As a experienced game analyst, I am now sure that E Sports are now one of the factions in the industry that have retarded gaming's growth.
Firstly let me start off with one simple fact, casuals only like cool stuff. Look at E sports, it's a bunch of lonely nerds grouping together to play games and cheer each other's miserable lives on. It is nothing more than a upgraded Dungeons and Dragons meetup. Now if a hot girl, let's a 10/10 you meet at the bar asks if you play any sports and you go. "Yeah, I play E Sports LAWL!!!" You have just cockblocked yourself from getting laid. Any sane person with a social life will not take E' Sports seriously. A minor league baseball player can probably beat up a Counter-Strike team by himself. If E Sports was to go on, it will just make gaming even more less hip, if it becomes popular then that's a disaster for the industry altogether, we are sure to lose all the casual gamers.
Now you might be thinking, South Korea says otherwise. Wrong, I have lived in South Korea for many years and I can guarantee you the old legendary Boxer is only merely idolized by some fat chicks and no life men. Even the newer players like Flash and Jaedong do not garner much support. With the leagues splitting now due to the Starcraft 2 and Brood Wars, E Sports in South Korea will only weaken. If you ask any cool kid at school in Korea who their sporting hero is, then they will most likely reply Park Ji Sung or Lee Chung Yong, Korean footballers, only the fat kid eating too much Bulgogi will say Jaedong.
Look at MLG and how many years it has been going. It has tried many different formats yet all of them have failed, never garnering more than a few thousand people. Even county cricket has more spectators than this so called 'sport'...even the Welsh Premier League. This just shows that E-Sports, despite fifteen years of growth is still a mere Bellsprout, it will never become that all endearing Victreebell that will poison the minds of casuals.
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Now onto the PC gaming part. E Sports are mainly played on PCs, this is because PC gaming takes the most 'skill' (reflexes and mental thinking). If PC gaming was eradicated then the evil troll that is E Sports will not be able to live on to try and destroy the popular image of gaming formed by the hardwork of Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo.
If PCs altogether did not exist, not only will there be less pirated games since consumers will have no way of pirating games but it will allow the superior developers such as Bioware, Activision and etcetra to mainly focus on the console platforms. The next Fallout, Call of Duty and Battlefield will be even more optimized, have more achievements and trophies, more content and better graphics. This is because they won't ahve to spend hundreds of hours porting it and testing it on the billions of variations of PC hardware that exists!
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Thank you for reading.
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