Written by: Darshan Mainali - 22007, Grade XII
Posted on: 06 December, 2021
Esports is a massive multiplayer online gaming platform which has been growing at a very quick pace where professional and skilled players get to showcase their talents competitively. Similarly the esports market has had rapid growth. Although it is a remarkably new industry, it has a lot of potential to grow even much bigger. Many youths have been selecting esports as their career choice with new games advancing such as PUBG mobile, COD mobile and many more. There are many esports teams such as Team OG, Team Secret, Team Liquid who scout established players and enroll them to their teams. There are many good players who do not get selected by good teams but that does not mean that their career has been ruinous. They can still stream their desired games on platforms such as Twitch, Facebook Gaming where they can present their talent to their viewers and earn a living. The viewers can give subscriptions to the streamers if they like the specific player which helps to increase the players popularity.
Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games ( MMORPG ) is a vast gaming genre which includes games such as Warcraft, DotA 2, League of Legends and many more. These games are quite different from mobile games such as PUBG and even difficult to master. It takes a lot of years and much more patience to understand the fundamentals and basics of these games. Since it takes a lot of years to learn and grasp just the fundamentals of these MMORPG games the prize pool is correspondingly high. The highest esports prize pool till recorded was of The International held by Dota 2, which had a prize pool of $40,018,195 USD. Team Spirit had won the recent International. Winning a single tournament can change the player's life completely but it is not as easy as it sounds. They have to go through a lot of difficult phases before getting victory.
There are various esports industries such as Valve, Riot Games e.t.c which develop games and help people expand their esports career. It is not compulsory that people have to play competitively every time as some people play video games just for fun or to release stress. There are options such as Unranked where players can play the games without playing competitively and just try new stuff or lose without getting their rank demoted.
Esports, when compared to the traditional sport or games, has been one of the most compatible sports and has been evolving with many AI features.
In this present status, due to Covid-19, many children, adolescents and adults have been forced to stay inside their homes which denies the indulgence of them getting involved in outdoor sports such as football, cricket, basketball and many other sports. Esports have been helping people release stress, relax and have fun during this dreadful period of time. Some people might even earn money through the games they play if they are pretty good at playing their game. So, esports can also be somehow categorized as a non zero sum game where one players’ victory is not necessarily another player's forfeiture.
