Its at tournaments but its not that popular there. Like locals in my area have pretty much stopped running it outside of regionals/majors in favor of tokon/avatar

they did almost everything wrong you can do a spinoff product:

the marketing.

the name.

the business model.

the subgenre.

a full price 1v1 focused game with branding that clearly connected it to league and with a fat roster (idk make a lot of characters about the same with different specials unique supers to save money) would've been way more appealing to their audience.

instead they make some tag nightmare when they said they wanted it to be approachable to new players, and did fuckall to reach the sickos who like watching league or to have enough characters that enough people could play their main.

funny you mention brood war because the one problem that 2xko didn't have is competing with previous versions of itself, which is a big problem for ongoing competitive series where the best one is 20+ years old but you still have to shit out some new thing full of mtx and $1000 of downloadable costumes that used to be on the disc.

in development it had the codename "project L" and other than now they're holding one, at least that name was vaguely connectable to league of legends. shame a bunch of artists and developers lost their jobs instead of the dipshit who came up with the name.

Having to learn basic game mechanics in multiplayer is really annoying. Might be less of a problem at launch when there are other noobs but later on it just gets super toxic.

That would have just crashed harder because casual gamers dont play fighting games and fighting game players are the ultimate sweatlord and are there for 1v1

Japan keep publishing anime based fighting games no? I don't know if is financially successful but if not why the hell they keep releasing new ones?

Probably if it's small enough scale like MOFUMOFUSENSEN. Everyone's trying to become the next street fighter or w/e equivalent because they're stupid.

You said original . Cause that is fair.

Cause exisiting IPs can do just fine. Thinking of stuff like Streetfighter, Tekken, Mortal Kombat , Smash etc.

I feel like folks show up for those no problem.

But yeah new "large" fighting game is a hard and tough arena.

Servers are still going to be up, just won't be any more stuff added.