People make a big deal about this, but it’s actually pretty simple — we’re one community. We’re not big enough to sustain two games. And on a professional level, it makes no sense to take time away from the game with thousands of dollars in sponsored prize pools to grind the older game and maybe make $150 if you win. So even when guys play the older title occasionally for fun, the level of play among active tournament players drops significantly and everybody knows it.
Because of this, the tournament community will switch when the new game comes out. But it’s actually not a ‘problem’ — it’s perfectly fine. And people will still hold some events online for the people that want to play the older game, like Destroyer did last year.
I don’t know why people always act like this is some huge issue that needs fixing. If we actually grow big enough to become two separate communities, with two mostly separate groups of tournament top players, then it’ll change. But until then we’re exactly where we should be and it’s fine.
