Meanwhile this is just record in first 8 days in just india lol, also a question to indians how much is global esports popular in bgmi? Especially after they won first ever lan on tv?
It's actually a pretty big industry, especially in Southeast, East, and South Asia where a computer might not be accessible for half of the population, but a phone with decent features and a connection to mobile data can mean the entire world for aspiring gamers. Heck, I play mobile games for a quarter of my free time. I much prefer LoL Wild Rift over the PC counterpart.
Mobile esports like MLBB, Arena of Valor, Wild Rift, PUBGM/BGMI are household names that draw franchising leagues and millions of dollars in prizepools. High-profile teams compete in these games.
global esports are on the hype ever since BMPS (an official event of bgmi in india). they outperformed every teams in group stages and semis, but unfortunately could not make it to the top 1. But in this LAN event, GE were like 4th and it was the final match, they won the match with humongous kills and got the 1st place
What embarassing in that? Mobile gaming is fastest growing market, they achieved so much in just 3-5 years, just this lan had prize pool of 1.5 Inr crores which is like huge for a third party event and best part mobile esports is still in its infancy, also you are indonesian isnt mobile gaming huge in your country too?
Well if you wanna see like that prespective than thats your choice but you could also think as mobile gaming was untapped market for so many years and its recently started getting build up as an proper esports, getting alot of investors getting huge viewership, also watching games like pubgm, free fire doesnt means you are poor if one is poor that person might not even be able to afford a phone and data package
I just dont like the fact that most pro players here in my country use mobile gaming esports as their escape place if they failed in pc esports. that's just why.
people like BnTeT, xccurate, and now f0rsaken are struggled to fight against the temptation. And I really admire their attitudes of that. And now somehow the efforts paying off.