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<blockquote data-quote="D1Tremere" data-source="post: 7765864" data-attributes="member: 61148"><p>But there is role playing involved in those games. You take on the role of a character who interacts with a story and the world in a certain way. You make dialogue choices and other critical decisions that influence the outcome of the story. You are incentivized to see the wold from different character perspectives, and experiment with different approaches.</p><p>Current e-sports only incentivize score performance. Unless they were to create a system of scoring that takes into account role playing, which they have shown no indication of, we will likely see the same in "RPG" e-sports. </p><p></p><p>I suppose you could argue that creating a real life persona is a type of role playing, as Henry said, but that would still be meta role playing. They are creating a show at that point for the real world, not one encompassing the game world.</p><p></p><p>It would be like someone showing up to a D&D game, killing everything and counting xp as a score without paying attention to the story, talking trash to the other players as their "character", and then telling other players they "won" D&D at the end of the session because of their score. You can make it team on team, and add objectives like be the first to ----, but then it is no different then capture the flag or other such modes in a FPS. The game then just becomes a skin for the same e-sports we see in every other fashion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="D1Tremere, post: 7765864, member: 61148"] But there is role playing involved in those games. You take on the role of a character who interacts with a story and the world in a certain way. You make dialogue choices and other critical decisions that influence the outcome of the story. You are incentivized to see the wold from different character perspectives, and experiment with different approaches. Current e-sports only incentivize score performance. Unless they were to create a system of scoring that takes into account role playing, which they have shown no indication of, we will likely see the same in "RPG" e-sports. I suppose you could argue that creating a real life persona is a type of role playing, as Henry said, but that would still be meta role playing. They are creating a show at that point for the real world, not one encompassing the game world. It would be like someone showing up to a D&D game, killing everything and counting xp as a score without paying attention to the story, talking trash to the other players as their "character", and then telling other players they "won" D&D at the end of the session because of their score. You can make it team on team, and add objectives like be the first to ----, but then it is no different then capture the flag or other such modes in a FPS. The game then just becomes a skin for the same e-sports we see in every other fashion. [/QUOTE]
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