Investing loads of money is no guarantee at all to have a good product, and I totally agree on that, you get a bad product you don't get success.
OWL can be successful (or not) from 2 different points of view:
- Ours, the community, for that would be enough to have a series of great games, but being them called OWL, or whatever doesn't change a thing, as long as we get the games and they are enjoyable.
- Blizzard's and the investors who bought into OWL, for them is about revenue, if they don't get a good revenue the product won't be considered succesfull.
To get the 2nd you need the first.
I was one of the guys with many doubts about the success of OWL, and I'm still not sure tbh, I have the feeling (and is just a feeling) that they didn't care enough for the community, I'm afraid that the OWL arrived too late not too early in OW's life (and I'm not speaking from a financial point of view), and hope to be completely wrong in this.
Why am I afraid? Because this is now a product in which a lot of money has been invested and to keep it running more money will have to be invested and you don't get investemnts if you don't see a steady growth of revenue year after year (companies usually settle for nothing less than +15%/year)
If investors start to pull out of OWL, that will not only spell the end of the league but probably the whole OW pro scene, and eventually the game itself.
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