The whole severity issue got me thinking about how being a fan of gaming would change if it become more popular and mainstream. And the more I think about it the more I think it wouldn't neccessarily be good for us, the 'first' fans.

I mean, look at what we have at the moment: I doubt whether the level of play would go up spectacularly if the player pool increased, the best pro's are already doing it near full time anyway. At best the number of top players would increase.

We get to watch the matches we want, when we want, with shoutcast commentary (mostly), for free. If we have a suggestion, we can make a nice post on promode.org (sometimes), and get whatever we want fixed, if He agrees with it. Hell, every now and then you even get a pro player to respond to a question, directly, or someone like Angel from cpl, if you post very nicely on cpl's forums.

I just don't see how that would be possible if the fanbase was about (say) 10 times bigger than it is now. Every possible channel or forum would be flooded with people that, in general know a lot less than the average troll on ESReality. We'd probably have to start listening to commercials on shoutcasts, a lot, and have our GTV obscured by them as well. MNaybe even start with Pay Per View's, or something like that.

Thoughts?