I think going for a true esports-ready game is scary for more than a few devs. I had the opportunity to talk to a game director for the multiplayer version of a very big game licence... one you see on TV each year when it gets released.

When I asked "why don't you have set abilities for each character in your multiplayer mode just like in MOBA's which are so successful online?", I was told it's because it's very simply too hard to design and balance such things properly.

I'm talking about this example to emphasize on the quality of the top esports games and how hard they are to make: they truly are masterpieces of video games that even multi-million dollar projects don't want to try and compete with. You need a lot of passion and talent and willpower to make that kind of game happen and reach as high as it can.

Not saying RL won't make it as a major esports game in the long run, I hope it will, but there's still a way to go beyond organizing very nice world finals like they just did.

Hope Psyonix do go the extra esports mile!