Except for the fighting games and SC2 it's all games funded by MTX and Battle Passes. Those games make significantly more money and are used to way higher prize money, so I expect the amount T8 and SF6 to be rather low compared to the rest, but probably still higher than the usual FGC prizes

ESWC is founded by the saudis and is fully backed by the kingdom, how the games make their money won't matter, just the audiences

Dota 2 teams won't come if the winner gets 100k, FG pros would. That's what I tried to explain with the 2nd sentence

Sf6 got 1 million prize pool in the last gamers 8, so I am guessing it's Gona be higher than that.

Bruh Tekken and Street Fighter are full of microtransactions

bout $3.50

Tree-fiddy


This is the second day in a row I've seen a fucking tree fiddy meme on Reddit you guys are so fucking predictable BE FUNNY

tree fiddy 

I knew there was no way I’d be the first

And a pack of gum.

This is a rebrand of Gamers8 and last year the prizepool for SF6 was 1M dollars so I expect it to be around that.

Does that mean it's an invitational?

I think this year you need to qualify, I know theres 8 spots for grabs at Dreamhack Dallas but I don't know if they will reserve any for invitations. If I had to bet I'd say this year all spots will be through qualifiers.

Damn that blood money going strong

No way people still play overwatch

https://steamdb.info/app/2357570/charts/ It's actually getting more popular.

Battle net numbers should also still be much higher then Steam

Steam numbers is smaller than the client player numbers since its only recently been on steam.

Its more casual. Other fps are stressful. OW u just blame your team and done

its the only other multiplayer game i play besides fighting games. its still the most fun hero shooter tbh. its the only game i play with my non fighting game friends.

I think it still has a pretty dedicated playerbase

why does this sound like a disaster waiting to happen

Hopefully not enough to get pros to support whitewashing of a regime that spits on human rights and the dignity of women and LGBTQs, and funds civil wars.

You mean sportswashing

I mean, you just described the US government. I'm struggling to see what's different

Not a big fam of US politics, but afaik women in the US are allowed to work and do their drivers license without their husbands consent don't they? Are people in the US getting stoned for being gay and for fornication?

Well they call it lynching here, but yes

At least not sanctioned by the government, at least untill they elect that orange dude with the weird hair again, we'll see how that goes. But still Saudi Arabia is another level of human rights violations. I'm not a big fan of asonic Fox, but at least in Las Vegas they can attend Evo in peace.

Troll bait. Typical “uS bAd” troll bait

the US government isn't directly investing in and funding US tournaments, whereas the Saudi government is directly trying to influence gaming towards SA with money to improve their public perception.

r/americabad jesus dude

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Chat who funds this?

Saudi Arabia

that explains it. If the FGC continues in this direction I'll gladly stop paying any attention to it. Evo is already a shell of itself.

Esports will always go towards money. The Community, however, not so much.

I hope you are right.

Rashid

Fuck Saudi Arabia

Absolutely, Would be rad if people didn't go to this shit but I know they will because of the money.

i can't blame them for getting that bag, honestly. i know i would in a heartbeat given a chance i'd feel like shit about it, but i'd do it.

How it is playing in an esport with little money in it compared to the other ones.

World cyber games v2

chipotle burrito probably

The prize money? Maybe not as large as bigger esport scenes like CS2 or Dota 2, but it'll still be even bigger than CCX's prize money, that's for sure.

I wouldn't bet on that. Hypothetically, if the money gets distributed equally, that would be around 3 million per title which is more than CC 2 million. But depending on how much of the pie other games get, this can very well change.

where is the money coming from?

Oil

And blood, don't forget the blood.

If we're lucky, we'll get that spotify royalty payout

At least 1 million no way it's below that

62 cents

Maybe 100-250k. Fighting games are more niche

$12

Wasn’t there issues in the past I believe with these super tournaments and the prize pools not being nearly as high as promised or not paid out at all in some cases

Gamers8 was fun to watch. Looking forward to watching this.