World Series of Video Games: No Longer World, Nor Series
The World Series of Video Games has shut down in the face of high costs and no profits. Though, according to GamesIndustry.biz, winners who won prize money will still be paid.
The statement currently up on thewsvg.com notes, “the continuing challenges of securing adequate revenues to sustain the production of the WSVG’s large scale events and television programming, in a very crowded field of competitive gaming leagues, has prompted us to re-evaluate our direction as an organization.”
And that direction is right down the crapper.
Tangential hilarity can be found in that The WSVG was touted by E For All as proof that Microsoft was still attending their doomed conference since MS was a major sponsor of the WSVG. So, implosion of the WSVG is only going to further bury E For All.
I don’t know why I derive pleasure from complete marketing failures like E For All, but I am truly sad to see the WSVG go by the wayside. I can’t say I’m a big fan of “professional gaming” or anything, but it does serve to “legitimize” and moderate how video games are portrayed in the mass media.
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