Wednesday, April 30, 2014

MLG Has Announced Their Second International Expansion!





MLG Makes move to china


Early on April 24th, 2014, MLG announced they are going to be building the first ever MLG Arena in China. The project is a joint operation between MLG, Lai Fung Holdings Limited and eSun Holdings Limited which are both Chinese gaming companies. Lai Fung are looking to place this arena as the beautiful centerpiece to their Renminbi $18 Billion "Creative Culture City". This city is located on the island Hengqin which is off the coast of Macau. This city is designed to be a dynamic economic zone and a huge tourist complement to Macau with a wide view of a leisure and recreational activities. With MLG staging the arena, they are building a V-Zone in the arena. The V-Zone showcases any new gaming releases developers want to show, restaurants with gaming themes, and retail shops. 

MLG, Lai Fung and eSun are collaborating with many gaming companies from around the world to put together the V-Zone and establish regular gaming competitions that will be aired just like in all the other countries. The plan is to have the arena opened up by the year 2017. With an emphasis on "ongoing competition". MLG plans on streaming every event of the best players in the world that takes place there because of the increased growth in eSports.  

This isn't it of MLG expanding to the world. This is yet the second announcement of 2014, with the first being MLG Brazil. This is because MLG is trying to provide competitive gaming platforms for underserved communities around the world. This is great because all the other countries that compete in competitive gaming won't eventually have to travel out of their countries and continents just so they can practice for the worlds majored events. They will be able to just play within their communities and even host their own major events. 




















MLG & ESPN Come Together To Bring Call of Duty To The XGames



     Just when everyone thought the world of eSports was going to finally start slowing down on its growth, MLG throws another big news update into the mix. They have announced that MLG has collaborated with ESPN to bring competitive Call of Duty to the X Games! It is an eight team invitational tournament that will be broadcast on MLG.tv but highlights will show on other networks. Occurring on June 6th-8th at Circuit of Americas in Austin, Texas.

These networks include:
- ESPN
- ABC
- MLG.tv
- X Games digital and social platforms

With MLG coming together with the renown leader of sports entertainment. It will show the world how serious eSports are. The Pro Gamers for the first time ever will be getting rewarded medals for playing. Gold medals just like athletes. Continuously pushing eSports into the mainstream with a constantly growing, rapid pace.

The eight teams that will be invited to X Games are the top three finishers at Call of Duty Championships which includes CompLexity Live, EnVyUs, and OpTic Gaming. 5 other teams will be decided based on their pro point standings in North America only by May 13th. The 5 teams that are looking to participate in the tournament have to have their rosters submitted by May 9th with their four players.





X Games Bracket Play


The eight teams that are invited to the X Games will be split up into two different groups. Both playing on the Xbox One Version of Call of Duty Ghosts. They will play in a double elimination bracket where every team plays each other at least once. The top two teams of each group will advance into the next day of bracket play. The bracket of the second day will be a single elimination bracket. Where MLG will hold two semi-finals matches. One being for the bronze medal and the other for the gold medal.








Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Team EnVyUs: The Roster Nobody Wanted Part 5




COD CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET PLAY Part 2


Moving into Round 5 of the Lower Bracket, still having an upward battle. EnVy looked for revenge against Strictly Business who earlier won the series 3-1. Needing to show up more than they did earlier, nV was hungry for a win. Pulling out an amazing run with the series being brought to 3 maps to none by nV. With a highlighted 6-0 victory on Warhawk S&D. Winning the series against their US brethren. 
Squaring up against their brother squad OpTic Gaming in the US Lower Bracket Finals. Everyone knew this would be a match up of a life time. Losing the first map against OpTic, EnVy responded by winning map two evening up the series with a 6-3 win in S&D. Showing that their S&D game is too strong to handle. After playing a gruesome map three with OpTic, they won it 6-5 in the last seconds of Blitz. Going to map four closing the series out on Sovereign Domination with a 157-125 win. 
With the uphill battle almost complete, they had to go up against the reigning world champions of CompLexity. Coming up short by getting a 3-0 sweep by coL. Their rise though, shouldn't be put behind as another loss. They faced limitless adversity not only over the CoD Champs weekend, but the months leading up to this event. 

With Rambo, Merk, Studyy, and Nameless all facing many roster changes like many other players. Having finally found a team where they feel at home with. Bonding with one another, making a friendship between each individual that some might say is the strongest in Call of Duty. 
This is the bottom line to playing with a team in anything you do. It's not about giving up as a player but it's about finding other players who you work well with and can create a bond with. Make chemistry and make sure that all four of you have one common goal. 
The team came together, practiced immensely with short time period. Mixing the veterans the young talent together really brought out a strong team that deserved the $200,000 richer they became as a team. Proving all doubters wrong, placing 2nd out of all of the best teams in the world at the Call of Duty Championship for all of their own fans and supporters. 

Team EnVyUs: The Roster Nobody Wanted Part 4



COD CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET PLAY

With the squad taking second place in their pool play, it seeded them in bracket play against the US Finals Champions Strictly Business. After losing the first map like their other match ups, EnVy evened up the series with an impressive 6-3 win in S&D on Warhawk. sB responding back by winning the next two maps dropped EnVy out of the Winners Bracket and the first team to go into the Lower Bracket. Putting them on death row needing only one loss to go home and not have a shot at the prize money at stake. Giving them an uphill battle in order for them to finish in the money for a Top-6 placing. 
Matching up against Team Kaliber in their first Lower Bracket match, many fans were biting their nails on who was going to go home. Once again nV dropped their first. Making the crowd wonder if it would be another performance against them like sB did. However, EnVy took the next two maps to bring the series to a 2-1 lead. Later being tied up by Team Kaliber to bring the series to a game 5 Search and Destroy. The map was played on Octane, with Rambo and Studyy showing no signs of slowing down. Bringing their team to a 6-1 round victory on Octane, they defeated their US counterparts 3-2 in map count to move on to the next round. 
Epsilon, being the team that knocked OpTic Gaming into the Lower Bracket also made the EnVy fans nervous. Putting EnVy's heels on the edge by going up in the series 2-0. EnVy being on the brink of elimination, they showed the world what kind of team they were. Winning the third map Blitz and barely winning the fourth map domination (152-146). EnVy brought the series to another 2-2 stalemate against a European powerhouse. Nameless being a questionable player for Team EnVyUs, made a spectacular performance on Freight S&D with 16 kills and 6 deaths. Moving EnVy on once again with a 6-5 win going into Lower Bracket Round 3. 
After putting their backs against the wall with their last two match ups. They went on a tear in their next three. Playing against VexX Revenge, they only needed three maps to sweep VexX 3-0. Then bringing them to face the Australian powerhouse T1Dotters, using only three maps once again to quickly disperse the Aussie team. 

Team EnVyUs: The Roster Nobody Wanted Part 3





ONLINE QUALIFIER



With no time to spare the squad how to get used to each other in no time because the Online Qualifier was growing closer. With the same squad that played at the Winter Invitational, it helped nV acclimate to each other more easy. They were more ready for the Online Qualifier than their fans had thought. In 5 matchups EnVy only drop 2 maps as they easily qualified for the US Regional Championship.


US CHAMPIONSHIP



With the team of Rambo, Merk, Nameless, and Studyy going to their first LAN together they aimed to put on a show for the fans watching the US Championship. In order to move on to the CoD World Championship where they would compete against 31 other teams they only needed to win 2 matches before they lose 2. They first went up against Team Xfinity and won with a 3-0 map count. Setting up their match against their brother team, OpTic Gaming.
Playing against OpTic Gaming in their second series, EnVy fell behind early after losing the first Domination map. However, they responded swiftly and took the next three maps they played winning the series 3-1 and qualifying themselves for the World Championship.
Going onto their third match, EnVy lost against Strictly Business and FaZe securing themselves a spot in Group E of the World Championship.


COD CHAMPIONSHIP GROUP PLAY



Group E at the Championship consisted of EnVy, Immunity (AUS), TEC (UK), and Klarity (UAE).
After EnVy stumbled into their match against Immunity. They swept the first match of Domination taking a lead in the series 1-0. Responding in the next match Immunity took the Sovereign Search and Destroy, allowing Immunity to tie the series 1-1. nV taking the series lead again by winning the Blitz map 22-16. But Immunity with their backs against the wall responded fantastically against nV in winning the next two matches on Sovereign Domination and winning the final map Warhawk S&D to take the series with a 3-2 victory.
EnVy once again putting on a show when they went against the second team in their pool play group, TEC. Going down 0-1 right away after the first match, they won Freight S&D and Freight Blitz to take a 2-1 advantage and showing their strength as a team. However, TEC tied up the series and made sure that nV once again went to game 5 on Sovereign S&D. EnVy taking game 5 with a 6-4 win, also took the series 3-2.
EnVy needing one more win to move out of their group play or one loss to go home and not be able to compete in CoD Champs anymore working thirsty for their third match against Klarity. Having a much easier time, nV had a extremely quick 3-0 sweep over Klarity and advanced to the Bracket Play on Sunday. But, with a Round Robin play that occurred when EnVy, Immunity and TEC had a 3 way tie with their records as 2-1. The tie-breaker was a sudden death S&D map played between the three teams. After TEC lost to the Australian team of Immunity, EnVy also needed to beat TEC to move on. In a close match, EnVy came out on top 6-5 and move into bracket play securing their spot for sure on sunday. Playing for the 8-16 seeds.

Team EnVyUs: The Roster Nobody Wanted Part 2


THE ROSTER NOBODY WANTED

RAMBO

After disappointing the Team EnVyUs fans a couple of times towards the end of the Black Ops 2 season and beginning of the Ghosts season. Rambo became the coach with the pickup of pro player Scumpii. With a lucky break though, Rambo was able to refill his spot on the nV lineup. He had the map knowledge and game expertise he has always provided to lead Team EnVy into preparing to qualify for the US Championship. 

MERK

As a long time member and captain of OpTic Gaming, Merk was dropped from the team after they placed top-3 three times in Black Ops 2. After the many reasons for him being dropped from his former teammates and him himself, he handled the transition well and moved into a cozy spot with Team EnVyUs.  

STUDYY

Studyy teaming with Curse New York for UMG Philly found himself apart of the roster carousel after the 14th place finishing at Philly. When Curse Las Vegas needed another player like many teams, Studyy joined Curse LV joining in with his future teammate Nameless. But, once Parasite became a free agent after being released from OpTic Gaming, Studyy realized what would happen and left Curse LV to rejoin with his former team JusTus. His stay was short lived though as he once again was on the free agent list when he decided to leave JusTus again. When the EnVy squad needed a fill in for the Winter Invitational he jumped right in to help out. Shortly after that he recieved and invite to join the team and become a pro player for Team EnVyUs.

NAMELESS

After serving for the Black Ops 2 season with UNiTE Gaming, Nameless joined in with Parasite on Curse Las Vegas to start out his Call of Duty Ghosts season. With the Curse LV roster eventually becoming Parasite, Nameless, Killa, and MiRx. After taking 3rd place at UMG Philly, they also couldn't avoid the roster changes that many teams had to undergo. Parasite had left for OpTic and regretted that decision and returned back to Curse LV bringing Ricky with him from OpTic. This left Curse LV with 5 players when they only needed 4 and a player needed to be dropped. That player was Nameless who eventually got picked up by FaZe. But, once again Nameless got dropped when Proofy left EnVy and had joined FaZe. Finally, Nameless found his home with the Boys in Blue and became the team's long needed fourth member. 

Team EnVyUs: The Roster Nobody Wanted Part 1


Over time teams change no matter what you are talking about. High school sports getting upcoming freshman as the seniors graduate. Or a professional baseball pitcher is released from the Red Sox because he wasn't able to play to their expectations. The same thing happens in the eSport world of Call of Duty. Players are released, players are picked up and players retire. It's all the same, but it involves a video game.

Only 5 teams can say that they made it to the Grand Finals of a worldwide $1 Million tournament. With it being one of their greatest accomplishments of all time, only 1 team has appeared their twice. With the turbulent road to Call of Duty Champs, it made nV's 2nd place finishing even better. 

UMG PHILADELPHIA

With the addition of pro player Goonjar, nV had high hopes going into UMG Philadelphia. But, being sent into a rocketing tail spin they took a 9th-12th place finishing. 

ROSTER CHANGES

A couple days after UMG Philly had taken place. Pro Player Seth "Scumpii" Abner had left OpTic Gaming to join Team EnVyus, forcing pro player Rambo to become the new coach for nV. With the team of Scumpii, Proofy, Goonjar, and Merk, it only lasted a few weeks before Scump realized that he had made a mistake in leaving OpTic. Thus returning to OpTic Gaming. 
The day after Scumpii announced his release, nV player Proofy decided to test the waters and become a free agent. Making nV short 2 players. To fill in spots EnVy then refilled Scumpii's position with the return of Rambo and picked up Studyy off of the Curse New York lineup. Making the team Merk, Rambo, Studyy and Goonjar. However, a couple days later once again, Goonjar then decided that he was going to re-join Team Kaliber leaving the 4th spot on Team EnVy empty. Not wasting anytime, they quickly jumper to picking up Nameless who was a free agent with only 9 days to practice before the Online Qualifier for CoD Champs. Leaving EnVy's squad to consist of Rambo, Merk, Nameless, and Studyy.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Sponsoring Your Team







What is a sponsorship?

A sponsorship is when you sign with a particular company and get benefits from displaying their items in some way. For example, say you own a ScufGaming controller and you also live stream yourself playing Call of Duty everyday and get 100's of viewers a night. On your stream you also talk about how great your Scuf is and you tell people to buy the product. Now when you sign the agreement to advertise their product they will give you a discount code that people can use to get a little off on their product. At the end of lets say a month they tally up how much money they received from people using your code and in return pay you a portion of what you are owned. This is because 1. you advertise their product, letting it get known to the people out there. 2. In doing so, many people are buying their new product and publicity is growing for them. 3. You get some free product from them or even money buy just telling people about the product.

What this does is helps companies grow. It helps companies advertise their products to the communities they think will help them grow because they have people in those communities that already have fans for just being themselves. Advertisement through sponsorship is seen all over the world, including in sports, video games, popular activities, etc. They all have the same reasoning though, because people like what they watch with that particular event and will believe what people tell them about a product that helps them.

For instance, look at Nike and athleticism. They pay athletes to do a commercial for them so people think, "Wow this amazing player uses this product. So I have to use this product to get better!" Then the product is sold a higher rates than it has ever been and a revenue is made for the company. It is the same exact case for professional gamers.

How do you get these sponsorships?

Well the short and simple way to say it, is you have to be good at gaming or popular in the gaming world or both. The in depth story to it though starts with particular gamers as an example. Look at OpTic Nadeshot (a.k.a Matt Haag). He gets a steady live stream every night of anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000, sometimes more of viewers every day that he goes live. Companies like Scuf Gaming, Astro Gaming, BenQ will see this and think that by sponsoring him they will get their product out there like I have mentioned before. Because of the amount of viewers he gains every day it helps that company grow. So he has those people he can advertise the product to. He also is a veteran Call of Duty player and has been a professional gamer for 6 years now. So not only does he advertise their product through his casual gaming on his livestream, he also goes to competitions with their products and wins with them. Proving that the product he is using is worth it. Making the companies look reliable and sales soar even more.

To gain these sponsorships you have to make a name for yourself and prove to them that you won’t be a waste of their time. Constantly stream online on twitch.tv. People will notice you and you will grow because word in the competitive world does spread quickly. Also get a team together and compete. Grow as a team and get better as a team with strategies and compete. All that can happen is that you will get better. If you show up to major events and beat professional teams and get recognized, companies are going to look to sponsor you and you will become “famous” in the eSport realm.  


Pool Play For CoD Champs


Groups for pool play for the Call of Duty Championship were announced


Group A:

Strictly Business (US) 

Sublime (EU)

Vitality Returns (EU) 

Team RiZe (South America)



Group B:

CompLexity Gaming (US)

Allstars (EU)

VexX.Revenge (CAN)

Team Orbit.UK (EU)


Group C:

Team Kaliber (US)

Lightning Pandas (EU)

WiLD Gaming (CAN)

Reign Mix (EU)



Group D:

FaZe (US)

SK Gaming (EU)

Trident T1 Dotters (AUS/NZ)

Aztek Gaming (MEX)


Group E:

Team EnVyUs (US)

TEC.Intensity (EU)

Immunity (AUS/NZ)

Klarity (United Arab Emirates)


Group F:

Rise Nation (US)

Vitality Rises (EU)

Wizards.EU (EU)

Brazil 5 Stars (BR)


Group G:

OpTic Gaming (US)

Epsilon eSports (EU)

NSP (SK)

SSOF Gaming (BR)


Group H:

Xfinity (US)

TCM Gaming (EU)

Killerfish (EU)

Echelon (SING)


These are all the teams that are in the Call of Duty Championship. 32 teams that were all grouped into 7 different pool play sections. Of these 32 teams there are 19 different countries participating. Including, Brazil, United States, Canada, Singapore, United Arab Emirates, Countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South America, and South Korea. Of these teams many of them have appeared in a Call of Duty Championship before, others, are new on the block and “fresh meat” for the veteran champions that will be attending. Its amazing to see a phenomenal amount of talent come from all over the world for one video game. The growth of Call of Duty is just like Star Craft 2, Dota and other games. But, it is indeed getting to grow to the same level of popularity of those games and may take the lead!

How To Get Started With Competitive Call of Duty

Competitive gaming is very accessible when it comes to the realm of competitive sports. This is because of availability such as Xbox Live or PSN. You can break into being a professional gamer a lot easier than you can a professional baseball player, or football player, or soccer player. All much harder than trying to become a professional gamer. In order to get better at playing you have to play against people who are better or just as good as you are. Around the clock on MLG's site majorleaguegaming.gamebattles.com you can play these players anytime you want on any competitive game you want from your own home. But in order to compete and practice with these pro gamers, you I assume, have your favorite game and console. So say you play Call of Duty Ghosts on the Xbox One and are in your opinion very good at it. Then stick with that game and console and continue to practice on it. Now you have to learn the rules. On MLG, they made their own custom rule sets to reward players on their true skill when competing. Just like how basketball isn't just throwing a ball in a hoop, you have to know the rules in order to be able to play. With practice comes your ability and effectiveness when playing the game. When playing Call of Duty, you can't just be proficient at it, but you have to be proficient at the way it is played within the competitive ranks.

Practice
With your practice you have to play against excellent competition. Xbox Live is an essential tool for this because you will need the service in order to hone your gaming skills and find competition. Each time you play online against your foes, look at it as every time it being a tryout. Every time you play and impress them, they will turn into your allies and friend requests will start flying your way.

Starting out is the hardest part and online is how you begin it. On MLG go to the MLG Customs Forums and there will be thousands of other gamers who want to begin their road to fame, and maybe do it with you. Take the initiative and send our friend requests.

Forming a Team and Training
Once you know how to play online, you have to find a team. Within this team you need very good chemistry and coordination to be able to advance among the ranks. Whether you are alone or have a partially formed team, you can go on MLG's Online Tournament Recruitment Forum. Make a post and meet up with other players looking for a complete roster. Keep practicing with a bunch of different people and finally form your team that you feel has the best chemistry and coordination. Once you form your team go on the Practices and Scrimmages forums to have friendly matches against other teams that are looking to get better. With this practice, sharpen the skills of your team close to perfection. Then you will be able to compete against the best players the world has to offer with Online Tournaments on MLG's site. In order to be the best, you have to beat the best and to beat the best you have to play in these tournaments against people who are looking to win those prizes.

Pro Circuit
The Pro Circuit is where you compete against the people who are better than those online. You have to tune your skills and pickup strategies that can counter any strategy the other team has. In order to do this, and learn you can watch the top pros perform in action. Go on the Video On Demand archives and watch the videos of all the pros in there. Your skills can only be cemented when you go to a Pro Circuit Live Event on LAN. These events are hosted all over the United States throughout the year. At these events is where you will learn the areas you need to get better at and improve on. Keep practicing online and go to these events and eventually when the skill is fine tuned, you will reach the top prizes and fame just like the top pros.

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Championship Regional US Qualifiers March 8th - 9th 2014


What an eventful weekend at Full Sail University for Call of Duty fans and players. Once again Full Sail has pulled together another amazing event with Major League Gaming and Activision to create an event that displays to all its fans of who will make it to Call of Duty Championships again this year. With 16 teams making it to the qualifiers, only 8 of them were going to make it to the Championships hosted in Los Angeles California. The way the event worked was if you won 2 match ups before you lost 2 match ups you made it. But if you lost 2 series match ups before you won 2, you were out and had no chance to make it to the Champs. This was causing a lot of pressure for all the pros who made it to the event last year because what kind of pro are you if you can't make it to the world championships again? 

With first round match ups underway there weren't many upsets except for a few. Strictly Business (sB) beat FaZe competitive in a best of 5 with 3 straight map wins to knock them in to the losers bracket. It wasn't expected for sB to beat FaZe so easily. The biggest upset in the first round matches was Curse LV losing to a team that has shown up to their first tournament. LV lost to Rise Nation in the first round with a map count of 3-2 going down to a nail biter in the final map. The common teams moved out of first round with ease though, with OpTic Gaming, Team Kaliber, Vexx, Justus, Complexity and EnVy winning all of their first rounds with little to no competition. 

Second round matches were where many things happened that no one expected. Rise Nation moved on to round 3 with a a 3 -1 win over former 3rd place winners Justus knocking them into the losers bracket. Another upset was on the reigning world champions compLexity when they got a complete 3 - 0 sweep made on them by sB that no one saw coming. It was a phenomenal win for sB but championship teams have been knocked into the losers bracket before and made their way out. So everyone still had hopes for complexity to make it to the world championships. EnVy, the boys in blue made a miraculous appearance against OpTic Gaming, beating them 3-1 knocking them, also into the losers bracket. And with Team Kaliber beating Vexx 3-0 moving onto round 3 too. With EnVy, Rise Nation, Team Kaliber, and Strictly Business already all qualified for CoD Champs, the tension in the complex went to who was going to make it through the losers bracket and qualify. 

With 5 teams in the losers bracket who have been to the previous CoD Champs. No one knew who was going to make it. OpTic is the only team to have made it to the past 2 out of 2 CoD Champs and everyone wanted them to make it to their third. With FaZe, compLexity, OpTic, and Curse LV, and Justus all needing only one match to knock them out of the qualifiers and saying goodbye to their chances of being champions. A couple of the teams held on with their first round in the losers bracket. FaZe sweeping Final Boss with a 3-0 victory means they only needed one more win to make them able to play in champs. Curse LV had the most upsetting moment of the night though, with them going to a final map final round count on Octane Search and Destroy, everyone knew that whoever won this round, deserved to continue. They played Curse NY and lost with the upset of the former world champions of Parasite, MiRx and Killa not having the chance to make it to champs. 

Round 2 of the losers bracket was where it all got everyone eager to know who will make it and who won't. Everyone shaking with the possibility that compLexity, OpTic and FaZe might not make it. The performances were very please. FaZe moved on to beat Vexx 3-0 securing their position in CoD Champs with ease. OpTic Gaming with a win they will never forget and the closest one in round 2 losers bracket. They played against Curse NY who were on their momentum from beating Curse LV and they showed OpTic the matches of their lives. Going to final map with Curse, OpTic was showing strength. They played them on Freight Search and Destroy and Matt "Nadeshot" Haag made the fans jump out of their seats. With OpTics full team pulling through, Nadeshot showed up in the final map with an impressive 12 kills and 4 deaths winning the SnD 6-1 and eliminating Curse NY, moving OpTic into CoD Champs safe and sound. 

The 8 teams who qualified for Call of Duty Championships to compete against the 24 other teams (19 different countries) are, Strictly Business who lead on the Sunday to win the US Finals over compLexity. Who indeed fought through the losers bracket. Team Kaliber, Rise Nation, and EnVy Us made it with ease on day one giving them high seeds for CoD Champs. OpTic Gaming, FaZe, compLexity and XFinity Gaming all made it on day one with their fight through the losers bracket. 


Thursday, March 13, 2014

New Generation Consoles and Call of Duty Ghosts


Teams are changing with rosters. But now, rosters are done being changed and there is a new change in the MLG Competitive scene.

With Ghosts being a game many teams are still getting used to, it is starting to have a great outlook on the next generation consoles. Call of Duty Regional Championships were played on the Xbox One and many pro players say that it is a better game then when they played it on the Xbox 360. Which brings to the conclusion that Infinity Ward did indeed make Ghosts to be better handled on the new generation Xbox One and PlayStation 4. With both systems being built better than their 8 year old counterparts, the new games are all gonna be built based on how the new consoles run. So when ghosts first came out, it was built for the Xbox One, but everyone could only play it on the Xbox 360 because the One wasn't even out yet. So what were the common things said about the game buy pros and little people alike?
"This game is bad."
 "This game was built by people who don't know how to make games."
Pro players and other competitive players didn't think that the game would be able to make it the full year that it will be out before the next game comes to light. But with everyone now realizing that the game was made for pretty much a different console, and have played it on that console. The game is starting to succeed on the competitive circuit as we like to see games do. The game is as enjoyable for everyone who loves watching Call of Duty as it always has been and growing.

What are the downfalls of this though? The downfalls are, with a game that is mediocre on the 360 compared to when it is played on the One, but the One is very expensive for some people to be able to buy. It makes it hard for those competitive players to be able to just go to any event they want to and play the game they wanna go pro in. So it creates a struggle for the majority of the population that plays Call of Duty. Everyone wants to play the better version of the game, but only some can. Those who are able to get the next generation console. Those who can't, are stuck sort of in the past with the mediocre version of Ghosts not being able to experience the game that they bought.