Blog 2. 22.6. 2020

Tom's gaming blog #2

Last blog, I was very focused on what is happening. This time it will be overall. But the first story will also be about the present. 

During lockdown, sport was banned throughout the world, but slowly, it is returning to normal. I am not going to talk about it returning, but what they did instead of sports. Professions like footballers and hockey players found themselves playing virtual matches against each other. They played on sport simulators (Fifa, NHL). Motorsport racers took the situation very similarly. They had virtual races with points being given out after each race, but the biggest difference is, that they had actual sponsors, which appeared in the game.

 

E-Sports, is a very underrated position. relating to the previous story, virtual racers were better drivers than the actual IRL drivers. Which cought many by surprise. In the real world, E-Sport is something like a second league, when you compete in it, you feel proud, but everyone else doesn't care, everyone is interested in the first league. They deserve more attention, they devoted a lot of time into their hobby and should have more publicity.

How to qualify as a gamer. You might have heard, that to become a gamer, you need to buy equipment.

But actualy, you need a computer with stable FPS, a keyboard and a mouse, that's it. If you are missing any one of these devices, you can't play. Yes, better devices grant faster and better performance, but the difference is minor. The basic keys for plaing games are WASD, if you look at them, you might see, that it looks the same as the arrow keys. These keys are used, because they are much more comfortable to use than arrows.