Esports- a discussion.

[D.Va]

I think they sort of "ruin" gaming. As long as they stay in certain genres I suppose it's fine, but it creates an atmosphere to those games that makes them completely unpenetrable for me, and I know several others. An atmosphere that is all about winning the game and being as perfect a player as possible. I mostly game to relax, so a competitive game utterly ruins the point of picking up a controller or double clicking the short cut for me.

Well if a game can get competitive, it will become competitive in some way.

Though a lot of the most popular Esports are games that can be played strictly casually, such as Dota and CS.

There's also usually an abundance of resources for newer players to learn both the game and the scene. You don't have to get into the scene but if you want to there's stuff to help with that.