Keyser_Soze Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 It's fairly safe to say that fighting games probably have the most mainstream appeal and popularity of spectator video games for the average viewer due to the overall readability of what's happening onscreen. A fighting game is pretty straightforward compared to something like a moba or even a fps. However, despite all of that the prize pool of fighting games have been peanuts compared to the other games. The International 11 (Dota 2) prize pool was 18 million dollars, down from the 40 million from the previous year, but nothing to sneeze at. By comparison last year's Evo (which is arguably the biggest tournament) the winner of Guilty Gear came away with $21,000. The Street Fighter winner got $13,000. So this jump to 1 million dollars is pretty big and might even force the hand of other companies to take their tournament prize pool more seriously otherwise everyone will just be playing SF6. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacon Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 That is actually really cool. Sure, it will cause SF to get loads of new players they can sell MTX to, but damn, shit is lookin' good for dem fighty bois, finally. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Rashid so close 😭 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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