You are either referring to LoL or Starcraft. Both of those games have nothing to do with fighting games and are a moot point. Fighting games are never truly competitive online. You can have a great connection and think the game is running perfectly but trust me it is not.
I would explain but explaining isnt sufficient. You have to actually play competitive offline and then you will know the difference.
Also gamebattles is stupid
I've played offline and online and know the difference even if im not a FGC vet. I'm not denying that - but people a) not good enough / wealthy enough to travel to tournaments and b) not living in an area with an offline scene, our competitive has to be online. Its not the best but its as good as it gets for us. Its still competitive, its still fun. Its the only option for us. Laughing at it and calling "competitive + online" a moot concept entirely is kinda stupid and honestly pretty rude to the players
trying to enjoy Injustice competitively to the fullest extent that they possibly can.
Would you rather people who have no choice but to play competitive online play their competitive online on gamebattles and via community-organize tourneys, buy the game, support the community, buy fightsticks (supports sponsors which support players and tourneys), and watch streams... Or would you rather anyone that didn't live in a urban area with an FGC community just didnt play or follow Injustice at all?
Starcraft and LoL are not irrelevant, even if they are very different. I have no idea how many people competitively play LoL ranked per day, but LOTS do. How many of those do you think actually show up at large tournaments and LANs, and have the opportunity to compete in those? An EXTREMELY small percentage. But the reason the game is such a huge esport is because 99% of the competitive players play online exclusively, but they support the game and its esport scene. Those huge first prizes wouldn't be there if there wasn't an online competitive scene.
Even if Injustice's online competitive would/will kinda suck because of delays, its still necessary if you want the scene to grow.
TL;DR: We put up with shit delay, bad connections and frequent disconnects and still try to play competitively. In the history of eSports such as SC2 and LoL, the ones who played online are the ones that made those games grow to what they are today... even though almost all of them never attended a single IPL or MLG event. You should be thanking people trying to play this game competitively online, not laughing at them.
