Esports are relatively new ways for a sports career opportunity and media entertainment that grabbed more and more attention in the last few decades. However, with the vast variety of esports video game titles and genres, this new ecosystem faces new challenges related to the matter of sustainability, which phenomenon is usually referred to as "Esports winter". These phenomena could provide new fields and topics for research in all scientific areas. This should prove a good opportunity to study what is the background of these challenges and what are the opportunities that can be built upon to overcome them.
This special issue aims to collect studies and manuscripts that highlight the present challenges that the esports ecosystem is facing regarding its sustainability by addressing the diverse sources of the problems, the various hindering factors, and potential innovative ways to overcome and solve them. This would further help to better understand the current state of the esports ecosystem and how it could improve. Also, the variety of perspectives could yield insightful ideas and concepts (e. g. business models, keeping the audience engaged, increasing resilience and motivating e-athletes, management opportunities, etc.) which could nourish the esports ecosystem to become more sustainable.
The main theme, and topic this special issue addresses is the phenomenon of esports winter and all factors related to it (from playing and following esports to esports business models and team management). The way of creating a more sustainable esports ecosystem provides a ground for interdisciplinary research, not just for management, marketing, and economics perspectives, but also for the sociological, pedagogical, and psychological background of these challenges along with media, history, and culture related to esports. This variety of perspectives and different approaches could lead to a better understanding of the current challenges of the esports ecosystem and innovative ideas on how to overcome these difficulties moving forward.
Keywords:
eSports, e-athletes, eSports Winter, Video Games, Sustainability
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Esports are relatively new ways for a sports career opportunity and media entertainment that grabbed more and more attention in the last few decades. However, with the vast variety of esports video game titles and genres, this new ecosystem faces new challenges related to the matter of sustainability, which phenomenon is usually referred to as "Esports winter". These phenomena could provide new fields and topics for research in all scientific areas. This should prove a good opportunity to study what is the background of these challenges and what are the opportunities that can be built upon to overcome them.
This special issue aims to collect studies and manuscripts that highlight the present challenges that the esports ecosystem is facing regarding its sustainability by addressing the diverse sources of the problems, the various hindering factors, and potential innovative ways to overcome and solve them. This would further help to better understand the current state of the esports ecosystem and how it could improve. Also, the variety of perspectives could yield insightful ideas and concepts (e. g. business models, keeping the audience engaged, increasing resilience and motivating e-athletes, management opportunities, etc.) which could nourish the esports ecosystem to become more sustainable.
The main theme, and topic this special issue addresses is the phenomenon of esports winter and all factors related to it (from playing and following esports to esports business models and team management). The way of creating a more sustainable esports ecosystem provides a ground for interdisciplinary research, not just for management, marketing, and economics perspectives, but also for the sociological, pedagogical, and psychological background of these challenges along with media, history, and culture related to esports. This variety of perspectives and different approaches could lead to a better understanding of the current challenges of the esports ecosystem and innovative ideas on how to overcome these difficulties moving forward.
Keywords:
eSports, e-athletes, eSports Winter, Video Games, Sustainability
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.