Comments on: Video games: the new global spectator sport http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/the-internaut/videogames-the-new-spectator-sport/ Political, Cultural and Literary life of New Zealand Sun, 19 May 2013 08:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: JVK http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/the-internaut/videogames-the-new-spectator-sport/comment-page-1/#comment-1289 JVK Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:34:14 +0000 http://www.listener.co.nz/?p=84782#comment-1289 For those wondering why on earth people are offering $5 million in prize money for video games: the peak number of concurrent viewers watching that tournament online was over 1.1 million. That's a massive audience, especially considering the tournament took place over several weeks, with a Best of 3 series taking as long as 2 hours. I personally love League of Legends, and I'm not alone in that opinion - over 32 million people play the game, which has become the world's most played video game. The image chosen for this article by the author is one of the more grotesque images within the game, so don't judge it solely by that - it truly has enormous market appeal, and amongst both genders too. My girlfriend was intrigued enough to give it a try, and now plays several games with me every week.<span class="safe-comments-report-link">Wrong usage of print_flagging_link().</span> For those wondering why on earth people are offering $5 million in prize money for video games: the peak number of concurrent viewers watching that tournament online was over 1.1 million. That’s a massive audience, especially considering the tournament took place over several weeks, with a Best of 3 series taking as long as 2 hours.

I personally love League of Legends, and I’m not alone in that opinion – over 32 million people play the game, which has become the world’s most played video game. The image chosen for this article by the author is one of the more grotesque images within the game, so don’t judge it solely by that – it truly has enormous market appeal, and amongst both genders too. My girlfriend was intrigued enough to give it a try, and now plays several games with me every week.Wrong usage of print_flagging_link().

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