Absolute morons.
I look forward to someone livestreaming the games pretending to be a player.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
tickets for sale to watch people play video games?
feel high and tripping just looking at the news these days
Welp have fun with that, Capcom. Not even complete morons would spend money for that
famous last words, hope im wrong though lol
Goodluck with that. Hope it works out.
I mean it won’t, for sure it wont, but we can hope.
