"DaWaterRat;c-17354522" wrote:
"Amapola76;c-17354510" wrote:
(And don't even get me started on "e-sports" as a university athletic event, as though any reputable university would have any such thing.)
https://www.gamedesigning.org/schools/varsity-esports/
I looked through the list of schools that are part of that e-sports association, and... I stand by my original statement. :D
Not to be hateful, but there are no Tier 1, and it looks like not even Tier 2, schools on the list. Maybe a few Tier 3. It's... just not something I would associate with an elite school. Which is fine, and I don't want to dismiss the value of those programs... and that's my bad, for using the word "reputable" instead of "elite" or "prestigious", as I'm sure these are fine schools. But within the Sims Universe, Britechester and Foxbury seem to be intended to represent the Harvard/MIT/Oxford/Cambridge end of the spectrum. So, if the idea is that e-sports are supposed to reflect what's current/modern in the real world, in a particular type of setting, then they really missed the mark.
And if it's not intended to reflect the real world, I'm not sure what the point of it even is. Were tons of simmers clamoring for e-sports at university? I doubt it. Rather, I suspect that it's a type of wish fulfillment for some of the developers, who maybe wish they could have played e-sports in school? I'm sure that's part of the appeal of being a game developer, creating worlds that you would want to live in or be part of, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's going to appeal to your customer base.
