During this morning's ESPN Radio show The Herd, host Colin Cowherd slammed competitive gaming after his employer hosted a Heroes of the Storm competition the night earlier on ESPN 2. Many viewers took issue with ESPN for broadcasting the gaming programming, and Cowherd was right there with them.
There's a spark of life coming from Heroes of The Storm.
Enterprising modders have changed the face of video games forever. Some mods have even gone on to become fantastic fully-fledged titles.
Heroes of the Storm, while not seen as great in its infancy, had a lot to offer for the casual community. Let's talk about why you should give it a try, several years after its launch.
While big fan of games i agree on that ..games have no relation with sport
Cant be much worse than watching 6 hours of coverage for the Kentucky Derby, its a 2 minute race!
ESPN covers Chess and Poker. So then, are Poker games sports? Idiots. DDR is more of a sport than those. You can't slam video games for with no argument. Such ignorance.
If ESPN plans on broadcasting competitive gaming (or eSport), they really should tell their employees not to undermine it the next day. And they should push for more of this content to be showcased on ESPN by the way, as competitive gaming, whether you like it or not, is growing very fast and is really starting to get a lot of viewers.
And, as for his comments, I'd say this isn't about the players being athletes or not, or gaming being a sport or not, it seems he simply hates video games. He's no better than all the morning show hosts who claim video games are responsible for all the murders and crimes in the nation.
Honestly thats fine i wouldn't want someone so short sighted covering games he obviously has no interest either so why would i care about his opinion on it. Further more why would WE want esports on ESPN? its the games/players that attract veiwers so i don't understand why there can't be a new channel dedicated to esports of all kinds not just MOBAs that way there is enough content to keep the channel full or just do what BBC do and only have content between certain hours or even repeat events for people that miss them. Personally ill just watch LoL on twitch but i get why people would want it on TV.