Esports is Not The Model; is The People | Grassroot  

That is correct, and I don't challenge anything from that statement except the last part. There are many great competitive games out there without competitive scenes. By the same token, there are scenes out there for games that are hardly seen as competitive, yet they developed into it, like geoguesser or Farming Simulator. It's easy to offload the responsibility of creating an esports ecosystem to some "other" group or person. After all, if the game is good, then surely someone will make tournaments, right? But as I state in the video, if the game is good, you, me, and others, should be conscious of the fact that we are contributing to these see and ask ourselves if we want to contribute more. Being a great game is 80% of the way to having an esports scene, but the game alone cannot carry that last 20% of the way.

However, devs fear that if they didn't design an RTS to be an Esport, it'll fail.

Totally fair, but i think in part the issue of making a game watchable can be fixed by the community. Either by way of creating tools themselves (see for example CaptureAge for Age of Empires 2, which began as a community project), or by adapting their presentation to be more enticing (Tetris and Excel for instance). Also, its worth noting that FG has yet (to my knowledge) drop money on esport. Not that they have not spend any on it, but from my understanding they are not trying to push esports via direct investment as say for instance Riot or Blizzard would.

@@SebastianAdico I won't disagree casters can make or break the entertainment value. But the game just isnt that exciting to watch. Even the SC2 broodlord infestors era, there's still plenty good interactions prior to the late game. Imo the main issue is they plan to have some kind of scene this year, when the game is still pretty undercooked. The creep mechanics don't feel impactful and almost like a tacked on mechanics etc. most likely it will ruin first impression and set back any type of major eSports scene potential until grassroots shoes there's a consistent high viewership.