Perhaps the biggest obstacle to exporting e-sports to the West is a lingering belief that playingcomputergames is not a proper job an idea that would no doubt sound familiar to pioneers of professional sports from tennis to snooker.
But a majority of teens who play computergames say their parents do not have rules about how much time they spend playinggames or what games they are allowed to play.
And the indications here are not especially encouraging: the average 15-year-old boy spends four times as long playingcomputergames as reading, and almost half of fathers have ever read to their children, according to a survey published on Wednesday by Waterstone's.