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I believe ultimately analog and esports will merge. Where big, strong athletes who also happen to be very good at games are the new celebrities of sports. You
by bredren 8y ago
I believe ultimately analog and esports will merge. Where big, strong athletes who also happen to be very good at games are the new celebrities of sports.
You look at the complexity and strategy shifts necessary in a game like DOTA and the NBA rules are boring in comparison.
But if you look at the physical capability of the NBA and the training it requires it makes esports players look softer than soft.
What I’m curious about is how AR will bind these, and how it will be well-spectated.
- viraptor 8y ago> makes esports players look softer than soft. I'm not sure why this is... an opinion at all? They do different things. Nobody compares an NBA player to (for example) Ronnie O'Sullivan and says he's softer than soft - even if the difference is similar. Why be judgemental like that about eSports?
- bredren 8y agoI think esports are awesome. The players just aren’t physically strong. And I think mainstream spectators will not completely let go of wanting to see people demonstrating what they can do not just physically but in complex gameplay strategy and tactics. To your example, I don’t see snooker becoming some major thing, but I do think some kind of hybrid virtual / physics MOBA could be a major sport for a long time.