The hype around esports is fading as investors and sponsors dry up
This is only a problem because businesses are trying to prop up competitive scenes for arbitrary games from nothing, which is a silly way to go about this.<p>They&#x27;re games, people play them for fun. Let the competitive scene develop organically and <i>then</i> go in with investor money for better broadcast equipment and sponsors and shit and draft a team to compete in the <i>existing</i> competitive scene.<p>Trying to just create a competitive scene for random games out of thin air when players haven&#x27;t even shown they&#x27;re going to stick around for it is insane.<p>The default approach for any unproven competitive game should <i>at most</i> be &quot;hey we&#x27;re hosting an official tournament with a modest prize pool in the hope to drive adoption of our game, if it works we might do it again next year&quot; not &quot;we&#x27;re investing millions into regional teams and stadiums out of thin air like we&#x27;re bootstrapping the fucking NFL, and don&#x27;t you dare host your own tournaments.&quot;.