That thread.
In 2015, Frontier announced a CQC tournament. The $100,000 wasn't a prize. It was the total budget.
The tournament was cancelled in July. Frontier cited "delays".
Its successor, the Icarus Cup, was also cancelled. Frontier cited nothing.
Today, I played CQC for the first time. My best result saw me winning a full DM. It was one of only 3 full matches I had all day.
Over the course of the next 8 hours (on and off) and 20+ TDM and DM matches, I averaged 14 minutes of wait time for matches to start, found myself in a very small pool of players, and at the end of it I have absolutely no idea why anyone would play it. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some people have their reasons for enjoying it and becoming great at it, but I couldn't find one for me. I am 60% into Mostly Helpless and I have no intention of ever going back. Not because I lost. I did. But I also won a bunch. I just don't care.
Does anyone here have any idea why this entirely separate game mode, which is part of the flagship game of a £500 million market cap developer, is so unbelievably unloved?
Why did they keep announcing tournaments and cancelling them? Why is there no rank balancing in the matchmaking? Why are there no decent rewards for spending your time in this mode other than unlocking mode-specific loadouts and watching people explode? Why are there only 3 game types and so few maps that you can count them on one hand? Why does nobody at Frontier care about CQC at all? This is a legitimate, honest, painful question to ask. Is it total incompetence or utter disinterest in their part? Because this is just sad.
In 2015, Frontier announced a CQC tournament. The $100,000 wasn't a prize. It was the total budget.
The tournament was cancelled in July. Frontier cited "delays".
Its successor, the Icarus Cup, was also cancelled. Frontier cited nothing.

Today, I played CQC for the first time. My best result saw me winning a full DM. It was one of only 3 full matches I had all day.

Over the course of the next 8 hours (on and off) and 20+ TDM and DM matches, I averaged 14 minutes of wait time for matches to start, found myself in a very small pool of players, and at the end of it I have absolutely no idea why anyone would play it. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure some people have their reasons for enjoying it and becoming great at it, but I couldn't find one for me. I am 60% into Mostly Helpless and I have no intention of ever going back. Not because I lost. I did. But I also won a bunch. I just don't care.
Does anyone here have any idea why this entirely separate game mode, which is part of the flagship game of a £500 million market cap developer, is so unbelievably unloved?
Why did they keep announcing tournaments and cancelling them? Why is there no rank balancing in the matchmaking? Why are there no decent rewards for spending your time in this mode other than unlocking mode-specific loadouts and watching people explode? Why are there only 3 game types and so few maps that you can count them on one hand? Why does nobody at Frontier care about CQC at all? This is a legitimate, honest, painful question to ask. Is it total incompetence or utter disinterest in their part? Because this is just sad.