I am tired of constant wars in our community (AoE2 vs AoE4). I think people instead of fighting each other should use their creativity to make something good.
I was reading Golden Leauge thread and started to wonder how to make AoE2 future brighter. @EliteGamingChannel said if we want to host a 100k (from microsoft money prizepool) tournament we need to have another 100k from other sponsors or from our funds.
Someone can believe their words, someone don't but it doesn't matter. I don't want post another "dividing community" thread. Instead I have a few thoughts we can talk about.
You may like it or not - aoe4 has something that aoe2 does not. Esport organization.
EGCTV has infrastructure, money and ability to invite well known casters to their own chanel during tournament they host. In big e-sport word casters are casters not Tournament Organizers. And not only in AoE4. Look at Starcraft 2 - their tournaments are organized by bigger orgaziations like ESL, Dreamhack etc. LoL, Dota? Same. Even biggest AoE2 tournament ever (RBW5) was hosted by big organization.
I think it is easier to get sponsors as an organization than as one person. In the future it's easier to talk with even bigger organizations (like ESL for example) if you are organization allready.
We have great personalities like @MembTV , @T90Official , Dave and many more. It would be great to see them cooperate for something bigger.
RBW5 was great success and it was amazing to see them cooperate, cast together in profesional tournament.
Of course there would be many problems like sharing money inside organization but come on, we wouldn't be first who did it. I think the legal part will be the hardest. I admit, I have no idea how to start such things. But maybe there are people in our community who knows or at least know where to ask.
We have amazing community, solid viewership (in comparision to other RTS games) and we deserve to grown up to real esport.
And if you don't belive in EGCTV words you can just check them by bringing 100k usd and see if Microsoft will give us another 100k. Is it possible to get so much money from outside the microsoft? I guess, I hope.
As organization it should be easier to get sponors. Besides, we can do a fundraiser. Crowfunding is really big thing.
I really hope there will be no hate speech in this thread. I wish you all a great day. Cheers.
I was reading Golden Leauge thread and started to wonder how to make AoE2 future brighter. @EliteGamingChannel said if we want to host a 100k (from microsoft money prizepool) tournament we need to have another 100k from other sponsors or from our funds.
Someone can believe their words, someone don't but it doesn't matter. I don't want post another "dividing community" thread. Instead I have a few thoughts we can talk about.
You may like it or not - aoe4 has something that aoe2 does not. Esport organization.
EGCTV has infrastructure, money and ability to invite well known casters to their own chanel during tournament they host. In big e-sport word casters are casters not Tournament Organizers. And not only in AoE4. Look at Starcraft 2 - their tournaments are organized by bigger orgaziations like ESL, Dreamhack etc. LoL, Dota? Same. Even biggest AoE2 tournament ever (RBW5) was hosted by big organization.
I think it is easier to get sponsors as an organization than as one person. In the future it's easier to talk with even bigger organizations (like ESL for example) if you are organization allready.
We have great personalities like @MembTV , @T90Official , Dave and many more. It would be great to see them cooperate for something bigger.
RBW5 was great success and it was amazing to see them cooperate, cast together in profesional tournament.
Of course there would be many problems like sharing money inside organization but come on, we wouldn't be first who did it. I think the legal part will be the hardest. I admit, I have no idea how to start such things. But maybe there are people in our community who knows or at least know where to ask.
We have amazing community, solid viewership (in comparision to other RTS games) and we deserve to grown up to real esport.
And if you don't belive in EGCTV words you can just check them by bringing 100k usd and see if Microsoft will give us another 100k. Is it possible to get so much money from outside the microsoft? I guess, I hope.
As organization it should be easier to get sponors. Besides, we can do a fundraiser. Crowfunding is really big thing.
I really hope there will be no hate speech in this thread. I wish you all a great day. Cheers.
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