I am all against the pause rematch on stream. It ruins momentum, it ruins the catarthic feeling of the match ending, ruins the hype. It just feels dissatisfactory. A very irritating feeling.
In fact, the other FG tournaments strongly prohibit pause button unless super special circumstances.
Usually the pausing player is penalized by forfeiting a round. I hope this will be a thing with MK11 as well. You pause even if you already lost? You surrender next round.
I hope NRS include the "disable the pause after K.O" feature for tournament mode.
Right, and to me it seems like it’s a very easy to see issue. I don’t know how you can call it a made up fabricated issue when so many people, including viewers, commentators, etc, have complained about it. If it weren’t at all an issue, we wouldn’t be talking about it right now.
Now I’m not saying it’s gonna make or break the game, community, etc. It’s definitely not
that big of a deal, but no one said it was. But the denial is weird to me.
Also, to those who mentioned it, I never said people turn off the stream immediately if someone does the instant pause rematch. I said I believe it hurts viewership in the long run. With the amount of people I see complain about it who aren’t just random people, who aren’t just some stream monsters, who ARE actual known players or commentators, I don’t think it’s at ALL a reach to suggest that it MAY be a factor in declining viewership. Wanting hard evidence I can respect, that makes sense. It’s very tough to get that evidence, but I understand that line of reasoning. What I don’t understand is being unwilling to even entertain it. If you were to say “it’s possible, but without actual data and evidence, there’s not much to go on to support your claims”, or something to that effect, I could totally respect and understand that. Idk though, just seems very strange to be so hard pressed to claim it isn’t an issue when you ALSO don’t have evidence to support that claim.
