I mean does this look like the start to a productive discussion to you?

I love that all the replies to my comment only really support my point, though. Not one comment actually contains anything resembling structured arguments, just a whole lot of shit spewing.

And it makes little sense to "defend" Overwatch's esport scene on a post about the announcement of the name and logo of one of its franchises. It just so happens to be that literally every single piece of OW news here gets this response, no matter how far from on topic it may be.

If I was to make any positive arguments on OWL, however, I would say that Blizzard managed to get other companies to invest $240M in their game for the first iteration of their competitive circuit. That is as unprecedented as it is insane, it is success beyond the wildest imagination of anyone in esports just a few years ago, when buying the best LoL team for a million bucks was big news.

But that point has been made on here, and it has always been ignored over the comments that support the hivemind's opinion, so let's not act as if this community is somehow a proponent of "genuine" discussion. Genuine discussion requires a degree of rationality and respect for the opposing side that isn't present on r/esports, where anything that shits on OWL gets upvoted to the top and anything that doesn't is either ignored or downvoted to hell.

I'm not attempting to change that, because I quite obviously can't, but that doesn't mean I can't make a sarcastic comment or two about the state of Overwatch-related discussion on here. I just hope that if (and of course, this is a big if) the Overwatch League succeeds, this subreddit tones its hate for the whole thing down.