Blizzard to pay Pro Overwatch players a salary and benefits!?!?!
I used to be a huge fan of professional sports here in America but over the last 3 years I have stopped watching and supporting any of them as it just seems to be a corrupted system for those who have corporate money. In America, to be able to watch an professional regular season NFL game in person and take a family will easily cost more than a $1,000 once you factor the tickets, parking, concessions, and other side costs of attending a game (the Super Bowl can be $10,000 plus if your lucky for crap seats) and our salaries are not going up here if anything they are decreasing just merely due to inflation.
To me, this is unsustainable and the end will come soon to professional sports as we know it in America, especially now with studies coming out about the impacts of CTE link. At first my sons mom was against my son playing American football but I wanted him to play since he is a big kid to now my opinion is no way in hell will I allow him to play since overzealous coaches and admirations will not care about the kids health but overall game attendance.
Now I see that Blizzard is starting to pay their pro players, as well as benefits, and it made me realize that eSports will eventually come up and take a lot of the professional sports fire and passion soon but without the fear of concussion (maybe a crypto will rise to pay gamers and if so, I am in big time). Yes, a gamer can be affected by the constant sitting and staring at a TV but that can be remedied with a balance of fitness, exercise, and diet but you can’t do that with a concussion.
Either way, I just wanted to put out there a perspective of a former hardcore American football sports fan but father of a 14 year boy who I want to have his sons energy be put in a productive and structured way but realize that the my passion of football may no longer be the way. Times are always changing thus we must adapt to times and not be afraid of it.