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You are right, esport fans can fill stadiums but there is a subtle difference to regular sports. Riot Games (LoL) and Valve (Dota2) reliably compete with each
by throwaway51211 4y ago
You are right, esport fans can fill stadiums but there is a subtle difference to regular sports.
Riot Games (LoL) and Valve (Dota2) reliably compete with each other over the most price pool contributions in these large tournaments. I wanted to say, "this is $Corp pushing their product" but i have to correct it a little to " fostering their market".
Compare this with traditional soccer leagues and fan clubs and you wont find a big company hunting short term profits with short lifed products that threatens the whole scene.
- Ekaros 4y agoIt is pretty clear that the biggest most hyped tournaments have the draw. But some models might not be able to live just on those. So it becomes question can they draw people week by week in sufficient numbers. The traditional sports are build on this. Even smaller sports can pull some crowd in.
- me_me_me 4y agoIts all about the: game design - how high is skill ceiling observer mode - how well it is to spectate the game Overwatch is terrible as spectator experience vs CS which is probably the cleanest and easiest to watch and understand what is going on