Yeah just like all the smart people necro'd the 'I am making an airplane thread' in 1915 after ridiciculing the fools talking about it 10 years before. Seriously how incredibly shortsighted do you have to be to ridicule this idea when people in South-Korea literally watch StarCraft games in the pub around the corner already. You should really review your concepts about entertainment, whatever unpassable difference you see between football, baseball, darts, chess and then StarCraft, it doesn't really exist.
Because they do it for easily over 10 years already and in Europe there is not even a tendency for it to happen any time soon...
Not to mention that real sports have a way higher social component that keeps a lot of people active even in older ages. That is simply not the case with games.
When you start working, building a house, marriage and children, you probably won't play any more alone in front of your PC but you might still go once a week to play with your friends on a football field and have 2-12 beers with them afterwards.
I know dozens of buddies who simply stopped playing games cuz "mature real life" and that is still the common thing to happen.
How many people in this forum actually have family? 3? Maybe 6? The rest of us is probably at school/uni/game dev (
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And how many of those who have actual family still play this actively? 1?
There is a clear tendency that games are limited to a certain age frame and personal living situation. Whenever the personal time gets cut short, first thing to go is playing games cuz most people consider the other stuff more important.+
Not to mention that Asia is completely different cultural circle that can't be applied to Europe as easily as "Look, they do it too! We gonna be doing the same!"
Besides, OP says "Soon bigger...". All I say is "Nope, not any time soon." I simply do not believe that it's going to happen in Europe.
