Why aren't Fighting games the pinnacle of Esports?

>>385528804

because fighting games cannot into esports due to the player base itself, not to mention it will be 99% Street Fighter because it is the only fighter most people care about.

>>385528804
It is to esports like how esports are to real sports

Because games that actually require skill are niche.

>>385529045
Sadly this seems to be the case. There's a lot of fuckwads out there who seem to think that Street Fighter is the only fighting game in existence just because it's the easiest to play.

>>385528804
sauce pls

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>>385529045
>due to the player base itself
what do you mean, too short in terms of numbers compared to other genres?

>>385528804
Too fast for most laypeople to follow what's going on, relatively inflexible meta so people can't follow changes.

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>>385529260
youtube.com/watch?v=y1SfZEX8MA0

>>385529206
I do agree. I was like that until i got to SFV, hated it and started playing GGXrd and Tekken7.

>>385529361
I agree with too fast, but it's easier to see player skill than, let's say, mobas. And mobas are huge.

Also, if the game is receiving patches the meta is in costant shift, just look at SFV season 1 (chun-li, nash and ryu being good) and season 2 (they are weak as fuck and rushdown characters took the throne.)

>>385528804
Because the FGC is full of autists posing as gangsters.

>>385528804
The skill ceiling and floor are too high

>>385528804
Did he died?

>>385529942
That's a beautiful death if it's the case

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>>385529538

>>385529263

the crowds for current esports is completely different, much like how smash crowds are also just as different. Steam monsters love the shit that happens within the fgc and that does not particularly translate in esports. If you take that away it takes away from the interest, if you lose what makes the community what it is, then the product will not be as great.

Funnily enough though, in Japan and Korea it would work better because over the years they have had Tougeki and Tekken Crash, well known and relatively well ran events. This is where it really needs to be; less of the banter and higher quality games.

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>>385529942
Definitely yes

>>385530447
we had SFV Crash too but i don't know if it did well, also Evo japan next year means the scene is probably growing there.

>>385528804
hot

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>>385528804
This is delicious

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>>385528804
>American broadcasting company is the only one in the world beta enough to try to censor a videogame stream because videogame ass