E-sports today

[CIN_47]

Hello,

Interested to hear your opinion about esports that continues to grow in size and popularity. At the moment the scene will adopt a similar infrastructure to traditional sports. Also organizations will incorporate coaching practices from traditional sports. Even esports broadcasts will exceed the level of traditional sports broadcasts and may even eventually overtake some of those sports broadcasts in terms of viewership. Esports is already on a steady course to passing the billion dollar revenue mark by 2018, according to SuperData Research.

So, will esports overtake real sports?

[JSmooth]

This a bit old but I like the question, it is very applicable to RS players with the Deadman attempts. Hopefully this gets the ball rolling for some other people's opinions to be voiced...

Overtake sports? Doubtful. There's vastly more people who play real sports than online ones. Will esports continue to become more and more popular? Probably. If you look at the sudden increase in popularity of Fortnite, this shows this trend. It is essentially just H1Z1 but somehow in the last year this style of game has become very popular and a whole esport has come out of it. Obviously osrs has been trying to make their own esport (with questionable success) but that nonetheless shows the trend towards making this a bigger market.

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