KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Savious
Re: Professional gaming the biggest thing for physical sports is that they are also perfect for getting ratings from the lowest common denominator.
I should of course note that the NCAA is at least attempting to change rules so that the players are no longer as dumb as the typical beer sucking sports fan. (ie wanting the players to actually have real majors and not bullshit ones, Pretty much the era of basket weaving is over. And any smart athlete honestly should take business courses and marketing courses. If they go pro they are product, And if they do not know business and marketing the sponsors will take them over a barrel just like the RIAA does new bands.)
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Re: Professional gaming said by Savious:The Things coming out party.
WOW. This thread is awesome. |
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"e-sports" was dead when they tried to put Counter Strike on Direct TV... and CPL screwed all the winners over... i believe 2002-2005 is when esports died.. no MMO or RPG will regain what a FPS did back then.
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I think Riot did a great job with their broadcast. If they can continue to hype the game, than perhaps there is a future for all games?
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said by I AM:WOW. This thread is awesome.
I'd go so far as to say epic.
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SaviousPremium
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said by Kearnstd:the biggest thing for physical sports is that they are also perfect for getting ratings from the lowest common denominator.
I should of course note that the NCAA is at least attempting to change rules so that the players are no longer as dumb as the typical beer sucking sports fan. (ie wanting the players to actually have real majors and not bullshit ones, Pretty much the era of basket weaving is over. And any smart athlete honestly should take business courses and marketing courses. If they go pro they are product, And if they do not know business and marketing the sponsors will take them over a barrel just like the RIAA does new bands.)
There is much anger in you.
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I AMPremium
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kudos:4 | I think you're not seeing how vastly more popular pro sports is compared to video games. |
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SaviousPremium
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kudos:1 | They are; however, the younger generations may change that. |
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I AMPremium
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kudos:4 | Sports is still vastly more popular among the younger generation. How many inner city children or children who come from very "poor" families have a gaming pc or a gaming console? Its cheapier and easier for them to pick up a ball and play sports. |
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| said by I AM:Sports is still vastly more popular among the younger generation. How many inner city children or children who come from very "poor" families have a gaming pc or a gaming console? Its cheapier and easier for them to pick up a ball and play sports.
Indeed, but this first "pick-up" is what ingrains the interest to then be indoctrinated into a membership of a team.
said by Savious:They are; however, the younger generations may change that.
Please enlighten how an industry based on fanatical behavior towards an entity without any entities to be fanatical about is suddenly plausible due to age and current year on the calendar???
Sports is worth billions of dollars because of rooting for a "club" which the fanatics have membership into, but can not enjoy themselves because the bar of entry is to high. This fanatical membership is given at birth, to many. Ask anyone in Dallas what NFL team is best, or Pittsburgh, or travel to San Francisco and ask what MLB team is "number 1". Esports has fanatics that enjoy a game that the bar of entry has BEEN CLEARED, so they can do it on their own, and have no membership into a "club" to be fanatical for.
Most people watch after they confirm they can not do. People who can do usually don't waste time watching others do. Esports is voyeurism, sports is fanatical spectatorship. I'm lost what age does to change this.
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If it becomes professional sign me up! |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to Savious
speaking of sports.... They might want to start televising games of NHL 2K12, because the real thing aint happening this year.
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So it seems the general consensuses is this so fare in this thread:
Real life sports
- Has to much money backing it to fail
- Players are used as idols to faun over so that one can imagine getting hot sex with woman (look at the adds during a game and cut scenes towards the cheer leaders to confirm this check)
- cheaper to participate in locally and national a "club" to be a part of and lets face it ppl like being a part of something we are a herd animal by nature
- Been around a vary long time look back to gladiators during the Roman times its about being physical :P
eSports
- New generation will dictate the future so this can still happen as the trend of gamers only increase as the years go by
- Coverage and Sponsor backing is only growing as time goes on
- Has some established venues all ready like RTS / FPS and lets face it your a big company that wants a fat margarine make a competitive "sport" portion in your game and you will suck ppl in that like team work and competition now host a even to have teams compete and ppl will pay into it Cha-Ching.... Blizzcon + wow arena matches
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I don't think real life sports will ever go away but I do believe that eSports will continue to grow to maybe some day rival real sports its just a evolution of time and what ppl spend there time doing. Both have a "club" feel... And as computers get to be more dirt cheep and network info structure continues to grow more and more people are getting to play video games in poverty areas after all video games are passing movies as a favored past time in the US. Its all just a matter of time my friends. |
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| What we might also be missing is that video games or games played by the mind has been around as long as physical games as well. Games such as checkers, chess and other board games has been around a very long time but it's still not as popular as physical games. |
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a chess grandmaster? Maybe about 10 people in the world understand what's going on at the actual time.
The other 99% of chess players even, have to analyze that shit for weeks aftewards.
Football? he got hit... analysis done |
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| said by TheThing:Football? he got hit... analysis done
He got hit. Something homo hom homo. Done. |
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