to a scandal.

With the exception of Slasher, and to an extent Jacob Wolf, I’m not sure if there are any major eSports personalities covering OW that have any real understanding of the scene or the dynamics in and behind it. There are a significant number of fans who go the extra mile to stay as up to date as possible on everything…

So you’re saying that xepheR is “lucky” that Geguri let him off when he didn’t do anything wrong in the first place?

“No one likes me but it’s not my fault and there’s nothing I can do to change it” - every Sym main

If you’d back through and read again, you’d see that I do address the ‘why.’ Boosting is viewed extremely negatively in Korea because they’re a plague on the game there, boosters getting into OWL = circumventing domestic rules on the offense, and a large portion of fans (including some casters) hate them for ruining…

First, Blizzard has gone back and forth on the subject. Jeff is always quick to condone it but moments of lucidity from other employees have not followed that line.

Boosting can ruin games in multiple ways. First, you have players doing the boosting, so playing in a rank way below their level and stomping their way up. Some people also like to buy accounts that are very low rank so boosters can also throw games to derank. Additionally, when boosting, it’s not uncommon to have…

I mean, there’s a really obvious reason why. Boosting is viewed extremely negatively in the Korean Overwatch community because boosters and boosted accounts are a plague there that are roughly equivalent to the plague of Sym/Torb one-trick throwers that afflict NA (I’m pretty sure it was Fissure, one of the most…

I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss what he has to say because you haven’t experienced enough of him. It seems like you’re admitting to having extremely limited experience with him but still trying to dismiss him, and as someone who has been following competitive OWL forever, I’m saying that’s a mistake.

1) NA Contenders meant absolutely nothing and nV has been internationally irrelevant since the end of APEX S1

Fissure’s post following Rascal’s release and Slasher leaks.

What a ridiculous statement, that Rascal isn’t a team player. He was a part of one of the best rosters in Overwatch history with Kongdoo Panthera and had received zero flak pre-Dallas. Rascal wanted to win and tried to instill a team culture focused on winning and it was rejected by the team. Fissure tried instilling…