Saudi Arabia's Plan to Dominate Esports in 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Esports in 2024 is a curious case indeed: As big investors are stepping out, Saudi Arabia is stepping in, pouring billions into this thriving yet fragmented industry. But is Saudi Arabia genuinely boosting esports, or is it a strategic play at the cost of the industry’s independence? With concerns about an esports monopoly, I’ll unpack Saudi Arabia's real impact. What's in store for esports - global recognition or commercial exploitation?
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Only 400 views in 2 days? I was watching this under the impression it was a huge channel. I’m here before it blows up. Great quality video.
same here. I thought a big youtuber
maybe industry plant
I love when westerners trying to act like they have a high morality and authority to say other countries and cultures what to do or not to do, It's pretty funny.
the west isn't perfect but its a hell of a lot better than saudi
@@cyberturkey77Saudi didn’t genocide half of the world Ethnicities in the name of colonization and exploitation
@@keymot1491 Saudi crying tears of jealousy that they couldn't do that because they were living in sand holes at the time. Now that they got oil money they try to catch up in atrocities.
I love when non-westerners are trying to act like westerners shouldnt worry if a single, culturally distant and money hungry regime tries to take over entire markets
@@keymot1491Islamic invasion 🙂 I am Egyptian and know the history so don't play any history card with me 😂
one thing i've noticed that the whole industry (not only esports) is shifting to the EAST.
that where the money is and will be.
it's a good change, because western companies are only focused on rainbows
The funny thing is that y’all talking about human rights violations in Yemen and now your country is attacking Yemen. Will you boycott participating in tournaments in your country? Or just y’all hypocrites.
westerns.....
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Pay attention, the difference is being mentioned in the video. The Saudi state is DIRECTLY PAYING for all that esports jazz. List me three tournaments that are directly being paid for by other governments.
What do you want from people reconginzing a terr!!st genocidal organization called israel a country...... They make me sick as hell..... HYPOCRITES
Saudi's destroyed yemen from 2015. And Saudi extremist whabbi regime was installed by England
Read history. It all make sense
There are no good western regimes left anymore
Saudi Arabia owns sports and it's for the better!
did see the Trophy system in Esport World Cup
Exactly 😊
Now talk about USA and Israel human rights issues in Palestine, baghdad, syria, and more and their relations to any developments and ehancements those countries are involved it... then see if that makes sense! The bias is showing... :)
None of the west knows the details of instances they talk about. Moreover, the reforms and modernization started 10 years ago. It's just Western media choosing not to report on it as they don't meet their agendas about the image of the Middle East...
Tell your terrorist friends to stop what they are doing first
Let's not forget what America did with Japan, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan but no one said that the NBA or the NFL or any other sport is sport washing
Nice whataboutism. Also don't forget that theres also a big difference of whats being done now as compared to the past.
Are you just randomly relating major wars to sports?
@@sigurdtheblue that's what everyone who says saudi arabia is sport washing is doing
@@sigurdtheblue
What about israeal donates ?
Stop being idealistic.
The West are warmongers and supporters to what happens
@@redhaalawadh2573Nobody says sports washing because of past wars saudi arabia participated.
They’re saying sportswashing because SA is a dictatorship that has the kefala system and human rights abuses ingrained in its laws.
Now Saudi team falcons is bigger than all of your countries combined.
Falcons is a mobile game team LOL
They suck in every respected esports.
1- Death for tweet Can you give me his name + what he actually did ?
2- Jamal Khashoggi's killers were individuals, and all of them were executed in islam anyone who kill another must be executed that’s why we are one of the safest countries in the world
3- The famine in Yemen is our fault or the fault of the Houthis who fire missiles at our oil facilities and commercial ships in the Red Sea and say death to America?
4- Women ? You just said woman and then stopped. Can you explain the problem?
As for workers in low-income
professions, we did not kidnap them from their countries to work for us. They can go whenever they want it’s literally 10x more than what they make in their country for the same role🤡
I swear I'm starting to feel pity for the Western media who breathe lies
And the list goes on 🗿
They just repeat the lies they got fed by the fake news and they are too lazy to research for themselves
They can drive now! 🤡🤡🤡
ignorence my friend. sheeps who can't think on their own. ironic really you would think the sheeps are saudies
The name of the guy is Muhammad al-Ghamdi. He was held in solitary for four months before being sentenced to death for his opinions expressed on social media.
You know what, you should try something just to prove your point about how free and safe you are: You take a big poster, write "Salman is a corrupt human rights abuser and women should not have legal guardians" on it, travel near the Al Yamamah Palance and just stand there, holding it up. That's a form of protest that anyone in any western country is free to do without receiving punishment. Get back to me how it went, yeah?
@dommanu1879
Saudis rulers are monarchies not presidents or prime Ministers
If you say the same to British and Spain monarchy you will go to jail too
Counterstrike and league worlds are the best esports tbh. Starcraft was good but so small now. Valorent pretty good too
Please keep this up. This channel will undoubtedly grow astronomically sooner rather than later
very well done! thanks
I literally actively was searching for this video and wasn’t able to find it I had to get a direct link to this video from Armstrong TVs reaction video
I'm from Saudi Arabia and every person I knew plays some kind of video game. I myself have spent well over $10'000 from my parents or university stipend on video games over my life as a child till my mid-twenties. Many people will say negative things, but these initiatives make me happy and proud and to me that is more important than looking good at people who don't live in or like my country.
Thats some next level quality journalism and videos genuinely enjoy watching your them :)
Another high quality video, I wonder why you haven't gotten 100K+ subscribers yet! really entertaining, I can't wait for the next video!
I guess for now I'm just a generic "person that is on here" :)
you will start blowing up soon, I watched the first half of the video thinking you were at least 100k+ subs @@BelindaErcan
Yup, eSport need to be run/funded by a moral group that knows how to handle a joystick, like drone operators!
Next up: Satan fights against jaywalking!
less gay stuff in games doesnt sound bad
My feeds are full of gaming news an yet I've never really heard of this?! that's crazy. Great content.
My only criticism is that I'd watch more. Admirable how much content was shoved into 12 min. Other youtubers often feel like they speak at 0.5x and have filler segments just to strech their videos for watch time.
This, I'd watch for a 30min, and slower paced.
so any thing we do is a washing ? so tell us what should we do that not deal with washing
I think the sports washing accusations are mostly just fear mongering. I think what people are actually concerned about is when governments directly orchestrate take overs and mergers. Its only natural for people to be concerned when one state has complete control over their favorite sport.
Saudi Arabia has a big responsibility to accommodate to the international fans values, if they fail to do this, I can’t see esports succeeding in Saudi hands. MBS seems like a forward thinking guy on the surface, hopefully he can make it work.
What I would say to the saudis is to be aware that you are not investing in domestic sports like the NFL in America, you are investing in sports that are popular internationally.
Accommodating to international values is not only a matter of good faith, it is critical to the financial success of the sports.
Just because you own it doesn’t mean it truly belongs to you. The fans will always voice their concerns.
If the Saudis are able to acknowledge these concerns, I think people will be very open to Saudi operated sports. I think its great what they’re for esports and the new esports olympics is a big win for esports and I am hopeful for the future of esports in Saudi hands.
@@andrzejszpak688 international values doesn't equal your values. no one cares about your values.
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@@nothingness863Sorry for you, but homophobia and modern slavery are not international values lmao.
Go back to your echo chamber.
esports should get the point were each 2 years a coutry hosts it like the olypics seeing its a global game
The problem about Americans thay forget what they did in the past and now take about Saudi Arabias crimes
Saudi Arabia crimes ? wdym
@@itachiUchiha-kv2hi they’ve mentioned the association of some journalists and make it look so bad so what I’m saying is the us is worse than what they think
I assume you're being willfully ignorant
Not only in the past their crimes are happening today
at this point, I think any thing ksa do will be considered washing xD
This kind of journalism is what i appreciated the most. I hope your channel grows and prosper in the future
This is a big and important topic. Thank you for keeping the conversation going around it
This video was wayy beyond my expectations. Great research and editing
what an amazing video keep up the amazing style and you will for sure find success
Good on charlie for continuing to be a decent human being
you know Moist Esport is coming to Saudi Arabia for Esport World Cup right?
Online competitive gaming is going to out pace sports and be the new competitive arena. Saudi Arabia knows the future and so do you, that's why you chose your channel to report on the gaming experience. In 25 years gaming news will be bigger than sports and politics.
The boycotting of this sent such an odd message.
Great video!
You make amazing videos - ty
I gotta go thru your library myself 😂
I found you thru asmon. I've been watching since, but now I realize I gotta go thru your library and stop relying on asmon lol or waiting for new videos. You got some bangers on this channel
welcome to my library :)
9:29 they reached the final in london 😂
Money laundering same as cryptocurrency and art markets; hand in hand with bubble capitalism.
ok, that blew my fucking mind, i had no idea. i mean, i knew SA was organizing "some" events, i knew they bought ESL, but other than that, i guess i didnt put 2+2 together. this explained everything and then some, thank you. your videos really deserves bigger audience.
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How on earth is this channel not more popular?!
🥹 thank you
On god
bec its new
thanks for the video :)
This the reason why The Gaming Industry Earlier this year has a massive layoffs
If there are any rich saudis reading the comments, I am ready to play any video game and welcome all investments. A small donation of $1 million will suffice. Shukran 😂
saudi joining esports is allowing for esport player to actually get paid well w
What are you talking about, the players are the people that made out like bandits with ridiculously inflated salaries in the hundred thousands, sometimes millions of bucks each year. It was the orgs that bled money because they didn't bother to build revenue streams or demand those from publishers. All they had was fleeting VC investment. One org jacked up on VC could drive player salaries up for everyone. There is not a single esports player on these big stages that generates as much return for their org as they are being paid.
not even sure if that country still exists in 30 or so years
probably not. Gonna be in a much worse place when the oil runs dry, and they have one of the largest male youth populations.
That’s a revolution waiting to happen.
It will it gets less dependent on oil by alot on recent years
Thank you Belinda!! I’m happy this was in my feed and I definitely subscribed and will be looking forward to your upcoming videos. I’m curious what games your into?
Ha, where to begin. I played CoD during Covid times, currently on Persona 5. I’m mid way through Alan Wake, can’t wait for FF 7 part 2 (forced myself to NOT watch the demo gameplay), AC, I tried starfield but..no. Sometimes I just jump into Roblox Arsenal in between meetings for a quick dose of gaming. And chess (does that count?) my backlog is long so I play mostly older games. How about you?
comment to boost the algo, such great informative vids, I like how they are structured and have that human touch to them
Great video!
Nice Video. Only a matter of time before this channel gains a large following.
commending you for a great video & sure many more to come - more people need to be aware of this!
Very high quality video ! Very happy I've found this channel. Best of luck with your future vids, you've gained a sub !
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1 minute in and im already astounded by the quality compared the the views/subs. how are you not bigger?? dropped a sub and like, cant wait to see you grow
So happy you like it. Thanks for the sub 🙏
Great video
These videos are great!! Asmon Baldie brought me here
Great vid again !
Great video
Hypocrite at it finest and saudi arabia still wins 😂😂😂😂
thought this channel had like 250k subs just based on quality of vid/presentation good stuff
Found and subbed to you through asmons reaction! You’re awesome, keep it up ❤
Quite engaging content, a good 12 min of time spent being informed. Keep up the good work!
This should be a bigger story
great video and great video concept
Real quality videos!
Great video
Great video... leaves plenty of food for thought after the video finishes, which is the mark of a great presentation. I think a lot of people don't want to think about the uncomfortable truths behind big investments like this (regardless of which country or industry those investors come from), and you've done an admirable job in touching on a lot of points of view & potential consequences in a short video.
If this is your starting point with TH-cam content, I'm keen to see what's to come! 👍
Here from asmon you 100% got me as a sub!
"They're not and never will be politically neutral"
The games and eSports are neutral. The people aren't. If you see a game that's focused too much on bringing a "diversity" to a game, you'll see that it's gonna fail, since every game's entire foundation is "fun", not being diverse. If you watched Half Life 20 years documentary, you'll find a quote from Gabe Newell about gaming in general: "We have to redefine what 'fun' is." That means that the definition of fun is absurdly blurry and bringing unnecessary stuff to the game, why would it be fun anymore?
Look, I know you're trying to have a middle ground by saying both good things and bad things from KSA move of funding e-sports. But in my perspective, since the prince's answer is so pragmatic, I don't think it has anymore agenda than just "oh esports looks like a cool business venture, we have lots of wealth fund, why not?". You should know that the Arabian prince loved Dota so much that one of the reason that Dota 2 has its biggest single-game tournament prize ever in gaming wa because one of the prince was literally whaling the tournament's battle pass to get the content. And this battle pass is directly adding money to the prize pool of the game.
Why do we never see a "state is funding the game"? Because KSA has a monarchy government where the state controls most of the resource. Is it a bad thing? Depends on your government. As long as the state is controlling the resources fairly and the citizen lives with happy lives, it should be good right? I think westerners are so used to "people running the country = bad" that will generalize every country's "absolute state power" as "bad", because they think absolute power means exploitation of resources.
I've been following esports for years now, and I saw many government funded esports tournament went just normal without those nonsense. Malaysia, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Russia, UAE, Belarus, Mongolia, Georgia, all has state funded esports tournament. Most of them only for locals because they're underfunded and can't invite tier 1 teams in the world as it became much more expensive to host (and many teams will not join since the prize pool is not comparable and "not worth the long trip"). But many state-funded international tournament has been held by IESF (Russia), IESPA (Indonesian), hell even BEF (British) has their own state funded tournament. Is it fair?
Why can't we just view esports as is? The pro player just want to play the game. The team just want to be at least break even. People outside of gaming commenting about everything but the game itself.
To see why the esports needs funding so badly, watch Modern MBA's video about the economics of esports.
You might be right. Time will tell.
Your videos are so well edited and you are an excellent presenter!
Thank you very much :)
Slovenia's game with the most eSport players is Slovenia?
there are 2 things you should note are:
1: one of the reasons those companies have started using micro transactions and dlc after dlc in recent years , IS because of saudi players... because majority of them are so rich, that spending itself is a kind of fun for them.
2: this vast money makes the future games more and more leaning towards casual games and competitive games and might make gaming industry look away from RPG and science fiction games... which is really really sad imo.
Yeah what is going on here. How is your production quality so high?
I write and direct and my editor turns it into 🔥🔥🔥:)
Thank you!
Quality video, subscribed
I don't expect Turks to say anything positive about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Amazing. Subbed.
money over Human Rights equals Team liquid
"human rights" is a western tool to attack other countries, nothing more. if you want to take an objective look, america is the biggest human rights violater in human history. they do experiments on their people constantly without their consent. have you forgotten CIA's MK ultra, or when they sprayed chemicals and viruses on cities? The list goes on. Not to mention the invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and their support of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. But no, all that doesn't matter. its the "saudis" that violate "human rights".
more like money + virtue signaling over human rights equals every single company on earth.
Overwatch was such an artificial and forced esport. It sucked as a viewer even when it was really popular to play.
This is really good. I was expecting to be disappointed, but you made great arguments for both opposing the Esports World Cup and supporting it. I think the one thing that really sticks out that I did not know about is the LIV Golf situation which shows that your concerns are not unfounded.
Amazing video and great quality! Came here after Asmongold covered one of your video's and I'm really surprised you don't have more views/subscribers. So here's my sub!
Right out of the gate it has to be said the tough-to-swallow truth is that in big parts it's the fans fault that esports can be bought up by the Saudis.
Esports fans don't spend money to support the scene. That's just how it is. Ask any esports viewer if they would be willing to support PPV and you will receive monumental backlash with ridiculous arguments like that would kill esports. Brother, it's already dead because nobody is paying anything!
Developer overreach (especially by Riot Games) is another reason. To them esports is just a marketing exercise for the casual game. They actively suppressed natural grass roots movements (like how Riot shut down OGN, which was profitable thanks to PPV) or try to create them artificially (Activision Blizzard with OWL, which was an astroturfed failure from day 1).
That left teams with few options, they became dependent on VC money. But in order to get the biggest deals they all started to lie about numbers. They conflated video games with esports and actively massaged and made up all the numbers they could in order to make it seem like a more attractive investment. Many publishers did the same (again, most notably Riot Games and Activision Blizzard). The desperate need to be recognized by the mainstream stomped out grass roots development and overinflated everything into a bubble.
And then there were of course the countless grifters and tourists that were in it for a quick buck and exploit the hype like locusts moving from one thing to the next. It was in their interest to grow their assets as quickly as possible and then dump them at the peak before it all came crashing down. A classic pump and dump scheme.
Now the bubble popped because nobody invested into building a sustainable ecosystem. Everything is dependent on outside investment and the fans were never conditioned to pay.
Desperate for cash and at the verge of collapse they now go to the next sugar daddy. And the Saudis are more than willing because they want to improve their economy, their global image and they want to make people indirectly complicit with their barbaric practices, leading to self censorship and less people talking about these issues.
The layers of abstraction have been wholly stripped away. The same people that change their bio pic to a rainbow flag during pride month and claim to stand for diversity, inclusion and equality are now directly working with a state that is persecuting, executing and oppressing these very same groups. Women are allowed to drive, don't make me laugh. Now we have to be lectured about the mythical gender wage gap by people that actively support a theocracy where women have male guardians. Whataboutisms for days and hollow justifications like organizations crying that they HAVE to do it in order to stay competitive. It's all a comedy.
Wow!! I didn't know western geno cidal ani mals have feelings and actually care about the women they murder!! Million faced goons.
U sa vage ani mals must really shut ur aholes and never speak about morality, and I mean never!! peace from 🇮🇪
Interesting analysis! Esports is a global phenomenon, and there's bound to be a variety of perspectives on how to make it sustainable. Perhaps a focus on building bridges and finding common ground across different regions could be part of the solution.
@@SaeedMSR It's possible to make it sustainable but for that people would have to admit that it's not as big as they would want it to be (either for self-affirming or monetary reasons).
Don't pay players millions of bucks a year even though they hardly generate that value (not in exposure, not in winnings, not in brand and name recognition) over their entire lifetime.
Don't rent the biggest stadiums that you can't fill and then have to hand out the tickets for free just to make it seem less empty (yes, that happened).
Normalize PPV and foster an environment where esports fans are encouraged to spend money to support the scene.
Stop developer overreach and let third party organizers make tournaments.
Gatekeep the industry to keep tourists and pump-n-dump grifters out.
Force revenue share from publishers. To them esports is a marketing exercise and they sell more of their product to the casuals based on esports exposure. Make them make skins for teams.
For an ecosystem to be sustainable it needs the ability to keep going without outside interference. Bloody oil money or VC investors gambling on times-X returns is not how you create that.
You also have to decide how you would want to "build bridges". You cannot simultaneously tout, posture and scold others based on moral principles and then work for people that violate all of that just because they offer the bag.
came from asmongold, great video! subbed
Your videos are a delight. Here from Asmongold. Take my like and looking forward to the next one
@@762x69 🫡 thank you very much
Hhhh we all saw what happened to Russia teams and players in the real sport after their war with Ukraine + The war in Yemen is caused by a terrorist group funded by foreign countries to fight Saudi Arabia. This group was bombed several months ago by UK and USA for disrupting maritime traffic 😂. You have antithetical standards so stop telling us what to do and how we live.
@@ZiyadAlharbi8798 that’s what I said in the end of the video. The US met up with the Saudis a long time ago on the Great Bitter Lake - a meeting between King Abdulaziz and Roosevelt. The US wanted to do “business as usual.” As they always do. They’ve got their hands dirty in everything. Now, when it comes to sports, both countries do their “washing,” just in different ways.
no on cares about the activist opinion.
Here from Asmongold's react, great video btw! I think this is the third video from you that Asmon has given his thoughts on, and I can see why people love discussing your videos, they're well researched and well put together. Keep doing what you do!
Keep it up! Loved the video
Thank you very much, Henry 🙏
OWL was ridiculous! that format was never gonna work. The seasons they had better performance and more than likely most revenue were the first 2 seasons when they stayed in Burbank. The idea of touring around the world like a circus was logistically ludicrous. The best they could have done was stick to open tournament formats or actual American style league format, where we have at least 2 leagues split into different conferences to avoid so much touring and how expensive, time absorbing and exhausting that can be. Just to think of a format like that exclusively for NA would have been hard, even more so with the whole earth sphere involved. The amount of money they were asking from the e-sports organizations was also ridiculous. Hence why some of the most important ones like Liquid and 100 thieves didn't touch that league with a 1000ft pole 😂
What's crazy is that OW esports fans actually want that back. The new OWCS format is objectively better and it's what the OWL should've been from the start, but fans don't like it because they don't have the familiar league teams when they should've never existed in the first place, let alone for 6 years. Fans even flamed Blizzard for "firing" Soe not realizing that the position she worked in simply didn't exist anymore, so you can't really keep paying someone for an imaginary job position, which convinced me that OW fans have their perspective of esports completely warped after so many years of the OWL.
@@CR0WYT I've not seen the new format, I've basically uninstalled blizzard from my life, it was starting to become a toxic relationship 🤣🤣🤣 but that's how it is. Blizzard fans in general tend to be very defensive of their favorite company, simpin or not. I myself used to, not precisely go on the defense, but of the mentality that: "maybe they'll fix this soon" and that's how it was for the past 8 years until i became unhealthy and sick for grinding games and lacking proper diet and exercise until i had enough. I finally understood that neither the company or fanbase will change so I took the L and left. But the OWL, i still stick to my guns, was never gonna work, if they revive OW e-sports hopefully it will be more localized with multiple worldwide conferences that have multiple leagues. As for Soe, I didn't really mind the drama much ever, I had enough of that Q-ing up, but idk if she herself has shared her thoughts on the matter or if its just a bunch of fuckboy simps on Twitter (I'm sorry, X!) bitching cause they want their wet dream back. But if she hasn't said she feels an unfair scenario happened, maybe they should analyze the facts and facts are, she's a 30+ woman, married, her partner makes proper money to fend for both and she's also a mother now that has a little infant who perhaps she wants to spend more time with. Perhaps, adding those factors in can shed some light.
@@kopite4434 OWCS is an open circuit system. Players play through open qualifiers and play through Splits within their own region to qualify for Majors that consist of the top players from each region. Orgs like ENCE, Fnatic, and NRG already made their return to Tier 1 through open qualifiers or taking in new talent. Restrictions between tiers and franchised spots no longer exist. People don't like it because it's not as flashy as OWL was, but this is basically a hard reset on OW esports and a much healthier system that actually has a chance at reviving the esport or at least bringing it back to the pre OWL days.
The Soe situation is just a case of not understanding how the business model works. OWL was exclusively owned and funded by Blizzard, which included the staff, so Soe being "fired" wasn't because Blizzard didn't want her. Her position simply ceased to exist along with the OWL as a whole. She's still in OW esports, but under contract with FaceIt since they now run the NA and EMEA side of OWCS. Everyone called out Blizzard for making a dumb mistake for firing her not realizing what the actual situation was and not realizing that she's still technically "fired" from Blizzard. Most OWL fans that only watched OWL just don't know how these esports leagues work.
@@CR0WYT ah! Gotcha! Yeah, they basically went back to basics, the good ol cannot possibly fail format that others like CSGO have been using forever or at least something similar. This shouldn't have changed IMO, they should have just done this if they really wanted the e-sports scene to grow in OW to the very least, not disallow them to continue with an open format like this while having their top tier league in One Country, instead of a worldwide traveling circus that logistically was not gonna work. I don't even know if OWL made them profit when it came to revenue vs spending.
Ah! Well, people at this time n age, find it hard to find things to get busy on, so they spend time making shit up without looking at the whole frame. They Focus on one simple aspect of the issue like every one focuses the rival tank instead of realizing the opposite team also has 4 other players. They don't see everything else involved in a project like owl. I wouldn't even bother arguing with them, you won't change em, plebs will pleb and there's nothing we can do about it 🤷🏻♂️
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Great job Sis. That's the type of gamer the industry is needing the most. You got my Sub. Hope this video don't get take down by Great Ahemmm! Country, by the way 😂
Came here from Asmongold's stream, very nice video. Subscribed!
good quality got my sub
very good video
Im so tired of the west taking the moral highgrounds, "what esports is all about"...yea you dont get to tell the world how to live, because the resto of the world is getting bigger and the west smaller every passing day. wake up to the new world.
so she just put trump with the saudi leader to make trump look worse? or what was the point of that 1 second frame?
@@kenzor4953 editing mistake. Not a scene that makes any sense or was supposed to “mean” something.
@@BelindaErcan sure, you obviously lean one way. thats why u made the video in the first place
@@kenzor4953 as I said in the end of my video: we can’t point fingers at one singular country when other countries are doing much worse
What do you think now 😂?
Wow, this channel is amazing
Ah thank youuu 🥹☺️
Why u all jealous from saudi
Get lostttttt
The esport world cup in riyadh will be the biggest, the best in the world and u .....just keep screaming
I cant hear ur barking😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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very good video. people will virtue signal by speaking badly on saudi arabia but will turn a blind eye when america and european countries and corporations do worse things. I would be more worried about giving control of these leagues to a national entity compared to any sportswashing
“Gamer + marketing insider” . Nice video but I haven’t seen anything here that shows you’re a gamer? It’s ok to be a just gaming news channel but gaming audience normally would like to know what kind of games the channel host plays. Look at arrekz, asmon, belial etc … or are you just trying to be the next kotaku?
Shocking quality considering your channels size :)
I'm here before 500 subscribers
I'm really not in shock how those companies would change their mind when it comes to their stance about some political or gender view as soon as bigger money is involved.
But I do have a question though...
Where are all these ppl now which were saying how unhuman Saudi's are with their laws ?
If I had to guess probably silenced or fired... ;D
To many gamers dont want to pay to see events so can be hard to actually profit off them from just ads in a stream. Unless from skins and stuff.
I think majority of real profits will be coming from sponsorships, merchandising and sports betting. Last one might be a problem since gambling is haram, but it is very lucrative right now.