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As someone who has watched the odd “eSport” (though I loathe the term) I find the severity of the negativity around it quite odd.
 
White Wolf said:
An e-sports... stadium? The fuck is that.

Not sure how much money there is in watching that 'live', 2k people aren't crowding around a computer or phone. Surely it will be on a big screen anyway which you can easily see from your TV feed at home. One of those interests which makes me feel very old, don't understand what appeals at all.
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No different to going to watch darts live to me.
 
Alan said:
As someone who has watched the odd “eSport” (though I loathe the term) I find the severity of the negativity around it quite odd.
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Aye the term 'eSports' definitely does it no favours, like it's an affront to actually physical excellence.

I think "Virgin geek fuckwads playing games because they're too scared to go outside and talk to girls" would be fairer marketing and probably make things a bit clearer for their target audience
 
I’ve been called a lot of things but “virgin geek fuckwad” may be the most accurate yet
 
Del Woppio said:
Aye the term 'eSports' definitely does it no favours, like it's an affront to actually physical excellence.

I think "Virgin geek fuckwads playing games because they're too scared to go outside and talk to girls" would be fairer marketing and probably make things a bit clearer for their target audience
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It's actually been rebranded as Esports for a while, at least in the UK and most of Europe. All Wolves channels are that way for example. Shows the issue of getting the naming wrong the first time that many still spell it that other way.
 
Alan said:
As someone who has watched the odd “eSport” (though I loathe the term) I find the severity of the negativity around it quite odd.
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It's that fear of the unknown isn't it? I don't know for sure, but I'd wager most of the regular posters on this forum are over 30 years old. eSports is very much a younger generational thing - and it's absolutely massive. But I suspect there's a lot of negativity around it because a lot of us just "don't get it". I certainly don't see the appeal of watching other people play games when I can just play them myself - but then you look at the likes of KSI that started out making YouTube videos of himself creating silly looking fifa career mode players & pissing himself laughing to the point he wakes his mum up in the room next door - who is now a billionaire, and that speaks volumes.

Essentially for us middle aged/older fans, we don't care about eSports - we just want our club to be successful and to sign good football players.
 
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