Through out the last couple of decades eSport or more known as video gaming has been a part of the western worlds culture.
Three years ago the future for this so-called professional gaming seemed very bright. With big names such as Jonathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendell and Sander ‘Vo0’ Kaasjage earning thousands of green dollar bills in competitions. The mainstream media picked up interest in showing geeks becoming big time moneymakers through gaming, actually you could compare it with the poker boom with Moneymaker's WSOP.
Gaming contests would take place in huge arenas with tons of screaming fans, with thousands of people watching it on TV or via webstream. Turtle Entertainment the biggest eSport organization even started to develop a brand new arena only meant for eSport and it's massive crowds.
Money is a very important factor in the future of this sport, it costs money to put up a LAN event just as it costs big time money for the participants to travel perhaps around the world to attend them. Thankfully, this is where our very beloved sponsors step in. Companies, organizations or even city councils around the world are really catching the fact what eSport can do for them.
The question goes what can we as a gamer expect to see in the future? What type of people will be the next top eSport stars?[/u]
I personally think after CPL started up again that the age restrictions will get a big higher, not by much but still something you can feel in the communities.
However this is also a very good thing for gaming itself as it will be more attractive to sponsors and the media will take it even more serious if they see a big time professionel group of people playing games rather than some small teenagers swearing "noob", "SLAC ON" off another.
Looking at Korea it's already proven that eSport and it's communities can be well enough established to be at respected at the same level as many other big sports such as Handball, Football and many more.
Another big thing is that girl gamers are actually everywhere these days, we even have some in our community such as Evilynn or even Luna who I've heard has some sort of big relationship with top aimer butchji. Regardless of what the media insist, wormen arent soley interested in playing with doll houses, ponies, makeup.
Same goes for guys, not every guy is into First Person Shooters. Not every girl sits in-front of the computer and creates the perfect family in The Sims.
Younger generations of women are used to video gaming; and I like to think that there’s no longer much of a “Boys Only!” stigma attached to the activity.
Lastly I would like to finish this pretty much mindwordcoming column with a fictitious idea of what eSport might end up like.
Why?
Because 100% of new games are shit... Competition is not an option...
And young players wants flashy games... Who would want to play a game that my cellphone can run? [cs1.6] ? Excepts some oldskulers - noone...
Thats why ID made QL, and Bizzard SC2... TO refresh profitable games... But its nothing compared to amount of games that are being released nowadays, and because both q3 and sc are played for years, fresh blood is getting pwned hard... And they go back, and play sily casual games like CoD
if and when console gaming gets the same level of competition as PC gaming them developers will start to invest more into making their games more acceptable for the competitive community
also more research/guidance needs to be made into what actually makes a good competitive game. Is it the maps? the modes? the player count? the speed? ironsights? money? stats? its a whole unknown for a game developer to sit down and take a concept in their head and make it work competitively. 'Casual'/public gaming is a bit easier and you except players to play the game for say 3/4 maybe 6months then buy the next title so you just give them enough to achieve in that time.
Perhaps someone in their next column could write about what exactly makes ET so great and how future game developers can learn from it ":)"
That's not entirely true at all.
Also, what was the point in this column? It didn't really tell anybody new info or even disclose your opinion apart from the bit about CPL, but even that was pointless.
Good effort into writing this though, not going to take that away from you. I just feel you wasted your time, that's all.
What about nerds queen
lan in aalborg
with the recent(???) fps releases its kinda obvious that the gaming industry does not really care about "professional play" (any longer) but about sales revenues and making the games enjoyable for "sunday gamers".
i dont see any sport stars comming up in shooters.
You've clearly put in little to no research on eSports as it is currently. As a reader of this column I would expect to see comparisons between Western eSports and Eastern eSports; between the MLG and the GSL. What are their respective global audiences? Do more Western gamers watch the GSL then they do the MLG because it's considered more prestigious, or do more Western gamers watch the MLG because it is catered towards a Western audience?
What is holding Western eSports back? What are the lessons we can learn from Korea? Which area of gaming can take eSports forward? What role does Crossfire have in eSports?
Also, what happened with Aalborg?
As mentioned this is mostly about what I think esport will end like; girls, media & such.
What the fuck is this? To someone that doesn't know anything about Korean eSports (which I'm sure is the vast majority of people who will read this column), this is so ridiculously uninformative. How can you project the future without even drawing any comparisons to what the future is?!?!
Also, reply to my previous comment.
I know what I'm thinking anyway... :D
THE
FUCK
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THIS
SHIT.
Once there is this it will happen. But it won't. So this is pointless.
WHy us as gamers expect someone to host a lan and then run away with the moneyz?
good read, keep it going