Yesterday, as the Senate is considering Bill 319, approved in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, which in simple words, orders the Tourism and Cooperativism Commission to carry out a study on the market for sports betting and electronic games in Puerto Rico, for economic reactivity and how Puerto Rico could capitalize.
On the gaming side, literally video games and eSport have created a particular interest and it is remarkable in these times, the reality is that the pandemic has delayed the works for this law project, but this week there was a public hearing to continue the work.
Deposed Francisco López, founder of “Yo Soy un Gamer”, who took the initiative to make the clarifications and definitions of everything that has to do with the gaming industry, noting the existence of already established development studios (4 so far ), eSport and the difference with eGaming and industry statistics, concluding that Puerto Rico is late to adopt economic development opportunities.
For his part, Iván Colón “El Giga” co-host of Yo Soy Un Gamer and one of the first video game content creator in the Puerto Rican mainstream media, described the profile of what gamers are and particularly noting the differences between children, young people and adults and put an end to the paradigms that there are not female gamers.
Both emphasized how the video game industry moves money and recently mentioned the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft and comparisons with other industries such as film.
Finally, Ricardo Román aka MonoPR, eSport athlete and founder of First Attack Tournament Puerto Rico, deposed, described the status of Puerto Rico within the world of eSport and in which we are practically on the map and Capcom has already brought an official event on Brazil, which is generally the Latin American eSport destination of the Japanese but, it was lost against the Dominican Republic.
Events that helped during the pandemic were described, such as how the NBA and the BSN (the local league in Puerto Rico) thanks to eSport because then staff and players were able to continue collecting their contracts through game events.
Also the jobs that are created, such as mental health professionals, to maintain focus and manage the emotions of the players.
In short, the visit of competitors and fans outside of Puerto Rico can be captured, safeguarding local talent and how eSport has managed to maintain traction in related industries despite the pandemic.
Of course, it draws attention to how the lack of support has caused the flight of talent and other countries take advantage of their departures.
A few years ago, the Rosello Administration had established that it wanted to practically make feasible a government effort to have an agency that really regulates and encourages the industry, but the reality is that personally I WOULD HAVE LOVED that this remained in the private and non-governmental part and unfortunately the very politics of the parties in power in Puerto Rico have naturally created my distrust that something can be done well.
I only hope that this makes me wrong because it means good for the industry and how ironic it is that many stories of "how we wasted time" could now be collected from the Treasury in a clean and legal way.
https://vimeo.com/672391759 #Gaming #Videojuegos #PuertoRico Yesterday, as the Senate is considering Bill 319, approved in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico, which in simple words, orders the Tourism and Cooperativism Commission to carry out a study on the market for sports betting and electronic games in Puerto Rico, for economic reactivity and how Puerto Rico could capitalize.
On the gaming side, literally video games and eSport have created a particular interest and it is remarkable in these times, the reality is that the pandemic has delayed the works for this law project, but this week there was a public hearing to continue the work.
Deposed Francisco López, founder of “Yo Soy un Gamer”, who took the initiative to make the clarifications and definitions of everything that has to do with the gaming industry, noting the existence of already established development studios (4 so far ), eSport and the difference with eGaming and industry statistics, concluding that Puerto Rico is late to adopt economic development opportunities.
For his part, Iván Colón “El Giga” co-host of Yo Soy Un Gamer and one of the first video game content creator in the Puerto Rican mainstream media, described the profile of what gamers are and particularly noting the differences between children, young people and adults and put an end to the paradigms that there are not female gamers.
Both emphasized how the video game industry moves money and recently mentioned the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft and comparisons with other industries such as film.
Finally, Ricardo Román aka MonoPR, eSport athlete and founder of First Attack Tournament Puerto Rico, deposed, described the status of Puerto Rico within the world of eSport and in which we are practically on the map and Capcom has already brought an official event on Brazil, which is generally the Latin American eSport destination of the Japanese but, it was lost against the Dominican Republic.
Events that helped during the pandemic were described, such as how the NBA and the BSN (the local league in Puerto Rico) thanks to eSport because then staff and players were able to continue collecting their contracts through game events.
Also the jobs that are created, such as mental health professionals, to maintain focus and manage the emotions of the players.
In short, the visit of competitors and fans outside of Puerto Rico can be captured, safeguarding local talent and how eSport has managed to maintain traction in related industries despite the pandemic.
Of course, it draws attention to how the lack of support has caused the flight of talent and other countries take advantage of their departures.
A few years ago, the Rosello Administration had established that it wanted to practically make feasible a government effort to have an agency that really regulates and encourages the industry, but the reality is that personally I WOULD HAVE LOVED that this remained in the private and non-governmental part and unfortunately the very politics of the parties in power in Puerto Rico have naturally created my distrust that something can be done well.
I only hope that this makes me wrong because it means good for the industry and how ironic it is that many stories of "how we wasted time" could now be collected from the Treasury in a clean and legal way.
https://vimeo.com/672391759
#Gaming #Videojuegos #PuertoRico
