But here's the thing, even as a whole, the FGC is somewhat splintered between games and different subtypes of FGs. Why is this important? Because Esports aren't going to take on ALL FGs, just the most popular ones.
As of now, that's AEv'12 and UMvC3...but considering the unlikelyhood of getting those due to licensing issues, then we move on. eSports are also EXTREMELY unlikely to pick up any 2D games tbqh, so that takes out KOF and Blazblue. That pretty much leaves the 3D Fighters, which is no surprise as the only two FGs supported by eSports were 3D Fighters. Which means, more than likely Soul Caliber V and Tekken Tag 2 as the only candidates.
TBQH, anyone who doesn't play 3D Fighters should not get involved in this unless Capcom actually decides to deal with the licensing, which I doubt will happen. I don't play them, so I personally should not have an opinion and rightfully so.
This is important to realize as well.
I don't know that I will say to get rid of sponsorships as a whole, but the FGC is way too diverse to accommodate everybody's games for coverage, and the united FGC that we are will be heavily divided. I enjoy hearing opinions from players that play unheard of FGs, as you can apply fundamentals these games to any game. The FGC is strongly linked like that, but if the community becomes the Street Fighter 4 community, and not the Fighting game community, we're going to miss out on a lot of this diversity. I believe the diversity is what makes us strong, and to have eSports get involved will cause us to lose that diversity. If anybody thinks that the old schoolers are elitest, like I've been called many times, what's going to happen when we have these elitist old school gamers, the elitist "pro gamers", and then everybody else? Fuck that... There's enough separation within the community, that we don't need another facet of segregation affecting it like that.
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