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Physician
United States4146 Posts
"The government is certainly aware of the growing trend, as it has given the green light to more game-related activities."
I honestly expect pro-gaming to reach the same Korean economical heights in time; less than 10 years from now if you want my estimate. That is of course if the Chinese government does not out law or restrict it. This is something that still could and has happened. So far they have been tentatively fostering it with some set backs in the past brought about mainly to exert a tighter control on the budding industry with the pretext of cyber cafe's fires and people wasting too much time on MMORPG's.
As I wrote a few years back if the 180 million (potential) Chinese gamers enter the market - welcome to a new world in e-sports..
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a copy/paste of recent main stream press News in China:
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1060253
Cyber athletes earn millions (of Yuan) in China Xinhua
BEIJING: Twenty-one-year-old Li Xiaofeng can champion himself as one of the highest-paid athletes in China.
However, one will never see Li competing at the Olympics or in the NBA. He is a professional E-game player, or cyber athlete who works out just as much as other athletes.
"I play 70 hours a week, just to keep my 'skills' from dropping," Li said. "I have to arrange my time really carefully so I don't spend too many hours in front of the computer to protect my eyes and my hands from getting exhausted."
Said a cyber competition organizer: "Top players who win cyber game competitions are rewarded with huge bonuses ranging from 100,000 to 1 million yuan ($12,660 to $126,600 US).
The players also earn a lot from sponsorships from game producers. So it is easy for them to earn one million yuan a year.
Li agrees the hard work is worth it. "The pay is good," he said. Warcraft III, Counter Strike, Starcraft: Broodwar and Winning Eleven are the four most popular cyber games at competitions.
China now has 23 million on-line game players, surging from 13.8 million in 2003. The China State Sport General Administration declared in 2003 that electronic sports were the 99th ranked sport activity.
Revenue from the country's on-line gaming sector alone is expected to reach nearly seven billion yuan ($886 million), with further predictions that it will double to 14.3 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) in 2010.
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Another source, more info: Shanghaidaily.com
Some old articles on the subject if you are interested in the subject and have not read them before.
The Future of e-Sports
Have Starcraft, Will Pay.
Chinese Crack Down
The Future of Starcraft
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Li Xiao Feng, for any only-SC gamers, is known as "Sky" and has just won WCG 2 times in a row.
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Snet
United States3573 Posts
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lol i think e-sports is a bit higher than the 99th ranked sport in china
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i hope this doesn't turn into another stupid, "Why shouldn't e-sports be in the Olympics".
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Baltimore, USA22261 Posts
Would LOVE to see it take off. The more countries e-sports become mainstream in, the better.
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Braavos36402 Posts
if china gets really good, we can see some pretty nasty china vs korea sponsored nationwars
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china is very conservative when it comes to expense on something thats worthless. the ideology of gaming is not going to get u anywhere is deeply planted in everybodys mind. they r afraid if they make gaming a big event in china, all the kids gonna give up studying and become game holics and mess up their school.
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On November 01 2006 11:46 keke wrote:
china is very conservative when it comes to expense on something thats worthless. the ideology of gaming is not going to get u anywhere is deeply planted in everybodys mind. they r afraid if they make gaming a big event in china, all the kids gonna give up studying and become game holics and mess up their school.
Exactly... Chinese people have yet to understand the concept of moderation
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On November 01 2006 11:46 keke wrote:
china is very conservative when it comes to expense on something thats worthless. the ideology of gaming is not going to get u anywhere is deeply planted in everybodys mind. they r afraid if they make gaming a big event in china, all the kids gonna give up studying and become game holics and mess up their school.
put any country in the place of china in this phrase and you have a true statement. And july did not fucking say that! you liar!
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On November 01 2006 11:53 azndsh wrote:Show nested quote +On November 01 2006 11:46 keke wrote:
china is very conservative when it comes to expense on something thats worthless. the ideology of gaming is not going to get u anywhere is deeply planted in everybodys mind. they r afraid if they make gaming a big event in china, all the kids gonna give up studying and become game holics and mess up their school. Exactly... Chinese people have yet to understand the concept of moderation
well when games are that fiercely scorned upon by all parents in china sometimes not very rationally, the teenagers as a reaction will rebel against it and go overboard just like it is with everything else.
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i don't see how china's case is very different from korea. in many sense, china has a far liberal mind than korea. remember the motto? "to make money is good!" do you see korea as more or less conservative than china? if it can happen in korea, then there is absolutely no market driven obstacle to stop it from happening in china. there are millions of gamers in college or workforce. magazines are on sale on every street corner. the only obstacle now is government control which can be overcome with time.
and remember, with the market china has, progaming doesn't even need to be as big at state level like korea. it just needs a stable following which it already has now.
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On November 01 2006 11:46 keke wrote:
china is very conservative when it comes to expense on something thats worthless. the ideology of gaming is not going to get u anywhere is deeply planted in everybodys mind. they r afraid if they make gaming a big event in china, all the kids gonna give up studying and become game holics and mess up their school.
crazy china basher. ya... we don't have electricity in china to realize that the world is changing. in any case, social opinions takes up to around 30 years to catch up with reality, so even if China doesn't embrace it soon, it'll be just a matter of time seeing how computers require even less space than pingpong table which requires even less space than basketball court.
the reason for the 30 years is because youth are more ready to embrace new concepts, and it takes about 30 years for youth to become the mainstream "adult" body of a group of people.
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
China recently got Wal Mart to move in and now they are looking to E-Sports. China is just going to gobble us all up if we are not careful 
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