EPTOn March 02 2016 23:30 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
just to add to ur point...
American soccer has been "breaking through" since 1975. Pele attracted a lot of sellouts and the #1 European football video game was NASL Soccer.... 40+ years and lots of rich people who love european football keep throwing money down the drain.
just to add to ur point...
American soccer has been "breaking through" since 1975. Pele attracted a lot of sellouts and the #1 European football video game was NASL Soccer.... 40+ years and lots of rich people who love european football keep throwing money down the drain.
The arguments are almost the same too. In American soccer, the growing number of Hispanic immigrants is supposed to make it popular enough to break through. In e-sports, it's supposed to be people who grew up playing videogames.
Well, the first people who grew up playing videogames are in their 40s now, maybe 50s. It's still the most likely hobby to be dropped once people start families and get more responsibilities in life. It's something to keep in mind whenever we see these debates about casualization. Plenty of hardcore gaming students decry the casualization of videogames until they get a job, become a homeowner, get married, have kids, become casual themselves, never to be heard from in a gaming forum ever again. It's still a very time consuming hobby that requires a massive time commitment. TV watching is still much easier to pick up and drop anytime.
I've been watching Starcraft since the days of the PGL and when Agent911 and Tillerman were duking it out for Blizzard champion. Who has heard of those guys recently? I know Zileas ended up in Riot after a stint at Blizzard. They were talking about e-sports already then. Same old song and dance. It's still pretty much for young people. Most of the biggest e-sports cheerleaders won't even remember their arguments here 10 years from now when their videogaming consists of sneaking a game of Clash of Clans in their dark office cubicle.
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