5. They Get Way Too Big
A common thing to see nowadays is public tournaments for these shooter games, most notable Call of Duty, which even got it's own event last year, titled CODXP. XP was an event dedicated to Call of Duty, with players competing in clans and teams to win in a few rounds of Black Ops, and it also served as the reveal for MW3's multiplayer. It seems so unnecessary to have these events, can't you just upload the trailer to YouTube instead? I even saw a video from a commentator I watch about the event, whose friend gave her a ticket when the friend found out she couldn't take her cat. She wanted to take a cat to gaming event. Speaking of commentators, they're part of the problem. The developers will fail to patch issues unless a commentator rants about it, and after the video goes up, BAM, the issue is fixed. I have no disrespect for these people; they do a good job of entertaining people and they get paid a boat load of money for it, but it just seems that what a video-maker says, goes these days. It happens to both the community and developers, they feel the need to exercise the commentors' will, when really developers should instead rely on the community for update ideas.