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Re:Most gamers prefer single-player games by dylan604 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:04PM (#41733173)
Because they are, at least some of them. E-sports has opportunity for making money in ways that some people are never going to have. There's also the entire ability of streaming and earning by doing that stuff. Game promoters paying out to have IAPs pushed as well.

All of this never existed in mine or your days when our parents just knew that video games would ruin us with no way of making money in them. Even the dream of becoming a game developer wasn't even a thing.

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Re:Most gamers prefer single-player games by spondylosaurus on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:11PM (#41733269)
You know those after-school math tutoring academies that pop up in American strip malls? One of those opened up near me, but instead of grilling your kids in calc or trig to improve their SAT scores, it's an "esports academy" for young hopefuls.
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Re:Most gamers prefer single-player games by nonameiguess on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:36PM (#41733528)
I think there's more going on culturally than just that. Regular sports got more competitive at a younger age, too, and there has always been the possibility of going pro and earning money from it, plus college scholarships.
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Re:Most gamers prefer single-player games by dylan604 on Thursday October 03, 2024 @03:02PM (#41733813)
That's just progression of the world. The first video game was a simple thing like Pong. Now, we have entire immersive 3D worlds. Someone/something is always the first, but those that come after will/can be bigger, better, faster. The first mass produced car was a Model-T, now we have Mustangs, GTXs, Porsches, blah blah.
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