EPTOn September 23 2009 12:23 TheYango wrote:
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Despite the desire to compare a game like Starcraft to a sport, the gaming industry as a whole is far more analogous to other entertainment media like cinema or music.
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Despite the desire to compare a game like Starcraft to a sport, the gaming industry as a whole is far more analogous to other entertainment media like cinema or music.
What I feel makes the divide between videogame players much different than the other ones you mentioned is that with videogames, it's not that people have different approaches to the same thing, it's that they're all playing very different things that have been generalised under a really flawed umbrella term. What people call a videogame is really any set of electronically handled rules that respond to input, with the output being meant only for entertainment. Whether those rules are meant for competition or simply to act as an entertainment experience is something that's completely ignored, because generally people only have experience with one of the two and apply their assumptions about one to the other.
It's ridiculous. It's the equivalent of having flamewars between people who like novels and people who like instructional manuals.
