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Thorin's Thoughts - Mods Are Esports' Past and Present (General)

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Then we go back to Quake again, the original Quake. Original Quake, a mod for that game was Team Fortress. Now again, Team Fortress had its own different spiritual successor in Team Fortress Classic which was made for Half Life, again itself a licensed engine of Quake. And Team Fortress was an underground game but it had its own popularity back in the days when I played Quake, it’s just that the entire scene, even people who played normal Quake was very very small. Obviously Team Fortress then under Valve with Team Fortress Classic becomes Team Fortress 2 later on, again a game that has a cult following but wasn’t really a big esport. Well what’s the reason why I’m bringing this up now, because that would seem like a bit of an abstract one right. Well because Team Fortress clearly leads into a game by Blizzard Software, Overwatch right? How can this not be called a spiritual successor for Team Fortress. It contains some of the same concepts. I don’t think its any coincidence that so many of the Overwatch pros came over from Team Fortress 2 and it wasn’t people from Quake or Counterstrike or other games typically who will come around, it was largely those people especially the western players. You look down teams like Houston Outlaws, Dallas Fuel, these are littered with players. I think Misfits maybe, oh well not Misfits. Florida Mayhem, these team are littered with players who are coming from the Team Fortress 2 scene because that’s the game they see kinda as the next chain in the evolution.
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI--6sHTUMA]Thorin's Thoughts - Mods Are Esports' Past and Present (General)[/url]

[spoiler]Then we go back to Quake again, the original Quake. Original Quake, a mod for that game was Team Fortress. Now again, Team Fortress had its own different spiritual successor in Team Fortress Classic which was made for Half Life, again itself a licensed engine of Quake. And Team Fortress was an underground game but it had its own popularity back in the days when I played Quake, it’s just that the entire scene, even people who played normal Quake was very very small. Obviously Team Fortress then under Valve with Team Fortress Classic becomes Team Fortress 2 later on, again a game that has a cult following but wasn’t really a big esport. Well what’s the reason why I’m bringing this up now, because that would seem like a bit of an abstract one right. Well because Team Fortress clearly leads into a game by Blizzard Software, Overwatch right? How can this not be called a spiritual successor for Team Fortress. It contains some of the same concepts. I don’t think its any coincidence that so many of the Overwatch pros came over from Team Fortress 2 and it wasn’t people from Quake or Counterstrike or other games typically who will come around, it was largely those people especially the western players. You look down teams like Houston Outlaws, Dallas Fuel, these are littered with players. I think Misfits maybe, oh well not Misfits. Florida Mayhem, these team are littered with players who are coming from the Team Fortress 2 scene because that’s the game they see kinda as the next chain in the evolution.[/spoiler]
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It's not that it's the successor, it's that they can play it professionally and actually make money. If tf2 was monetized to the level Overwatch is, then they'd 100% move back, since it's a much deeper game, and more rewarding to play. Lots of tf2 players moved over and succeeded because it's a game that takes a lot of the same skills, in terms of teamwork and pushes (and to some extent, DM).

Move experienced tf2 players to any remotely similar team-based FPS and they're going to be pretty dominant.

It's not that it's the successor, it's that they can play it professionally and actually make money. If tf2 was monetized to the level Overwatch is, then they'd 100% move back, since it's a much deeper game, and more rewarding to play. Lots of tf2 players moved over and succeeded because it's a game that takes a lot of the same skills, in terms of teamwork and pushes (and to some extent, DM).

Move experienced tf2 players to any remotely similar team-based FPS and they're going to be pretty dominant.
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talking tf2 players in OWL and not mentioning pine and the boys on nyxl

talking tf2 players in OWL and not mentioning pine and the boys on nyxl
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by spiritual successor do you mean newer game that is similar enough for the audience to migrate? because in that case fortnite is the spiritual successor to like every fps game since everyone moved to it.

by spiritual successor do you mean newer game that is similar enough for the audience to migrate? because in that case fortnite is the spiritual successor to like every fps game since everyone moved to it.
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