Sports are a massive phenomena, to say the least, and esports definitely seems to want to try to become similar, but so far…I think it may be fair to say it’s struggling at that, outside of maybe some specific games and countries (…Is StarCraft still a thing in South Korea?).
Do you think that might eventually change, and if so what might contribute to it being alongside regular sports in terms of conversations & attention?
Maybe, but I think the kind of stuff that we have now which is all about pushing skins and other cosmetics on people means that those games will remain firmly in the category of trendy rather than timeless and that will mean that any given game probably won’t be very long lived. I was amazed at how quickly Overwatch 2 shot itself in the foot for instance. Original Overwatch was incredible and I could have played it for 20 years or more. I gave up on OW2 after a week or so and stopped thinking about it.