@BrianFargo I'm familiar with your history as a creator but admit that I've never actually sat down to play your games. It's great to see you join the Xbox crew and I feel obligated to finally try out Wasteland 2 which is conveniently on Game Pass. Good luck to you and your team!
@Thooorin LDLC and NRG are fine examples of young, raw talents who for one reason or the other couldn't perform to their level individually but deliver on their skill in commadary with similar players. Maybe it's a matter of having less pressure and therefore playing looser.
@Thooorin Do you think Faze are keeping Karrigan around because they genuinely want to rework the team without swapping players? My assumption is that the org, despite being incredibly wealthy, don't want to pay another large buyout be it NBK pre-Vitality nor Sunny.
@dekay Unlike traditional journalism, there's less of a barrier between esports journalists and their readers. Reddit is a site that can help your work find an audience which you can personally interact with, but that comes with its own pros and cons. Can you speak to this dynamic?
@dekay I think most people tried to be optimistic about bringing in Snax. Yeah, he's a bit washed up, but maybe a new environment could reinvigorate his superstar form in some semblance. Unfortunately, not only did this fail to pan out, but Mouse losing Styko was an additional blow.
@Thooorin The longer automatic fills in as C9's awper, the more worried I get that he's only going to end up wrecking his own rifle game. For what, giving Skadoodle a break instead of making the necessary cut? This team is an absolute mess.
@Thooorin Liquid are an incomplete team relative to Astralis. They lack a dedicated awper, a clutch factor in the same capacity as a Xy9x, a traditional IGL, a consist. superstar (maybe Twist can change this), grit as well as a talismanic player. Can they be #1 with this roster?
@Thooorin Is the NA region beginning to value IGLs more? I look at Steel joining Ghost, Stan and coL, Daps leading NRG and even C9 picking up Golden as examples. All of whom, barring C9, have found relative success with these additions. It seems like the narrative is changing.
@RLewisReports Hey Rich, do you think people are underrating Stan as an IGL? The circumstances surrounding his time in Liquid and OpTic were unfortunate and not very indicative of his ability to call. I think coL got away with highway robbery picking him up. Keep it real brother.