Re:The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponso...
by kibwen on Monday December 12, 2022 @09:28PM
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I think the biggest argument against the idea of CS becoming a household sport like football is the fact that, today, nobody bothers to watch competitive paintball. The fact that it's a simulation means it can do things you can't do in real life, sure, but it also means that it's harder to care about what's actually happening. In a real sport, you watch the players. In an esport, you watch avatars. People don't empathize with avatars nearly as much as they do with flesh-and-blood humans, at least not today.
Re:The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponso...
by user_named on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:53PM
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What? CSGO is the most watched esport in the world. Paintball analogy, what?
In regular sports people can rely on their intuition to know what can and can't happen, to some degree. No football player is going to start flashing yellow while taking off down the field. A lot of video games are packed to the brim with custom physics and mechanics. No solid intuition, you really just have to learn them.
CS benefits from more or less functioning exactly how even a 75 year old lady would expect it to. A sniper is a sniper. A pistol a pistol. An assault rifle is an assault rifle. Bullets kill quick, and bombs go boom.