Why do play, follow, watch, and love video games /esports? so many people Why is that number of people growing so rapidly every year? Is the connection between gaming and humans primal? As humans, ancestors of our species (find food, etc.). Humans needed their physical capabilities to survive. As far back as in running, swimming etc. These . Over time, these competitions evolved into purely recreational sports such as Football and Basketball. spent most of their time hunting, gathering, and moving daily to survive 15,000 years ago we have records of people competing competitions were derived from the basic skills needed to survive In today’s economy, and the economy of the , more and more humans are making a living and surviving based on and their abilities to react to information produced on a machine, make inputs to the machine, and work as a team with other humans doing the same things. future technology As humans build more technology and rely upon it increasingly, it makes sense that we would , just as we have in the past. create competitive “games” around those “survival” skills While some say traditional sports spawned from some primal instincts to hunt, survive, and thrive, . The only thing that has changed is that instead of hunter gatherers, we are now a species that harnesses technology to survive. Therefore, . I contend that the large attraction to epsorts is born out of the same instincts it makes sense that we seek to compete in games that resonate with those same skills and abilities Stephen Hays is Managing Partner at Deep Space Ventures, a Micro-VC based in Dallas, TX that focuses on both Esports and B2B enterprise startups. Follow Stephen on Twitter Here Read More About Deep Space Ventures Here
