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Future of Indian Esports Industry / How far can this Industry go ahead ? / Future of Young Esports Dreamers.

by Pradyumn Kumar Gupta | Sep 6, 2020 | Blogs, Esports

In India, Pubg mobile was banned but Esports Industry has a huge potential for the future. But let’s see some ways to look at it.

Pessimistic: No future.
Optimistic: There’s potential.
Realist: Bleak/extremely niched.

Currently, as it stands there are 2 major stigmas involved with Video games.

The first one is many people grab your place with cheat and hacks in the esports industry and officials are trying hard to stop it, but only in some games. And the second one is it won’t give you a degree and it’s not like physical sports.

Let’s talk about pubg mobile, in one week (20-27 Aug. 2021), Pubg mobile (BGMI India) banned more than 1.4 million devices and 2.6 million accounts. So, it’s great to see that some Esports are working hard to stop hacks and cheating.

But I’d like to take a positive outlook on it. I believe it’s a matter of time and a matter of the right individuals getting together to form something that is promoted as a niche ground root movement before going into commercial whoring.

Esports today can be a marketing tool to the same audience Snapchat caters to with one crucial difference. The esports audience is not ephemeral and has much higher retention numbers.

Celtz won PMPL SA and suddenly everyone appreciates them because it was an underdog team in this tournament. Then, India and Asia come on the esports map. After it, we have more expectations from our Indian teams that they perform well in PMWL and they did. Team Orange Rocks come 2nd position and we didn’t get a trophy from only 7 points. But this performance of OR gave us new hope that we can be an esports player. and can win a trophy for our country.

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For the future of esports industry in India, we need to require these things:

A mass following:

It comes from acceptance already in place. We require a central place for people to hang out and discuss. Connecting gamers of India together is done across different games but there’s no central medium that caters to them alone. Most of them are just ad-based biased outlets of video games.

A mass sponsorship or infusion of funds: We are going to fast to grab these opportunities for sponsorships. Many communities have foreign sponsorships like Tsm, 8bit, Godlike, celtz, Fnatic, etc.

This requires support by companies that actually believe in the idea that the youth of today have purchasing power and need the right message and medium to be catered to. So think Redbull, think Razer/Steelseries gear, and don’t think about biscuits.

The right governance:

One that doesn’t have criminals like the IGC guys lowballing dealing and cheating Indian audiences. This has to be by gamers, for gamers, and gamers. We can’t have someone who sat in an FMCG for 20 years ever try to understand the mindset of a gamer. And gamers are great guys who might not do well in school and might not be ramp walk models but have the dedication to build their IQ.

and also the Indian govt. notice that they will search for it and talk with gamers and then make a govt. gaming association and which works for the esports Industry.

The right vision:

What does esports stand for? Competition at the highest level where caste, creed, financial status, religion, body type, and physical attributes (height/weight/skin colour) don’t matter. Do you have what it takes mentally and mechanically to compete using your mind? That’s what eSports is about.

It is the purest form of competition. Very akin to Chess btw but Chess is far less mechanically demanding.

So, If you wanna be an esports player, you need to grind yourself and have a good team with good synergies.

Be Pro In Every Situation So you can be felt proud.

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Does Esports Industry like PUBG Mobile, COD: Mobile, FreeFires, Fortnite, etc have a future and potential in India?

by Pradyumn Kumar Gupta | Aug 28, 2020 | Blogs, Esports

Esports are on the rise worldwide and the rise has been exponential over the past few years. Let me start with an example of one particular game that I have been playing so many times now, Pubg Mobile (PlayerUnknown Battlefield). I started playing Pubg Mobile back in 2018 end, right from the last year of college. I have followed many international tournaments and watched all the big teams play.

To name a few, big tournaments like Pubg Mobile Club Open, Pubg Mobile World League, Pubg Mobile PL, and many tournaments of pubg mobile and the prize money used to be around $850K and $1 million/country in a single tournament.

In 2020, Pubg Mobile Officials announced the launch of a new version(New Era) for Pubg Mobile named “PubgMobile 1.0 new era” and it will be the turning point in history. And now it will be decided that all the tournaments will now have Pubg Mobile New Era. In 2020, the number of tournaments and Prize money was on the rise.

Back then participation is good but still, it has some drawbacks like some teams used hacks at the starting level and pubg failed to stop them yet. They wasted many slots of good teams. There were only a few teams from Europe and South Asia. But now the participation has increased drastically with huge participation from North America and South America with European and American teams still occupying the Top 20 positions.

Now let’s have a look at the prize money of the few tournaments held so far in 2020:

PMWL 2020 SEASON ZERO EAST – $850k million
PMWL 2020 SEASON ZERO WEST – $850k million
PMCO 2020 – $1 million/country
PMPL SOUTH ASIA – $ 200k
and the list goes on…….

and the tournament arenas now look like this:

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and this

There are several organizations coming up that function just like sporting clubs in any other sports (such as football clubs in football). They have contracts with players, they sign and release players and sometimes they sign and relieve the whole team (it’s a team of 5-6 that plays), they have now coached to form strategies and a group of analysts working behind them to prepare the players for big matches. and mentally motivate them.

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The salaries of these teams are now offering is more than what big firms and MNCs can offer. Last year 5 players of TSM (Team Solo Mid) decided to leave TSM and form their organization. TSM quickly sent out the notice that they needed a new team and the salary offered would be $10,000 per month plus tournament win bonuses. And This happened in the counter strike, but there are other games as well such as DOTA, Pubg, clash of clans, FIFA, LEAGUE OF LEGENDS, counter strike, etc where the prize money is even more massive.

Now let’s have a look at the prize money of the few tournaments held so far :

Counter-Strike- $10.22 Million
Fortnite – approx $7 Million
DOTA2- $ 5.22 Million
Rainbow 6- Approx $4 Million and so on…….

And now let’s compare the prize pool of esports with traditional sports:

After the ban on Chinese esports games (Pubg Mobile in 2021, Free Fire & BGMI in 2022) the growth of the esports industry in India is increasing slowly. But hopefully, soon we can see a new BGMI game for the Indian market only without any interface from a Chinese company.

The esports industry has grown faster than anyone could have predicted, the future is bright and so my friends –

THE GAME HAS JUST BEGUN.

Be Pro In This Industry and Grab Big Opportunities.