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There has been, the esports leagues. The viewership on the LoL championship game had a larger viewership than then Super Bowl. Edit: Got caught not reading the
by an0malous 1y ago
There has been, the esports leagues. The viewership on the LoL championship game had a larger viewership than then Super Bowl.
Edit: Got caught not reading the article, sorry. I’ll leave this up as a monument to my shame.
- JohnFen 1y agoHe did mention them. > The three leagues with even an argument for being not total failures are the NWSL, League of Legends Esports (LoL Esports), and LIV Golf. All have unique advantages over their counterparts, and yet none of them are profitable today or even on a very convincing path toward profitability.
- freedomben 1y agoTfa directly addresses LoL. > LoL Esports: loses hundreds of millions of dollars annually, exists solely as a marketing mechanism to get people to play the actual game
- klooney 1y agoIf viewership is high, does that matter? Football loses hundreds of millions of dollars for Proctor and Gamble, if you look at it a certain way.
- travisjungroth 1y agoIt’s a good point. You can view the unprofitable leagues as having one main sponsor, and then it’s just a matter of accounting. Profitability may not be a good metric.