Originally Posted by Maxiboo
Now, I think this is useless. Why waste resources and money on something that'll last a few minutes, you'll have to repair the robot too. Just give everyone in the audience a VR Device and simulate the same exact thing with contestants piloting the robots. This solves the limitations of these events. We have the technology to do so, so why don't we?
Because it's boring af. The competition is building the better robot, how are you going to do that in a game? Give them the same robot? Give them 20 stat points to place out?
It's like saying "wow why do people go to Monster Jam, just put a vr helmet on" or "racing tracks cost too much, we could just play Forza online instead"
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hey, robot wars was an awesome show, if they made something even larger than that it'd appeal to alot of younger people who like 'cool action stuff' then it would not only be successful, but, most probably a really entertaining show.
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Originally Posted by Zelda
I feel like whether it is what we consider a real sport is irrelevant. We should focus on how likely it is that it will become popular and whether we think that it would be a waste of money (and whether other similar types of entertainment are a waste of money by extension). In terms of likelihood of popularisation we need to think of how impressive it would actually look and whether it is as impressive as competing forms of entertainment as well as the economic viability of it (not in terms of ethics, in terms of whether participants in the sport could turn a profit).
It most likely wont be a waste of money for the organisers, they'll make crazy publicity for this, as well as sell a bunch of expensive ass tickets.
I can't see it being a continued sport though, I think it'll lose it's hype once people have seen it once.
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Originally Posted by Zelda
The people building the robots are payed for by sponsors and the sponsors get their money back from successful advertising. People paying to watch it get to see something awesome, and it would of probably been spent on something equally wasteful anyway. If it is economically viable and technologically possible, I can see no reason why it would be a bad thing.
Keep in mind they payed Pacquiao $50M and Mayweather got twice that so if the technology is advanced enough they would have a decent budget to work with. And BattleBots is a good example that people would watch a sport without any Human to Human Physical Contact.
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