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Hope they hired Nightbox :)

EDIT: Part of the first mappool:
arena_badlands
arena_granary
arena_nucleus
and a bonus map to be introduced in a patch:
arena_foundry

1-Valve is one of the most successful game companies on the planet.
2-They created some of the finest competitive games online.
3-They completely transformed the video game industry and the E-sports in the Last 15 years.
4-They have invested millions in E-sports.
5- Dota and CS Matchmaking works fine.

and yet there is still room for pessimism?

Quoted from san alex

1-Valve is one of the most successful game companies on the planet.
2-They created some of the finest competitive games online.
3-They completely transformed the video game industry and the E-sports in the Last 15 years.
4-They have invested millions in E-sports.
5- Dota and CS Matchmaking works fine.

and yet there is still room for pessimism?

Well tf2 is not a new game, and it’s already strongly established as a casual fps to the public eye. Making any major changes to grow the competitive scene could easily backfire. This is a risk not needed when they can instead simply continue making cosmetics etc

And don’t act like Valve is perfect. They are still a company and they’ve fucked up too

Quoted from san alex

we can expect the same success for this new comp mode.

to believe this is just being naive, in my opinion. The reason csgo and dota are having such success in comp gaming, is because they were designed with this in mind. TF2 was not, and to think that after so many years of being regarded as a casual game it will suddenly blow up and become a respected and serious e-sport, seems like a bit of wishthinking to me. Still think this can help the comp scene grow and survive for longer, but not expecting anything like dota or csgo

Quoted from Scissors

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to believe this is just being naive, in my opinion. The reason csgo and dota are having such success in comp gaming, is because they were designed with this in mind. TF2 was not, and to think that after so many years of being regarded as a casual game it will suddenly blow up and become a respected and serious e-sport, seems like a bit of wishthinking to me. Still think this can help the comp scene grow and survive for longer, but not expecting anything like dota or csgo

What you said is true, I’m being optimistic.
I don’t know what to expect but I got some good indications that what’s to come is good, based on their history success.

But of course in a completely realistic vision, your comment is probably the closest to the future reality.

Quoted from Mundi

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csgo was really shit when it came out, it was only recently it got big

It exploded when Operation Bravo aka Skins came out iirc

Quoted from smziii

inb4 5v5 arena mod no classlimits you play 15 rounds each side (blu/red) first to 16 caps wins

If they add the classlimits then it might be even fun.