EPTeSports: A Short History of Nearly Everything - Page 10
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Kenzuku
Sweden2 Posts
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sraelgaiznaer
Philippines423 Posts
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Snipershot
United Kingdom59 Posts
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ciaiei
Finland41 Posts
for example both Jax money crew and complexity had DOA players signed before CGS. DOA then being one of the more popular fighting games. | ||
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D.Devil
Germany227 Posts
August 2008: For the first time in its history, the ESWC doesn't take place in France, but in San Josè, USA, near the corporate head quarters of main sponsor Nvidia – in terms of spectator attendance, it flops. The event features Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike Female, WarCraft 3, Quake 3, TrackMania Nations ESWC (a special edition of the racing game specifically created for the tournament) as well as the WC3 mod Defense of the Ancients (DotA) – it's the first major tournament to host a tournament for the increasingly popular game. It's the first one of its kind; today, games like DotA, LoL and HoN are usually called Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA). This is the time when DotA becomes present in esports and successful organizations like SK Gaming, MeetYourMakers and mousesports field own teams, even though they are usually haunted by lineup instability and other problems. League of Legends being added to the Intel Extreme Masters in 2011 marks the esports breakthrough of MOBA games. | ||
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UniversalMind
United States326 Posts
On August 01 2011 05:26 D.Devil wrote: tl;dr was really hoping to see you get a warning for first posting with that crap amazing OP my case is a sad cause cause I had no ideal all this was going on when I played online games for fun, I was very good at counter strike but never knew I could possibly make money from it being a pro <.< was to focus on other things in life I guess Good Job | ||
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Mattchew
United States5684 Posts
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Inkarnate
Canada840 Posts
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Dwelf
Netherlands365 Posts
Gj otherwise! | ||
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hellgoat
Sweden30 Posts
Would've loved some mention of that game. Quakecon has had a couple of pretty big tournaments featuring the game, as well as RtCW. Though I guess coming from that community myself bias can't be ruled out :p | ||
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R4iD
Canada142 Posts
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Semtext
Germany287 Posts
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Shollef
Sweden40 Posts
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mnck
Denmark1518 Posts
As djWheat and Slasher always talk about. The past is important when talking about the future! eSport is here to stay. | ||
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FallDownMarigold
United States3710 Posts
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zipz0p
United States123 Posts
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mavsfan0041
United States306 Posts
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rtsAlaran
Germany383 Posts
On August 01 2011 20:01 D.Devil wrote: Thanks! You know, someone had to do it. Just watched your ESFI interview – omg, it's just great. Everyone should watch it. thanks! another wave of eSport-chills around @9minute mark <3 | ||
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DND_Enkil
Sweden598 Posts
On August 01 2011 21:51 D.Devil wrote: added this to please all the MOBA fanatics – however, it still remains true that DotA never played a huge role for the development of esports despite its huge player numbers. Maybe that is true, you probably know more about the subject then me. However it is also a bit to early to say what the long-term impact will be. LoL is doing a lot of interesting things, from an "E-sports" perspective. * Riot are, or at least rumored to be, aggressivly bying themselves into E-sports events, and possibly forcing other more hard-core games out (Quake). * LoL are free-to-play, and are boasting some frigging huuuuuge player numbers: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=247901¤tpage=23 * Riot is actively supporting LoL events by linking to streams from within the game client, i belive they are the first developer to succesfully pull this off? That is probably a big reason why there where sick wiever numbers at DH:Summer. All in all the buisness model might be the future for E-sport games, or it might just die out. Hard to say, people where saying that Farmville was going to die and it is going stronger than ever i belive. I find it quite interesting, despite never having even played a MoBA game. But that might be going a bit off-topic from your OP, you tried not to focus to much on different games and more on the events as such, and not to much on current events and possible futures. | ||
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tripledoubles
Australia213 Posts
Eventually getting curious about the FPS scene, getting Team Fortress mod for Quake and suddenly losing so much sleep. Getting HalfLife and thinking it was the best game ever until my friend recommended me some random mod called Counter Strike. The professional gaming world has come so far. Hats off to you. | ||
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