Why isn't this a thing yet???
So I was thinking of ways that I could get more engagement and interaction here on the Hive Blockchain and I started thinking about some of the communities that I am involved in. Outside of OCD, I am involved in the photography communities and the gaming community.
I already have my Photography Lovers Community, and @acidyo and I just started a new Manipulation Station Community that focuses on photo manipulation. But I wanted to get more involved with the gaming community. One thing I have noticed here on Hive is that people like to enter contests and win Hive, so I figured, why not figure a way to incorporate eSports into the Hive blockchain?
There are several things that could hold this type of thing back from succeeding. The main one being participation. With eSports, it would require the gamers to be on at the same time and to have access to the same games. Cross-platform could also be an issue, because we have a lot of users that only have mobile devices, or they have computers with limited specs, which may not be able to run a lot of the different games.
We also run into the fact that the games themselves could be a hurdle for some potential participants. I would like to keep the cost of the games free so that we would be able to get the most participants. Games like Apex Legends, DOTA, and those types of games would be perfect for this type of thing.
So my questions to everyone are:
Are you interested in competing in eSports here on the Hive Blockchain?
What games would you like to see in the eSports Tournaments?
Would you participate only if it was a free entry for a smaller prize pool, or would you be willing to participate if you have to pay a few Hive with a chance to have a much larger prize pool?
Would you buy a game to participate, or would you prefer the free to play games?
I think that eSports here on Hive could be massive, not only for engagement, but for onboarding as well because it would require all participants to have a Hive account. I have always thought that gaming was meant for the blockchain, and Hive is the perfect platform to be hosting this type of stuff. We could even stream the events right from @threespeak. We have all of the tools to make this successful, we just need interest from the community to make it happen.
