Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?
LambChop@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I’ve been in a few, but not the big cash prize tournaments they have now. I was in the TF2 studio rumble around `09ish against several game development studios. We made it through 3-4 rounds until we played against Valve, who of course wiped the floor with everyone. Later I joined a competitive team for a game called Guns of Icarus. It was fun at first and we did really well, but over time it became more and more stressful as we focused on winning over having fun. I finally gave it up because the competition eventually took all the fun out of the game.
Shayeta@feddit.org 11 hours ago
What do you mean exactly by “wiped the floor with us”? Even if they are the devs of the game they’re still devs, not pro players. How much better could they be?
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
But it was a tournament among gaming studios, with Valve being on home turf basically.
It’s like when you had the Blizzard dev smurf the SC2 ladders at a really high level, but the guy regularly lost to the actual Korean pros.
Dlayknee@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Sometimes devs are pretty good at their games. Other times, they bring QA who are typically really good at their games.