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We have heard rumors of Star Citizen as an e-sport, also that AC can be used for it.Do you have any plans on supporting e-sports in the sense of promoting it on the website?And hopefully more ideas?asked by Wokkels

TL;DRChris Roberts says Arena Commander and timed racing courses suit e-sports, which would be framed in-fiction, and they're looking at ways to let people watch or broadcast action, though not right away.

Actually our though is there's a lot of potential inside Star Citizen, so Arena Commander would definitely be something that would be a place where people could essentially compete and show off their dogfighting skills without having to risk their actual ship in the way that you would out in the Persistent Universe. And then we've got some other things that we're thinking about, we're had a lot about Murray Cup racing, and we've been focusing. We've got some races and we want to do a race course.We'll probably release something with Arena Commander, not v1.0, but just after that we'll have some timed racing courses and stuff that you can fly your ships in, which I think will be pretty cool. And yeah, both those things could be very suited to that e-sports set up. I think what we would probably do 'cause we always like to do everything in-fiction is to sort of have the e-sports part of it almost feel in-fiction.So if you're competing to be the best dogfighter or you're competing to be the fastest racer, you're really competing in the Murray Cup in our universe. You're competing in some big, fictional, invitational tournament or whatever for the dogfighting. We'll sort of do e-sports in our universe. Kind of like Inception one level inside something else.But yes, we think that would be fun, we're also going to do a certain amount of support for people to watch stuff, so not right away, but we're looking at ways that we can have sort of windows onto action, so you can maybe log in to the website and see some cool battle happening out in space, and definitely if we have a competition or e-sports scene we would figure out ways to broadcast the combat or ways to broadcast the racing, and maybe once the Persistent Universe is up and running, you could even be in a bar in the persistent universe looking at a TV and see basically our Twitch broadcast of that which you could also see direct on our website.Hopefully that sounds cool, that's kind of what we're thinking about.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 22. May 26th, 2014·
Published on this date.26 May 2014