Can MCOC become an esport game?

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• Salve_maker05 Posts: 407 ★★★

  July 2021

  grfvb said:

  with new competitive modes coming out soon (ish).. do you reckon mcoc got potential to be competitive like dota or MK?

  I liked how they did the summoner showdown as a stand-alone event by themselves tbh

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• The_Sentry06 Posts: 7,781 ★★★★★

  July 2021 edited July 2021

  With current state of the game (gamebreaking bugs every update that affect combat mechanics, champions abilities being broken for months,etc), NO.
  
  Not saying mcoc can't be an esports game, it has potential and I'm not saying that other esports games don't bugs. Just that it wouldn't be much of a competition if your opponent wins because Nick's pre-fight didn't activate.

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• ItsDamien Posts: 5,626 ★★★★★

  July 2021

  Lmao. No.

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• Piviot Posts: 658 ★★★

  July 2021

  Haven’t they had tournaments before
  
  They’ve tried to make it an esport

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• ChiliDog Posts: 883 ★★★

  July 2021

  Good Esports requires everyone have access to the same things at all times for practice. Too much rng here....and bugs.

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• Mauled Posts: 3,957 Guardian

  July 2021

  With live accounts, no. With the same set up at the live events, perhaps but it’d require a lot of work to iron out bugs and what’s working as normal etc. As players can’t play each other it’d be vs AI so there’d need to be a lot of research into performance metrics to define winners in what would, I presume be fairly tight at the pinnacle.

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• Sky_kitty Posts: 245 ★

  July 2021

  Salve_maker05 said:

  grfvb said:

  with new competitive modes coming out soon (ish).. do you reckon mcoc got potential to be competitive like dota or MK?

  I liked how they did the summoner showdown as a stand-alone event by themselves tbh

  that was cool but it's a shame that not everybody could play just bc they were from one of the countries that couldn't participate. i would love to see the whole comunity playing showdown,not only some of them

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• IronGladiator22 Posts: 1,637 ★★★★

  July 2021

  As much as I love this game, no.
  Summoner showdowns are fun and would be better staying contained to the MCOC community.
  I personally just don’t believe this game could work very well for professional esports

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• zaspacer Posts: 115 ★

  July 2021 edited July 2021

  I think it could if they built a mode for it, and then tuned it to deliver for the target format they wanted.
  
  However, it might be very difficult to create such a mode in MCOC without messing up the existing game, community, and modes. Players are already stretched across content, and a new mode would be pulling players away from other modes/content, especially if players were motivated to train and stream the new mode. Also, MCOC's gated access to content/Champs/etc. would be a barrier for people to share or relate to high end players playing a game mode that isn't something they can do.
  
  Kabam would probably be better off making a new game for it. And not risk poaching its own players and ghost towning its own existing content. While also making an experience that could be shared across all players. And something they could get entirely new players for.

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• MrInsanity Posts: 1,539 ★★★★

  July 2021

  Sky_kitty said:

  Salve_maker05 said:

  grfvb said:

  with new competitive modes coming out soon (ish).. do you reckon mcoc got potential to be competitive like dota or MK?

  I liked how they did the summoner showdown as a stand-alone event by themselves tbh

  that was cool but it's a shame that not everybody could play just bc they were from one of the countries that couldn't participate. i would love to see the whole comunity playing showdown,not only some of them

  Take it up with the country then because Kabam couldn't control their laws

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