[cryoshon]

Dota/CS:GO are a couple of my favorite games, and excel in eSports because they have impeccable balance, a huge fanbase, and extreme depth of play/recurring novelty. I think eSports wise both franchises are in for the long haul; the real challenge is to deal with the game-release-mediated ebb and flow of relative popularity.

There's also a ton more investment in the quality of the games themselves relative to console/cross released titles. The Battlefield and CoD series are great examples of titles completely incompatible with competitive play: there's hardly any balance, no spectator mode, games and DLC churned out every year, distant/apathetic devs/producers, made to be 100% approachable rather than engaging for people who invest more time, and buggy as shit without exception. Valve has found ways around these problems, and that is why they excel at eSports titles.