eSports in EVE Online: Skullduggery, fair play and acceptability in an unbounded competition
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Officially organized, spectator driven eSport tournaments occur within the notoriously transgressive and ruthless game EVE Online. In these tournaments spying, bribing and throwing matches is commonplace. Based on results from interviews with competitors and spectators, this paper discusses the appeal of this unique eSport and explores the way in which the relatively ‘unbounded’ approach in EVE Online towards acceptable forms of play has been transposed into its eSport iteration. Indicative of a shift towards professionalization, EVE’s developer CCP Games has recently offered the first real-money tournament prizes and begun restricting tournament conduct with best-effort arguments. We argue that the skullduggery and malfeasance of eveSports is a key element of its attraction, but problematic within a sport due to its opacity to the spectator.
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