What if I SERIOUSLY hate it to split up my games library between a couple of different services? Imo the Steam library is the greatest thing ever if you are a game collector, all your games are in one place and just one click/download away. If you don't mind about it, hey, just buy whereever you want ...

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Steam instead rolled out a way to let users sell "used" digital games.

During the black friday sale. Tales of xillia was 20$ and my friend wanted to buy it, they offered him the disc and put it in a case and wanted to sell it new, since the disc was 'new'. We were like its been opened, the whole point of new is new sealed case, new manual, and new disc. Anything other than that is used.

Worse, they're now ahead of brick and morter stores.

seems too much work for games priced barely 10 dollars.

Important things to note from the link, from the developers:

Skullgirls is pretty much one of the best fighting games of this gen

Their only source of income outside of tournaments is streaming. I know if I were in the player's shoes and I've been playing league for at least 5-7 hours straight now, I'd want to play something else. Now i can't stream it because of these rules. If you've watched any of the live streams you'll see people playing…

Comment invalidated when you asserted that chess is not a sport. Tell that to all the reputable tournaments and chess grand masters out there. Hell, chess has met the requirements to be a sport far longer and more closely than some of our modern sports.

The sport metaphor is becoming more and more apt. Why?

So... thats like banning soccer players from playing basketball, right? I dont see how playing Dota2, or WoW makes them less "professional"

Riot!

They pay the LCS players a salary, so it's really a condition of employment.

Riot's metaphor seems to fall apart when you realize that they are, somehow, considering themselves to be both the NFL and the NFL's sponsors. If Riot is the giving out the sponsorships then they would be in the right here, but that isn't the case, right? They're just the ones running the tournament.

"Monday Night Combat"

"real, legitimate athletes." aren't contractually obligated to not be seen playing other games. Any tournament with that sort of entrance barrier isn't a competition, it's a paid PR event.

So, how long until these players form an e-Sports players union to help negotiate better terms on contracts like this? Or is there already such a thing for some players?

And Valve announcement that players are free to stream whatever the hell they want "just because" in:

I guess I can understand DOTA 2, but uh... Fat Princess?