Sort of. Elo awards you points for wining, and takes away points for losing. Winning against high point players gives you more, and the opposite is also true.
However, Elo is a terrible system for team-centric games, as it was originally designed for chess. But, it’s all we have, unless someone conceptualizes a new system.
There are plenty of games that are not on pc that have competitive gaming.
Is it possible to standardize gear for just things like tourneys and what not? I kinda like having gear choices in the standard game.
Really? Where did you hear this? I’m rather curious to hear what they have to say. 
I don’t know why they won’t just straight up standardize gear altogether, meaning remove the rng element to what stats your gear gets when you obtain it and give every named item definitive stats that are shared with every drop of that same piece of gear.
I hope they don’t remove gear from competitive play because gear is part of what dictates your play style, especially legendary gear. Gearbox just has to figure out a way to standardize gear to make it a fair, non-rng-dependent playing ground.
I wouldn’t mind if they standardized the numbers on the legendary gear. It’s weird having two copies of the same legendary with the same cost but to have one have like 0.2% more of a given bonus than the other.
That’s what’s irritating. I don’t see the point in obtaining gear (especially legendary) if its almost certain to not be the best stats that it should be. There’s no reason in adding this rng to the game if it only holds back the game’s potential.
I don’t think the gear is a problem at all, I’ve never thought to myself that I could have won or would have killed that person if it wasn’t for their gear, it’s always been me making a bad move or them making a good one, if they have better gear than me it means they put in the time to fight the loot system and got the gear that they wanted, that’s a good thing for them they worked for it and got a slight edge and if wanted to play super conpetivly then I’d do the same thing, and I’ve seen a lot of low levels do better than the higher level players
I have seen a lot of things talking about how games that cost money to buy never break into e-sports (for reasons) with a good number of them actually having their online game modes die out. Now i love this game but gearbox is going against a juggernaut known as blizzard coming out the same month as overwatch. I am not trying to compare the two it is just i doubt many people are planning to buy both these games because either can satisfy a similar itch. So i can see a lot of hurdles and trials that battleborn will have to get through before they can establish themselves as an e-sport. From what i have heard from gearbox is that they will follow the player base (i am unsure if that really is a strong commitment to try and strive out into the e-sport area to begin with) so only time will tell. To be fare i think the only reason overwatch will become anything is because blizzard will push their game into that slot and dish out tons of their own money to make it into one.
I think we focus on what in the game needs to be changed or adapted to make it an e-sport but we have to see the outside factors, such as money (from sponsors and being poured into the game by players), commitment and performance from gearbox, staying power from players, all these and more are what will determine battleborn’s fate.
Destiny had an initial large player base, before everyone returned it, and it was never an esport because of the constant unbalance
The multiplayer also wasn’t that enjoyable, atleast for me, I don’t know anyone that would spend their time just watching someone play it, it didn’t have its own unique thing in the multiplayer, it was like call of duty with supers which call of duty actually kinda has now in the latest one
Until this game gets better numbers on PC, the odds of it becoming an eSport is exactly zero. It hinges entirely upon that, since it’s not possible to get a console game recognized as one.
I’d love to play battleborn conpetivly with teams, if te players started arranging matches themselves I think the developers would see that people really wanted this to happen
Let everyone know that tournaments are going on. Battlesphere.gg has a PC league and is in the process of starting a PS4 league. As well https://battlefy.com/rockjaw/ps4-helix-gamers-ameture-series-season-1-week-1/573b85b117f8c97a12c149ea/info is doing a weekly PS4 tournament.
Sorry for the slow reply.
This is the article that has a link to the interview with the devs.
All the nay sayers can keep on with their mentality but if other moba developer’s are praising it then it will definitely go somewhere.
I love you. O.O This is freaking awesome. I need to find out when these streams happen, so I can listen in…
I believe communities are horrible balancers. Mainly nerfs and bugs being asked constantly that make no sense but also how most don’t even all understand the characters well enough let alone the ones they play. Even amazing players have blinders on.
With esports in mind, do you see gear as a blinder ?
No e sport game is perfectly balanced and even then characters have counters. I’ve seen e sports games than just mop and wreck with the “weakest” characters. Smite has a great e sport community for example and many don’t even use these “op” gods. Popularity != OP/greater than.
Btw players AND characters are important know both how characters work and are being used will decide many games. I’ve seen people comboing their abilities on ways that break the meta but no one notices since its drowned out with popularity.
I have to agree with the GS thing though. Some people hate it without playing bc “they’ve seen gameplay” not experienced it. Is watching a documentary on sky diving as good sky diving no. Some stores I’ve heard were like you want to buy BB you mean OW right. That right there’s the problem while others such as myself are like try the beta here’s a demo. Give it a try. Then people get hooked. Unfortunately the biggest issue is OW these games are very very different but get stuck being compared in all the wrong ways. I too apologize for the rant 
have a good day
Kinda why ranking and ELO is important for character balancing.