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…lies in what fans are actually fans of, besides the sport in general.  This difference creates the difference in business models.  In solo sports, fans follow their favorite player.  In team sports, most fans keep their loyalties with their favorite team, even though players come and go over time.  Through examination of this key distinction, [...]

I must, out the gate, attribute this insight to my colleague Jeremy (@tehpennycook).  We were discussing our plans to poke our heads in at MLG DC in the week before the event, and found our viewpoints to be quite similar on the whole thing.  It sounded like he was lining up some interesting story lines [...]

I stuck around for about an hour.  It was enough. I wanted to see if these events were as spectator un-friendly as I had suspected, and I was pretty disappointed to find that I was right. It’s not that I want to rip on the biggest thing gaming has going in the States, or that [...]

So why does the gaming scene expect to do just that? This post’s title may be self-evident to most (in other words, duhhh) but it still needs repeating when it comes to professional gaming.  Consuming a product is a zero-sum game: producer gains money, consumer loses money, product changes hands.  So the idea that gaming [...]

Regular readers at this point will probably have realized that I spend a great deal of time researching and reflecting on the first decade of competitive gaming, trying to mine it for lessons we have (and haven’t) learned, and trying to figure out a proper direction from here.  One of the major themes my musings [...]

270: I keep popping Artists and keep on using them to fuel golden ages.  I think I’ve been through about 7 at this point. 286: Seen something I hadn’t yet and didn’t expect; France has gone and attacked too many city-states and has pissed them all off, so they’re all at war with France at [...]