Do you watch e-sports? Do you think it will blow up in the US this year?

Answer 1

it's definitely gaining momentum right now, as far as starcraft 2 is concerned.

Answer 2

Given Starcraft 2's popularity, I doubt it. But e-sports has 'blown up' in the past, after the original Starcraft got old. I'd give it 2 to three golden years followed by another low.

Answer 3

Depends on how Blizzard deals with Starcraft 2.

From what I see on Korean sites, Starcraft is still having more players than Starcraft 2.

Besides Starcraft 2 is not complete yet. There are a few more games coming.

Answer 4

 Yes i watch e-sports.

 

Blow up to me means make it to television with real airtime and ads. And i dont think it will reach that point. Yes we are getting tens of thousands of people to tune in but the market is so small.

 

The amount you have to dumb down a strategy game like SC2 for mass appeal would make is a massively different game. I mean even things like Halo, MW2, etc all have the mass appeal, but that didnt make it on successful on TV either. 

 

SC2 is certainly expanding, and the NA market is certainly here but hit mainstream? It really cant happen.

Answer 5

No, I don't watch e-sports, I find it boring. I prefer to play the game myself. And also, no, I don't think it'll blow up in the US, I think it'll remain the same. Starcraft 2 may prove me wrong though, but we shall see.

Answer 6

I watch e-sports sometimes, but I really doubt it would 'blow up' anytime soon. That would require the mass public to understand a lot of basic game concepts, and them starting to learn the rules of, for example, Starcraft is quite improbable, in my opinion.

Answer 7

I have my doubts.  We'll certainly never see e-sports reach the level of actual sorting events, as far as viewership is concerned.  I guess the answer really depends on your definition of "blow up".

Answer 8

Would say

Starcraft 2

COD

Quake

and just quake <<< is free that why

Answer 9

The hopeful gamer in me says: YES!!! Someday e-sports will be bigger than football!

The realistic part of me says: I doubt it, the majority of people in the U.S think of gamers as acne-ridden fat kids who live in the darkness of their parent's basement, who are burned by the light of the sun. And, because of this stereotype I do not think that people will ever take video games as seriously as they would need to in order for e-sports to "blow up."

Answer 10

Leading up to the release of SCII, I watched and thoroughly enjoyed each one of those battle reports they posted online. Another thing you guys haven't really mentioned is the Madden Challenge. I remember this being pretty big for awhile back when G4 was actually a videogame station. However, I don't see these things actually becoming popular in the mainstream for a long long long time.

Answer 11

I don't think so, it'll still be a few years before the gaming generations are the right demographic for this kind of thing to explode

Answer 12

I don't,I prefer to play games or watch my friends play them as I can talk to them.Do I think e-sports will blow up?..I'd say some as gaming is becoming bigger and bigger.

Answer 13

Starcraft 2 is starting to explode in the Western scene. MLG is featuring it on the main stage, IGN Entertainment just recently started a tournament with a  huge prizepool, and some grassroots players started the NASL, also with a huge prizepool that rivals the main eSports competition in Korea.