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Benjamin Dorsey
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It seems like you want similar ideas of sportsmanship with eSports if you want people to consider them sports.
There's a difference in telling your close friend or S/O to go do certain activities, or telling someone who cannot hear you on the other team, and playing a game at the actual League level.
There's a reason why the family game of tackle (American) football on Thanksgiving is a lot faster and easier to play than the same affair with the Detroit Lions.
The other issue is that when you have backyard football game, you know full and well it's simply a game in a backyard. It looks nothing like an NFL stadium, hell, it doesn't look like a high school stadium. There are no Refs, no concession stands, no chains, no pylons, and likely no markings on the "field." The differences between this and a formal game of football on any level are pretty clear.
Whereas with Overwatch League, well, it's simply the game with cosmetic changes, adding the ability to see a top-down map, and of course adding the ability to see any player's first-person view on demand. (along with a bumped up Spectate graphics package.) The game is changed slightly for TV, but, it's still the same game.
If eSports is going to be just "Sports," we have to not get taken in by the cosmetic similarities between Pro Sport level play and regular civilian play. I feel like some of that is happening with xQc.
There's a difference in telling your close friend or S/O to go do certain activities, or telling someone who cannot hear you on the other team, and playing a game at the actual League level.
There's a reason why the family game of tackle (American) football on Thanksgiving is a lot faster and easier to play than the same affair with the Detroit Lions.
The other issue is that when you have backyard football game, you know full and well it's simply a game in a backyard. It looks nothing like an NFL stadium, hell, it doesn't look like a high school stadium. There are no Refs, no concession stands, no chains, no pylons, and likely no markings on the "field." The differences between this and a formal game of football on any level are pretty clear.
Whereas with Overwatch League, well, it's simply the game with cosmetic changes, adding the ability to see a top-down map, and of course adding the ability to see any player's first-person view on demand. (along with a bumped up Spectate graphics package.) The game is changed slightly for TV, but, it's still the same game.
If eSports is going to be just "Sports," we have to not get taken in by the cosmetic similarities between Pro Sport level play and regular civilian play. I feel like some of that is happening with xQc.
