Is the World Ready For Televised Video Games?
There’s always a spot for televising the things people do, like sports and animal shows, house building and home-wrecking, etc. But video games in mainstream television? There are still people who believe video games to be synonymous with the root of all homicidal rage, but a little controversy is good for publicity, right? Besides, video games influencing violent outbursts tend to be exceptions an not norms. The most a violent game can do is desensitize people to blood and gore and other kinds of violence. Nothing that mass media has not already been doing.
Millions of people all over the world play video games in their spare time.The question is, would they be willing to watch it on TV with the same fervor that others have when watching the sports channels? There are plenty of people who go to video game tournaments for the same reason; watching a televised game is oh so very convenient. Traveling to a tournament can be a hassle.
It would be boring. To a number of people maybe, just like there are people who would rather play baseball than watch it on television or the fact that watching World Series Poker tournaments (who wants to watch people playing cards?) has grown into a viable niche entertainment business. There is no doubt that there would be fans of the idea, as there is always something incredibly cool about watching a great player own the screen.
There has been talk about the fact that televising video games would lower the quality of television, bringing more violence and mass media corruption into the regular citizen’s living room. Wouldn’t watching a zerg rush being decimated by a skilled knight character be loads better than watching two grown men go half kill each other on stage for money? In fact, when it comes to violence, the latter is leaps and bounds ahead when talking of a better chance to be driving a person to punch another out of anger than the former would have in creating another Hitler.
If talking about how watching such things and educational concerns, I assure you that we’ve come a very long way from the ‘your bases are all belong to me’ fiasco (the likes of which I blame on non-English-speaking people using online grammar check solutions rather than hiring good translators) and turn your attention to the other mindless entertainment options that abound on the tube before talk of televising video games was even a twinkle in the cable network executive’s eye.
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