Aside from @opsct being my favorite @H1Z1KotK player, there's something else that I love about playing up his return. Huge part of what
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drives fans to sports is fandom to a player as a celebrity. In physical sports, teams are tied to geographic locations, so fans attach
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to the team of their city, stage, or college. In esports, you don't have that. Fans can attach to teams, but it's not as strong of an
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emotional connection as with a city, college, or whatever. The alternative is to create emotional attachment to the players themselves.
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You see this in traditional sports too (Favre, King Felix, Peyton) and especially in non-team sports (Tiger Woods, Serena Williams).
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Next level of that is not just attaching to the character of the player but to the story of the player. Wrestling does this extremely well.
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The rivalies, alliances, and betrayals are all played up in wrestling. It's about the entertainment. Just as true in NFL, NHL, etc
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The return of Opsct with such ceremony is about an emotional connection between the fans and a player, and by that extension, the game.
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Despite some messy patches, game breaking bugs, and rough months, this is why KotK continues to succeed.
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And no surprise from Daybreak either. MMOs live and die by these same social-emotional dynamics. Not their first rodeo.
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