Esport Poker League09th March 2008, 05:35
Joyful's Land of Amazing Wonderous Fun: eSports Future?
In years past we have seen games go from coin-operated Pinball machine, to a virtual world where thousands can go to find refuge from the real world. Little did they know, that the real world was about to partake in this virtual world with industry.
Thousands would flock at the gates of the professional gaming world. Where, just like sports, e-sports would only allow a few chosen to rise to the top, and some fall away. People would fight for a chance to become known. These people would then get sponsors, be enlisted into teams, and soon start a whole other world that people could survive from. Dominance has always been the key role humans want, and many claim the crown.
E-Sports - How high will it reach?
Where will this new world take us?
It has already infused its roots into some of our world powers. E-Sports, like regular sports, will become culturally acceptable in regions where they find it a joke. 'Win money by playing a game? Give me a break!' Soon they too will hop at the opportunity, for the more industry there is, the more money to be made.
But what games will become the pillars of this new look on sports? Like Horseracing, Soccer, and Boxing will the Games of Today, reign for many years? Or will the ever growing technology and gaming industry continue to bring other games to the top, while tearing down others reign of supreme gameplay?
E-Sports will only keep rising to new and different games and style gameplay. Could that hinder careers of professional gamers? Or will we have even more different sports than the regular sports combined? We still see some pretty old games continue to have competitions, even if locally. Will that last?
Unlike other sports, e-sports is always adapting and changing. Will the professionals be able to keep up? Or will they be brought down by the continued growth of competing top games. Could we be able to keep old games while making new games, and the gaming industry grow so fast and expand so large that even traditional sports are long and forgotten?
Professional gamers - Will they be able to keep up?
Are the e-Sports heros even more talented then the traditional sports players? They both require skill, and plenty of it, but whats harder? Both have their pros and cons that could beat on another. E-sports opens a whole world for everyone to roam free, and almost everyone to be able to access her gates without being made fun of. While sports is very tiring and could be pretty hard on the body. But, gaming could be the same. There are the same sides to both.
So many questions, many will be answered. Only time will tell, but let us hope that, however high we reach, professionals can remain professionals, and always be remembered as the first.
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problem with e-sports is that people lack the spirit required to be a good sportsman, new generations thend to be over-weight and lazy, they want games easy to master and fun to play - in general many sports are not so fun by themselves, but the competition and prestige makes them fun. you cant have everything, either step into the world of true sports or stick to the PC games made to entertain you.
gaming is dictated by pc industry and spoiled children, it's never about skill, in fact people define a good game by "the game doing 99% of things automatically and them doing only one aspect by themselves, aka choosing what to attack or whatever", if e-sports were turning to true spirit of sports then we'd see games like Starcraft much more popular than games like wow,etc. Only place which has the standards set right is South Korea, they respect the most game that requires the most skill and determination from the pla In Europe/USA/etc. it is twisted, people just want the game to be fun to play and look nice, god forbid it being hard to play and actually requiring Years of training to come close to maybe getting near to the path to mastering it, they want the new pc which daddy bought them to be used to maximum, why do i have this geforce 999999ZX if no game uses its potential? As for your thought on e-sports and sports - only 2-3games(maybe) deserve to be compared to sports, rest is just a joke and blasphemy to even wear a tag which consists of word "sport", money makes the cyber world go round n round, as long as it's that way we won't see new games being anywhere close to true sports. Last edited by Dendra at 10.03.2008, 15:05
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good read!
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(4 months ago)
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NeverGG
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nice read!
Better light a candle than curse the darkness!
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(4 months ago)
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I'll mention the side note first before making my comment. The second picture you used, Quakecon 2006 ET champions idle.ee, is actually fake. The guy on the left, Galahad, is just the manager and the real 5th pla
http://www.quakecon.org/images/news/qconlive/keypics/ aaf.jpg I know this, because ET is my native game. As for the actual article; I couldn't enjoy it, you didn't say anything, and you drew rather abstract conclusions without evidence. 'Unlike other sports, e-sports is always adapting and changing.' Look up the definition of eSports then remind me again, how long Starcraft, FIFA, Counter Strike 1.6 and Warcraft III have been used in the professional circuit. Competitive gaming changes, eSports unfortunately doesn't. Even the recent inclusions, WoW, CoD4 and DotA haven't reached the same level simply because there isn't enough money to go round. Money is the main focus for everything, competitive gaming is expanding exponentially because its medium is the internet, and everything is generally free. Were you paid to write this article? If not, why not? Is it because you're not good enough (as a writer, I'll withhold my judgment), or is it because the standard is not to pay writers. Look at the Grubby incident in PPG's latest column, that would never happen if (substantial) money was involved. I couldn't care less if some Americans got at 3/4am in the morning and do it for free. Hosts should be paid, admins should be paid, and the matches shouldn't even been played on the Internet! Regarding gamers, the best gamers are skilled irrespective of the actual games. Going back to the Quakecon picture, Ferus (third from the left [looking up at the cheque]) is generally regarded as one of the best pla You've your Ferus's, toxjq, Stermy's, Fatal1ty's of the world, who were born to play and dominate games. Though I doubt if a pla Next to money is invested at ground level (admins, coverage, writers, organizers) for the actual people, events change location every year and games are swapped in and out. Once gaming is treated as a competitive platform rather than a marketing gimmick, eSports will progress. Though I don't know the full details for everyone, the big teams like MYM and SK could be doing a lot more regarding spreading their money around. There are loads more fundamental issues to deal with, but I'm tired and going to bed! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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(4 months ago)
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Flex-
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so the whoule point of your article was to ask questions and not even try to answer them?
Sup?
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(3 weeks ago)
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litepos
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the future iscoming
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