ESports are becoming something really big with professional video gaming constantly growing. Professional organizations mean greater competitions with media coverage that can go beyond the tournaments’ live streaming and more money. There are arguments about eSports being real sports but the International Olympic Committee already started looking into their possible recognition. Don’t expect to watch eSports at the next Olympic Games but you can be sure that you’ll hear about them more and more. If you’re into gaming and you’re motivated enough, you might consider them as a possible line of work.
Video game competitions have been growing through the decades thanks to technological progress that offered games that are more realistic and sophisticated with more possibilities of network games. Contents always existed but in the early years fights between players were limited to the single video game possibilities. The growth of the Internet during the 1990s enabled the development of multiplayer games that took advantage of network connections changing gaming forever. The evolution of online competitions led to the creation of professional organizations that run eSports.
The infographic at the bottom shows how much eSports have grown and a projection into the next years. Passion is great and it’s crucial to any success connected to gaming but only following the money you can appreciate that eSports have become important and a real career choice.
It’s a growing industry – yes, industry! – and today you can make comparisons to classic sports in terms of revenue, prize money and audience. We’re talking about comparisons with the NFL Super Bowl, Wimbledon or UEFA Champions League, classic events followed by millions of fans and today so are eSports big events.
In the UK, some traditional sport clubs started investing in eSports and that led to the creation of the ePremier League. There are clubs with a long tradition so their decision to embrace eSports is a big deal. Germany is another country with a long football tradition that recently extended to eSports, more evidence that gaming is reaching new levels.
There are a number of ways to be part of the growing eSports world, depending on your degree of interest. You can go from being a spectator out of curiosity to being a professional gamer with various choices between those two extremes. Most choices are made by people who just want to have fun with video games, not to make money, exactly like in classic sports only a small part of the people involved in them are professionals.
There’s a lot of room to make eSports better and not only with technological advancements. For example, gaming is still a world with a predominance of men but a better balance among genders would bring an improvement.
If you want to be active in eSports, either for fun or for money, you have to choose your games and the hardware to play them. Today there are a lot of possibilities and technological progress made a lot of them quite cheap. If you want to know more about gaming, eSports and their growth as seen in the infographic you can find a lot of information here. Have fun!
eSports – an Infographic by hotukdeals
