Wow E-sports comes across to me as a bunch of arrogant people who think they’re above everyone and Blizzard pretending that type of player is who speaks for the playerbase. Building the game around 50 players or something makes no sense.
It also reminds me of a conversation I had with the leader of Limit. He was saying “We got told when a raid is coming out a couple of weeks in advance” I asked him why they deserve to know better than the rest of the playerbase and also how that’s fair if a newer guild want to compete with him? That’s a disadvantage. I got the reply of “well we need to book events and stuff” I said “so why not tell us at the same time then? and you would still have time to do that?” he couldn’t answer me.
Blizzard like to mess you around with release dates they can tell their special buddies but they can’t tell you to make plans in your busy life or even if you want to take your holidays from work. You aren’t as important as their little important VIPs"
The real answer is they wanted them to feel like snowflakes. While people who pay the same money get zero communication and treated like dirt.
The irony is that some of those other people are idiots who help bankroll the Twitch/gaming careers of people like that. Ironically they’re the same kind of people who would accept a content creator doing all sorts of shady stuff but would have their standards raised extremely high for a minimum wage service worker who’s desperately struggling to get by.