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“Sportification” Will Destroy Competitive Gaming

"In a culture that's poised between finding its own identity and being subsumed by the movie and comic book geekdom, there's a third outcome for games: That it becomes co-opted by broadcasters keen to market, package and brand gaming exactly like pay-per-view sports events." says CalmDownTom

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-Gespenst-3935d ago

Yeah, we're already seeing the effects of this with how toxic and confrontational multiplayer communities are becoming. The competitiveness within videogames has been introduced to money in a world wherein money has come to rule everything.

League of Legends and Starcraft are at the forefront of this. It's just despicable.

Gnarles3935d ago (Edited 3935d ago )

What is despicable? I have not seen an LCS match with any toxicity. Any players who have been caught being toxic on stream during practices have been punished.

If you are talking about the community as a whole then fair enough but it has little to do with eSports using the same model as traditional sports which is what the article is about.

Dover83935d ago

What I have never understood is how it is not Sports based games such as FIFA, NFL or NHL that have ended up as "ESPORTS". But I guess then they'd have to call it "EA ESPORTS"

GABRIEL10303935d ago

If you want to practice an sport and shooting at the same time, then you must go to the army.

FanboyCrusher3935d ago

The whole sport integration into gaming is just awkward, it just doesn't fit. Watching great MLG games of Halo 3 back in the day was great. Now you can't watch anything without it being "cod casted" and it's painful to listen to. They make it sound as if every detail needs to be announced and we just don't need that. Competitive gaming has lost it's soul, it was much better 4 years ago, now money has a death grip on it, and lets anything with an audience in. Even games like Call of Duty somehow have "competitive" leagues, which is outright ridiculous. If things go back to the way they were, I'll be happy. This new turn for competitive gaming isn't fun to watch, listen to, or even be apart of.

adorie3935d ago

Money has tainted nearly everything good about gaming.

FanboyCrusher3934d ago

What hasn't been tainted at this point? Even development budgets have be bloated ten fold for zero reason. Honestly losing hope in a lot of the games industry, it needs to crash again. That way all of the developers that put passion in their games will be able to thrive, while the EA's and Activision style companies go bankrupt.

russy913934d ago

i like where halo 4 sits right now i was dropped from mlg so along comes agl a small town set up running it they took input from the community go ex pros in to cast and this year have went from 16 teams showing up to 64 on average for 4v4
the casters and agl itself had a lot to do with the push to make the halo 4 updates to make the game more competitive because the fans would just not let it die. now we have a lot of old pros from 2/3 coming back to play and its not for the money its for the glory as AGl only has a prize pool of 10K compared to cod and MLG nothing

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5 Of The Best Narrative Twists In Video Games

GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds

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Rebel_Scum16h ago

With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?

Not clicking on your article otherwise.

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The 5 best video game adaptations of popular board games

Discover our top video game adaptations of popular board games, from Bloodbowl to Wingspan & get your board game friends into video games!

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EKWB reportedly plagued with financial disarray many gaming pc's left without parts

EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.

EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.

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just_looken4d ago (Edited 4d ago )

Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.

This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.

SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space

Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Giblet_Head2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.