>>723564223
Just make it fun. Make the characters look nice, make it feel good to move around and use attacks, make the aesthetic and music cool, add various game modes to encourage variety.

Fuck tournaments, fuck people who play the game as a source of income, fuck prize pools, fuck dumbing down everything so it can turn into a safe product that can attract sponsors, fuck sweats who argue with each other in youtube videos over frame data and hitboxes, fuck structuring the entire game's lifecycle around competitive "seasons" that prioritize tournament schedules over gameplay updates and new content. EVERY game that ties itself to "esports" (as if there is such a thing) sucks as a result and we are witnessing the only natural end of the whole thing: bought out by Saudi Arabia to wave around as an attraction for tourists when everyone knows it loses money, but makes the buyer look better.