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Posted - 2016.07.27 09:00:06 -
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Sentient Blade wrote:Other than naturally occurring events like the battle of B-R5RB the Alliance Tournament is probably the single biggest external promotion that EVE gets and usually stays plastered the the front of twitch for its duration.
Even as pure marketing concern, why would CCP do anything but invest heavily into it and others?
Even on finals weekend it barely gets 3000-4000 viewers on a good day, so compared to other games (where a popular streamer can get that on a regular show) it's not a good IRL ISK investment from a marketing point of view. Even with a good chunk of the work being done voluntarily by CCP staff (yes, they probably put as much of their own time into these as players do), it still costs tens of thousands of dollars to run AT.
As Teddy says above without tools in the hands of players to make a match fair and relatively stress-free to run, the tournament community relies on CCP staff good will to keep running. You wouldn't believe the amount of behind the scenes effort to run one episode of EVE_NT collides smoothly, we are talking a team of 15-20 people each episode, not to mention the dozens of hours spent preparing each episode which is a lot of people hours that players are selflessly investing for the good of the community. Personally in the last year i have put hundreds of hours into running and producing tournaments, its a very time consuming process.
Hopefully that is changing soon, CCP Logibro, backed up by other members of the dev and community team see the important value of the tournament community as something that keeps bitter-vets interested in eve year to year and gives keen young PVP players an end game goal to work towards. Keep lobbying your CSM representatives to push CCP management for more support for these projects if you want to see more of them, and tune in to any and every broadcast of any tournament to demonstrate your interest, even if the production/content is amateurish - we all start somewhere!
Fingers crossed Thunderdome is as awesome as promised which enables players to run tournaments a lot more easily and fairly without having to rely on CCP, my hope is this will really enable the tournament community to take off and who knows, maybe next year they will be able to reserve some AT places for teams that have risen through the ranks of some more junior tournaments (my dream!).
Also Teddy that really sucks, as a team that emptied all our wallets last year to get I can relate to the stress as of only having one shot a year to try and get in, best of luck with the auction - having run into your megathrons on TQ, i think you guys would mae a great AT team. |