Umm since when does a prize pool have anything to do with marketing? A prize pool is generally related to the amount of money the event produces when it comes to viewership numbers,sponsors etc etc,it has fuck all to do with your marketing budget. The bigger money that a product can bring in,the bigger the prize pool. So Halo has the biggest prize pool because it can draw in the biggest revenues. Usually that means a better quality product,but not always. There is a reason that Halo,CS and other big,high quality shooters have the biggest prize pools compared to games like Homefront since we are using that as an example here (which doesnt even have MP for the record lol)

So you compared halos marketing to homefronts. Cute.

Since the publisher of the game is the one holding the event we are talking about. Can I get someone to talk to who actually knows anything about video games instead of people who try to relate anything to their beloved franchise.



Again, no. It might be time to let the adults talk now. When you grow up you can join the conversation.

Are you actually that delusional. Do you even know what marketing is lol. Do you think a prize pool in poker or salaries in sports have anything at all to do with a marketing budget?No it has to do with revenue. Marketing is all about ads and getting your game out there,not about the prize pool of an event. If a Halo event can draw Sprite as a sponsor and get put on ESPN and Titanfall can get Fred's Grocery store as a sponsor and put on ESPN 34,which one do you think is going to have a bigger prize pool? Unless fred's grocery store is paying more then sprite to be the official sponsor and ESPN 34 is paying more for the TV rights then ESPN for halo,then the answer is halo.

Its pretty simple business really,and has nothing to do with my "love" of halo,which for the record i think is highly overrated. I'd love to see where there is a breakdown of a game's budget and where it says competitive events prize pool is included in marketing lol

I will answer your question with a question. Do you know the role of a video game publisher?



So, your argument is the publisher, Microsoft, had nothing to do with the event hosted by Microsoft. Or is it that the publisher had nothing to do with an event about its game.

This post was edited by ROM on Mar 25 2017 03:25pm

Yeah I got you

When did I say that the publisher didn't have anything to do with it lol. I said that there marketing dollars don't account for prize pool money. The prize pool of a game, or any event in general, video games or not is based on the revenue it earns. If you go to a sporting event and buy a 50/50 ticket the "prize pool" is only as big as the people willing to pay make it. In any video game event the prize pool is based off of how much money that event can bring in. If in this case Microsoft gives the prize pool they know ahead of time what there revenue will be. Spenser X gives them 1 million and the tv deal gives them another million. They pick a percentage of that 2 million as the prize pool and pocket the rest. Marketing has zero effect on the specific pool prize unless your argument is more marketing= more eyes= more money from sponsors= bigger prize pool. Which while true technically is not what you were trying to make your argument, or you at least made it seem that it wasn't

Lol it's obviously still a big deal if they have bigger money prize pools then any PlayStation game made.

Destiny isn't truly competitive and they are now trying to make it so but any competitive fps player from any true competitive fps game will all agree destiny is a joke when it comes to competitive. Destiny is a casual game abd extremely easy to do good in because they give you an insanely high amount of aim assist.

Your not got at shooters so you wouldn't even begin to understand what makes Halo such a great competitive fps game. You can hate on it all you want and it may not be as big as it used to be but it's still the standard when it comes to competitive fps on console.

Saying destiny is competitive is like saying overwatch is competitive.

Everytime. Who cares what sells more/which is better? Its all opinions. Play the games you like and shut the fuck up.