How do you know?

Too bad they are already a sport. The US gov't and others issue athletic visas to esports players. So you can be the person (or more likely you're just here trolling) with the mentality of an old man who hates change but some of us are able to think abstractly and have no issue with the term sport and the term esports meaning similar yet different things.

esports are unlikely to ever compete with physical sports. It'll get bigger obviously, but they target different audiences and always will. One targets keyboard nerds, the other targets ball nerds.

As for the typical semantic garbage of what the word sport means, here's a fun little linguistics fact for you. Words mean what we make them mean. The first definition of a word from 700 years ago is irrelevant and is no constraint on what it means today or what it means among different demographics of people. Not to mention video games didn't exist 700 years ago.

Originally posted by 12pk-P:

real sweat, and blood.

Lol'd.

I'm goin' for number one in Wii Sports!

...and yet they already are.

Amen.

Ironic considering the fact that any so called "Real" sport is just as silly of a game as a Video game. Except they are mainstream, are based mostly in the physical realm instead of the dexterous and accepted just because people are ignorant. (And because $$$$ )


It takes just as much effort, time, patience and practice to get to that level of skill in a video game as in any real world game.


They are just games. Plain and simple.

If video games weren't competitive and couldn't be their own sport. Anyone could load up Counter Strike and compete on the same level as a pro instantaneously without ever playing the game before.

Except that's not true. Just as is the same of any real world sport.

sochi pls

Originally posted by BONKERS:

Ironic considering the fact that any so called "Real" sport is just as silly of a game as a Video game. Except they are mainstream, are based mostly in the physical realm instead of the dexterous and accepted just because people are ignorant. (And because $$$$ )


It takes just as much effort, time, patience and practice to get to that level of skill in a video game as in any real world game.


They are just games. Plain and simple.

If video games weren't competitive and couldn't be their own sport. Anyone could load up Counter Strike and compete on the same level as a pro instantaneously without ever playing the game before.

Except that's not true. Just as is the same of any real world sport.

Amen to that.

Originally posted by 12pk-P:

Never can video games compete with real sweat, and blood.

What are you talking about? Sports has nothing to do with sweat and blood.

Examples of other sports: Bowling, darts, chess, poker, fishing, golf. Americans even have eating as a sport....go figgure.

A sport is about competition agaist others.

When people talk about racing or whatever it´s always "motorsports", and IMO it´s equally fine and great to just talk about e-sports when it comes to videogames. Trying to get them accepted under just "sports" in general language will just open up this same argument over and over again for decades to come and for no good reason.

Originally posted by BasenjiMaster:

Originally posted by 12pk-P:

Never can video games compete with real sweat, and blood.

Americans even have eating as a sport....go figgure.

Yes, cause they are the ONLY ones with that as a sport... "Go figgure"

so many dumb people trying to sound smart in this hub

Too bad it's already a sport, Your opinion doesn't matter