Esports will never happen for this franchise, and that has been the case since warband. Mount and blade falls into the genre of games that form loyal but small but still sizeable fanbases that play the game, in the same way games like Gears of War, For Honor and other games that have deep and time consuming to learn mechanics. The problem with Bannerlord is that it sucks major ****. It will never, ever, be close to the quality of warband in terms of meaningful simplicity and responsiveness. On top of that, bannerlord is not fun. These are the main things that ruined the game for me:
1) Extremely slow shield infantry, moving at the pace of a handicapped chicken
2) Stance system, major garbage adding nothing to the game other than easy predictions on faster animations
3) Classes, the biggest ****ty choice ever made in the multiplayer aspect of the multiplayer
4) Skirmish, a horrible mode to replace battle, made to create a competitive yet easier and satisfying environment for casuals. The bad thing is that not even casuals give a **** about bannerlord
5) Captain meme and PvP-modes balance is shared
6) Lack of personality, falls into the category of things destroyed by the class system
7) No progression. It's 2020, you dont have to put items that give advantage in combat for progression. Titles, outfits, something for players to chase.
Lack of servers
9) Development team that is clueless, literally, about their own game. I could rant for hours at the ****ty job they do, but I won't, the patch notes are evident.
10) And the worst of all, denial. People have been screaming that BL will suck since beta 2019.
