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Jeremy W
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Yep. It feels a whole other game just kicked the (much superior) game to the curb after a few hours

As I like to call the game: Mayans vs. the Internet 2012

E-Sports: “We want to be treated as legitimate sports, like any other!”
Sports: “Well, a good place to start would be to institude codes of conduct.”
E-Sports: “That’s crazy talk! Teams can just police themselves!”
Sports: “...uh huh.”

There’s three things that could be going on.

eSports and online culture tends to be quite insular by its nature, it attracts particular kinds of people and presents them with a forum where they largely don’t have to suffer consequence for hurtful action as they would in other settings, as well as generating a kind of echo-chamber of like-minded people to play