I’m guessing pay-per-trailer is next.
I’m gonna miss-yah Ingrid.😭
Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it
Submitted 5 months ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 months ago
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 months ago
Capcom is 100% betting on their Japanese viewers, the west is just a “sad casualty”, so to speak. If this ends up working in their favor, expect this shit to expand to other companies and tournaments, just like pay2win did.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Goodluck with that. Hope it works out.
I mean it won’t, for sure it wont, but we can hope.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Welp have fun with that, Capcom. Not even complete morons would spend money for that
Lawnman23@lemmy.world 5 months ago
big_slap@lemmy.world 5 months ago
famous last words, hope im wrong though lol
tekato@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They know nobody is going to purchase the pay-per-view, but I guess they don’t care since the alternative is not getting any money anyways. Esports was never sustainable because fans refuse to spend money, so they rely on shady sponsorships from gambling sites and Saudi money.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kind of hard justifying a price tag to watch any person play a game IMO
I’m surprised sports are still as big as they are now that it isn’t one of the only source of communal entertainment anymore.
Danitos@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Esports was never sustainable
I feel like Dota 2’s The International goes against your claim. It was the esports tournament with highest prize pool several years in a row, and it was funded almost exclusively by Dota 2 players buying The Battle pass. Valve removed battle pass like 2 years ago, but it’s still ocupies top 1 up to top 7 esports tournaments with highest prize pool: www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments.
SolSerkonos@piefed.social 5 months ago
Rainbow Six Siege has had a pretty strong competitive scene for pretty much the entirety of it’s lifespan- it’s definitely fluctuated a bit in popularity, but every Invitational has had the same prize pool.
tekato@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A sustainable scene wouldn’t have dropped from a $40M prize pool to $4M. The issue is that the esports scene was not self funded, it was funded by a percentage of the base game economy.
The reduction in prize pool being related to the removal of battle pass shows that fans never cared about supporting the esports scene, they only wanted the battle pass for the skins or whatever it is that you get from it.
Even if the Dota 2 esports was sustainable, that would be one game out of dozens.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re charging for it because the Japanese audience will pay for it, and I guess they don’t want to handle it differently abroad. Fighting games, at least up to this point, have been sustainable in a way that the rest of e-sports have not. The rest of e-sports was predicated on future growth, and fighting games have only grown as fast as the money coming in, in general. (2XKO is putting out $50k in pot bonuses for a game that doesn’t look to be earning that much, and the Saudis now own SNK and treat Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting like they’re Call of Duty.)
simple@piefed.social 5 months ago
Japan’s attitude to e-sports is so bizarre. between this, Nintendo constantly shutting down fan tournaments, and other companies acting like e-sports don’t exist until it becomes big enough not to capitalize on..
How the fuck do they think it’s going to work if they keep gatekeeping the few people interested in esports?
verdantbanana@lemmy.world 5 months ago
tickets for sale to watch people play video games?
feel high and tripping just looking at the news these days
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 months ago
…but when it’s about watching millionaires play with a ball, then it’s fine.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Absolute morons.
I look forward to someone livestreaming the games pretending to be a player.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 months ago
Just drone-🏴☠️ the footage😆
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As one Reddit commenter put it: “I thought Capcom organised this circuit as a marketing tool for the game. Makes no sense to charge viewers to watch it. And esports is, unfortunately, still way too niche for that to be profitable.”
It’s shooting themselves in the foot, not their audience. Their audience has plenty of Street Fighter tournaments to watch.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I wouldn’t mind if the money went straight to the pockets of the players.