Website Arena spectator mode

[jiujama]

hello i hope my suggestion will be taken seriously and i hope players will support this suggestion too

So my question is...will it ever be possible to spectate arena games in outland TBC 2.4.3 version? I used to play a very outdated MMO called Kal Online, and it had "Arena tournament" once a week on Sundays, but all the matches were able to be spectated. Allowing spectator mode would do more good than it would do harm, honestly.

1. It would allow players to spectate some of the E-Famous players, learn from them, etc.
2. It would allow players to spectate and witness (and be able to report) some of the negative things that go on in arenas (such as blatant wintrading).

Obviously some things would need to be done to prevent spectators from cheating in favor of one team (ex. Don't allow spectators to see stealthed players until they leave stealth).

There could be many ways of arranging this (ex. you spectate one team, and when their arena queue pops, you are given the option of "Join as Spectator", or perhaps allow you to search for games above a certain MMR that you'd like to watch)

As for how the games would be spectated, there could be interesting ways of setting that up. Maybe you can flip through the point of view of each player that is unstealthed (similar to some FPS games - when you're dead, you can spectate your teammates), or perhaps allow each person to be a "ghost" and run around the arena and view the fight from where they'd like.

Another interesting way you could do this (if watching real time arenas games isn't possible), maybe allow players to "View recent games" of another player (similar to how CoD lets you view recent games).There's already addons that can save information (ex. Atrox Arena Viewer) of everything that happened in a match, every second because it takes information from the combat log, however addons like that can't capture the whole game because obviously, you can't see positioning of players, etc.



I'd love to hear suggestions on how the arenas spectator mode could be improved, too
if you with suggestions please added some reply and agree if not reply too and say no and why )

[wormdj17]

great idea

[fabiou]

I do agree it would be fun

[jiujama]

yeah i think so