What's the obsession with the MLG?

Games Other Halo
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I’m not trolling, genuinely curious. No one uses the MLG for their big tournaments. So why is it so important that Halo 4 uses/follows the footsteps of the MLG?

Street Fighter 4’s biggest tournaments is every year at EVO, not the MLG tournaments.

Dota 2’s is the Dota 2 international and Dreamhack, not their MLG tournaments.

Staracraft 2 and World of Warcraft? Blizz con/Blizzard International and Dream hack.

Counter Strike? Quake con.

League of Legends? Riot World championships.

Why is it so important that Halo 4 work with the MLG? If anything Microsoft should be funding their own massive tournament like the rest of the professional gaming community.

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because MLG has been with halo since the beginning, plus the results are always top notch, its worth saying that AGL is known to have great tournaments as well, however it still doesn`t compare to MLG.

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Dota 2’s not on the circuit yet because the game is technically incomplete. It’s in a fully playable state, but not all heroes are out yet and Valve wants to do more, plus having more than 1 Dota-style game is inefficient, especially when LoL brings in more money/viewers.

MLG has multiple tournaments a year for LoL, lots of users watch and play. But there are no settings for Dota-style games to begin with.

Blizzcon is mostly a joke. It gets a lot of viewers, but Blizzard itself doesn’t care. Also, lol @ you for thinking Dreamhack is bigger than GSL finals. GSL is the most competitive SC2 League bud. Either that or Kespa leagues.

CS has never been picked up because MLG is primarily a console tournament holder (until it picked up League/SC2)

People care about MLG settings for Halo because they created order out of the chaos that there used to be. Lots of items in the Halo sandbox were detrimental to competition/skill and as a result, MLG removed them. MLG playlists are usually the most skill-oriented/have the best players(the professionals, Snip3down, OGRE 1 & 2, etc), and so the settings have become associated with the most skill-requiring gametype. Do some research bud.

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> because MLG has been with halo since the beginning, plus the results are always top notch, its worth saying that AGL is known to have great tournaments as well, however it still doesn`t compare to MLG.

But is that a reason to stick around? I feel like that’s Halo’s only competitive avenue while Starcraft has multiple different leagues and various tournaments constantly being held. You can’t turn your head without hearing or seeing another dota 2 tournament. The MLG only has a few major tournaments per yer, and the prize pools aren’t even that big compared to other games…

Does 343i/Microsoft even have an E-sports manager/team?

AGL seems like a fun time. Hopefully they’ll come to the Pacific North West for some tournaments, but they seem to have a very small prize pool…

> Dota 2’s not on the circuit yet because the game is technically incomplete. It’s in a fully playable state, but not all heroes are out yet and Valve wants to do more, plus having more than 1 Dota-style game is inefficient, especially when LoL brings in more money/viewers.

True LoL does bring more viewers/money, but many people believe that Dota 2 is more balanced game and more entertaining to watch, and simply something that a lot of leagues can’t and don’t ignore.

> Blizzcon is mostly a joke. It gets a lot of viewers, but Blizzard itself doesn’t care. Also, lol @ you for thinking Dreamhack is bigger than GSL finals. GSL is the most competitive SC2 League bud. Either that or Kespa leagues.

I thought Blizzcon was taken pretty seriously as well as this year’s big international tournament since there was no 2012 blizzcon.

> People care about MLG settings for Halo because they created order out of the chaos that there used to be. Lots of items in the Halo sandbox were detrimental to competition/skill and as a result, MLG removed them. MLG playlists are usually the most skill-oriented/have the best players(the professionals, Snip3down, OGRE 1 & 2, etc), and so the settings have become associated with the most skill-requiring gametype. Do some research bud.

I guess my question is why does the community need the MLG to do this? Couldn’t we create our own playlists that we believe are the most skill based/competitive? I fail to see how the MLG is the standard for competitive Halo. It seems like they took the mantle (See what I did there?) and have been running with it, but the MLG is losing popularity so wouldn’t it be wise to take business else where for the main source of competitive gaming?

Shouldn’t halo be just as big as CoD, SC2, LoL, Dota 2, and nameless other games? I just don’t see that happening with the community clutching on to the MLG as their sort of competitive saviors.

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Don’t take this the wrong way, but real Halo players know the difference. The ones that don’t care if there is MLG, or not, are the ones who usually haven’t played Halo 2, or 3. It’s a matter of skill. MLG made Halo the most competitive game. Majority of players want competitive.

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FPS, strategy, and sports games should be based on the neccesity of skill, and can therefore be played competatively.

Halo 2 and 3 were a couple of the games that put MLG on the map, so to speak. Yet Halo: Reach, and now probably Halo: 4, wasn’t carried in MLG tournaments cause it was a -Yoink- game that wasn’t competative and had an insignificant skill gap.

To some people, I think it’s basically a stamp saying that the game is competative, and by extension, that Halo games aren’t going to suck anymore.

Of course, most of the playership has already moved on so it’s probably too late.

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ive been playing competitive halo with mlg since mid halo 2 and always loved the competition. 4 players with rechargeable shields and long range rifles running and gunning fighting over spawns, powerful weapons, and call outs, team work, w/e else its such a crazy game. those 49/49 halo 3 games at level 50 playing against like flamesword and joe fries and the entire top 16 teams rosters lol <3

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> Don’t take this the wrong way, but real Halo players know the difference. The ones that don’t care if there is MLG, or not, are the ones who usually haven’t played Halo 2, or 3. It’s a matter of skill. MLG made Halo the most competitive game. Majority of players want competitive.

So you believe if a 3rd party or Microsoft were to start a $500,000 tournament the community would participate? Or if a league was started with a substantial prize, as long as the game modes and maps were balanced and competitive?

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As for MLG being here from the beginning, you might want to see this.
For the lulz.