Long term hype is very different from initial release hype. Once the game has been out for a few months the wave of people that are considered hardcore players will either stick or move on, and it becomes necessary for the highest level of players to step up and come up with new and better ways to play when this time comes. These are usually the professional players and depending on how well the game plays competitively more people will learn towards the game or turn away from it. I've seen this happen in many games, LoL, Dota, Halo, CoD and so on.

Thimk hes more on about the game being balanced around pvp if mlg are getting in on it. Same thing happens in wow. Its basically balanced around pvp I think as that many ppl cry about pvp in that game. As for mlg.. never played with them dont really care.

WoW is balanced around PvE first and foremost and I expect that to be the case here mostly. I feel that balancing an FPS won't take as much as it took to balance an actual MMO however, so I doubt balancing will be the issue. I meant mostly that once games such as WoW and CoD went MLG they got MUCH more popularity and exposure.

Yeh I get ya. Witg the exposure thing. But the amount of shit nerfed in wow because of pvp implications is rediculous.. or at least it seems that way. I remeber paladins got a huge nerf because of pvp QQ

Yes I did hate when things got nerfed due to PvP in WoW, but to be fair there was usually something MASSIVELY overpowered to cause a PvP nerf and Blizzard would usually (not always) give a buff in another area to compensate for the lost power. Paladins have always gone from being massively OP to slightly UP though. One of the largest reasons I rerolled lol