it will never be main stream popular
halo out sold th eeffing avengers this year
video games are already main stream popular
I meant to say competitive video gaming.
Lol @ eSports being this middle man to legitimize a game as competitive
Don’t tell me their heads are that far up their own asses now. ALL their games were competitive BEFORE they entered their line ups.
No, you clearly said “need eSports” and “needs to be more movement in eSports to help those games grow”
Even in your example was they would be begging eSports to adapt (think you meant adopt) the game for promotion and support if they released their first SF today.
You make it sound like extortion.
You’re putting unwarranted importance upon “eSports”. The entire thing is just figuring out a ton people want to watch these people play this game and there’s businesses willing to give us money if we advertise their products during these games.
I see a few problems with this IPL project.
-Streaming is obviously a major issue. People like the hype, smack talk and what have you. I watched the IPL SFxT exhibiton and it was really bad, others seemed to share my opinion.
-What is the incentive for people to come to these events in the first place? Top players will obviously be invited and will compete for the prize money but the IPL setups aren’t really made for casual gaming. Fighting game players are players first.
My negative prediction :
In the end it will be a bunch of good players competing against one another. There will be almost no one to cheer them, because most people at IPL events think fighting games are just about random button mashing and they came to see real games. Then you have the cleaned up commentary and people will probably wonder why they are even watching the stream, because playing with friends is more fun in comparison.
give it time
Combofiend is laughing at this thread.
Because he has a real job.
“I just want Justin Wong to make a living-”
-playing a game he actually likes
Hint: That game has Sentinel in it.
A real job in eSports. Just like Haunts.
Which isn’t Esports, but with Capcom.
There is a difference.
Except Capcom embraces eSports. and deep down, you don’t want to admit it. But it’s okay. Call it whatever you want. I ain’t even mad. It happened, and that’s proof enough. Esports just isn’t tournament organizers kid. CEO is eSports if that’s a matter. EVO is eSports if that’s it. It’s a whole god damn ecosystem of players, organizers, sponsors, developers and all that shit. You need everything for it to work. You’ll learn though. It takes times.
Of course they embraces esport, but the point is that Combofiend isn’t living off Esport money he is living off with Capcom’s money. Capcom is not a esport company, but they do however support the idea.
Call it however you want to see it. His role in the company is still the role they gave him. Ain’t no arguing that, and the fact he was at Capcom’s first big tournament they’ve done. Just embrace it man, don’t be scared. 
EVO = competitive gaming, not eSports. The “eSports” label implies many more things, including the whole early 2000s FPS + StarCraft roots, etc. as well as a distinct culture. Competitive gaming would be a more general term that doesn’t carry all that baggage.
I congratulate the guy but considering that Inafune and Seth left in the same year and that really it’s taken Capcom a while to own up to their own stupidity / bullshit, let alone 10 years for them to bother acknowledging ‘us’ so we can be happy slappy professional gamers (lol), I’m more worried about where any of that is going to lead. Five years ago I would have been rather jealous, now I just hope it’s enough of a bullet point on their resume to get them somewhere better.
I swear to Guap Axislegend is on dat Esports payroll.
You were arguing “players” making a career “playing competitively”.
Now you’ve changed it to getting a salaried job at Capcom being the same as the above? In all likelihood, they’ve gotten jobs as community managers and special advisors, like Seth was. They’re not living off of competitive gaming that you’ve so vehemently argued about in the beginning of this thread. They don’t have to answer to sponsors or win prize money to sustain.
Combofiend was at the SECOND big tournament as a player. The first was 1998, Capcom hosted a national in Japan and the US and pit the champions vs each other (the legendary Daigo vs Valle Alpha 3 match).
At the end of the day, to me, not to you, but to me… all these guys are playing video games for money. You can call it competitive gaming, eSports, professional gaming, hardcore gaming, money matches…whatever title you want. The only difference between a FGC event and a “eSports” event is the money put in and the way it’s run. Down that pipeline, which ever way you wish to navigate it, it all ends up at their being one top dog who wins the prize and is the best at that game. It takes a team to make that happen. The developer, the caster, the tournament organizer, people getting sponsors and people setting up equipment and the stream. There isn’t anything you can say that can change my mind with that, because it just is what it is, sir. I’m not on no payroll, but if being the only guy who has this opinion here makes me that, I’m fine with that lol
Inafune left last year, Seth only left this year.
Then you fail to understand the differences between the history and the culture of both that have been the point of contention for years. From the simple fact that we tend to be louder, to the fact that it’s the norm for them to treat their top players as stars, whereas that has only been a recent thing in the FGC where usually, being a top player simply meant being a target.