Not all MMOs are about vertical progression some have horizontal progression e.g. Gw2 which did have an esports scene for their battle grounds. However ESL shut it down last year finally.even for the few years it ran it's prize pool wasn't anything compared to other esports. However it did work as an esport.ESO PvP wouldnt be an esport without cheating. In the big picture of gaming ESO's population is garbage. No one plays ESO.
And I am pretty sure if ZOS has hard evidence someone is cheating, their policy is no different than Blizzard.
Lol. One of the few MMORPGs that can be called major and no one plays it. Ok
Do you know how many people play League, Dota2, or other real esport games? ESO doesnt even have a fraction of those numbers. Sorry.
First of all, you can't compare MOBAs to MMOs, doing that just makes you look ignorant. Secondly, no MMO will ever be viable esport material, simply because of how MMOs work. They are all about grinding BiS gear in a few weeks' time and stomping on everyone who isn't in one. As someone mentioned in this thread, the closest any MMO ever got to esports validation was Blade and Soul, simply due to it's arena system where gear was not really a factor.
Saying that ESO is "dead" or has no players, out of all MMOs out there, without any actual facts and only based on your own opinions of having played the game long enough to get burned out is literally the most ignorant thing you could do. ESO is one of the absolute biggest MMOs currently on the market (and I'm not talking about general games, I'm talking about MMOs) as proven by awards, nominations and literally devs giving out the population.
TL;DR you're ignorant
If someone gets banned for selling gold I am being 100% serious when I say I have no *** to give.
Fair enough. I however give a lot of ***, and I know a sizable amount of people who do as well. I'm not going to raise a witch hunt over it though