The Olympics Silly demand to E-Sports.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

The Olympic committee will consider adding E-Sports , which has grew into a huge money making online sports gaming phenomenon that has started getting broadcast on ESPN. The Olympics seemed to realize this is a growing young demographic they need but the older ones on the committee don't really want that audience. So they made a really stupid demand that makes no sense.


https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/...iolence/?amp=1

Those pushing for the $1.5 billion esports industry to be considered on equal footing with traditional sports got a big boost back in October when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said that "competitive 'esports' could be considered as a sporting activity" for Olympic competition. It's becoming increasingly clear, though, that the IOC won't even consider any esports that involve violence, a decision that eliminates many of the space's most popular games.

Its pretty funny as the Olympic committee seems intent on being silly. Darn those make believe games where you kill folks in the future. That promotes violence !

[ChildOfTheAtom]

E-Sports is just as silly as real Sports.

[Chocolate Starmie]

Yeah we already spend way too much money paying hockey, football, soccer, and basket players to play their games. We don't need to pay people stupid amounts of money to play video games too

[Derek Metaltron]

I hate E-Sports with a passion given it forces all sorts of crappy nonsense into games, ESPECIALLY fighting games, which everyone else has to put up with, all for the sake of an unhealthy worship of some pro types who get their five minutes of fame before people stop honestly caring.

And also what Chocolate said.

[The Drunkard Kid]

I find it interesting that we may see a future where someone has a Gold Medal in Splatoon or Dane Dance Revolution.

Ooh! Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games!

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish designing a competitive game where you have to nonviolently dope your Olympians in a way the Olympic Committee came figure out. I'm thinking of making it a Civilization clone. There will be some sort of mechanic for figuring out how to offset the long-term cost of having successfully won the right to host the Olympics.

[Chocolate Starmie]

I hate E-Sports with a passion given it forces all sorts of crappy nonsense into games, ESPECIALLY fighting games, which everyone else has to put up with, all for the sake of an unhealthy worship of some pro types who get their five minutes of fame before people stop honestly caring.

And also what Chocolate said.

I'm not against organized sport or competitive video games, I enjoy watching some of both. Especially fighting game tournaments haha. I just don't think either deserve special funding or excessive amounts of spending

[Derek Metaltron]

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to finish designing a competitive game where you have to nonviolently dope your Olympians in a way the Olympic Committee came figure out. I'm thinking of making it a Civilization clone. There will be some sort of mechanic for figuring out how to offset the long-term cost of having successfully won the right to host the Olympics.

If you can find a virtual Russian doping expert to use virtual fresh urine samples to trick a virtual DOPA into virtually letting you join despite lots of virtual evidence and a virtual Netflix award winning virtual documentary, go for it

I also think Guinness World Records Video Game Edition would get a LOT more busy.

[Derek Metaltron]

I'm not against organized sport or competitive video games, I enjoy watching some of both. Especially fighting game tournaments haha. I just don't think either deserve special funding or excessive amounts of spending

And I respect your position, I'm just tired of developers like Capcom or EA using those sorts of things to fuel their already greedy practices. Olympics recognitiion would only worsen that, especially if the game market ends up flooded with contenders to join at the expense of well designed and well made non-e-sport experiences.

[Starter Set]

To keep your ass on a chair for most of the day playing video games is considered a sport now?

Man, they sure are a lot of athletes out there then.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Well here ya go...





In all I get the HA HA , these aren't athletes deal. Sure....but remember the Olympics came to them 1st and all. Because they wanted the youth of E-Sports and the money it generates. Its not E-Sports issue that some of the older geezers on the Olympics board are believing a fantasy game is somehow violent for them. In all yes you can blast all ya want. But at the end a lot of these guys are earning thousands of dollars per tournaments done. (ESPN has started airing some of them now)

[bruceleegreyhulk]

usually when some one thinks of sport they think of stuff like football. something that's physical. most won't consider competitive games to be sports and that includes Chess. fighting games were notorious for being extremely difficult . get good at a fighting game takes a lot of practice. their difficulty is why fighting games became a niche genre in the first place.

[daisetsu100]

im trying to think of a competitive game that has no violence... i could only think of the usual puzzle games (Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Puzzle Bobble, etc) and of course sports games (tecmo bowl, nba 2k, madden, fifa, etc) but that would be incredibly stupid to involve. anything else? are nintendo's mario kart and splatoon also "violent" by their definition ?

would FPS games need to have like a esports mode to have "kills" be represented in some other way ? and no guns?

[The Drunkard Kid]

I think that Splatoon would be like Judo, Wrestling, Fencing, and Hockey: non-lethal versions of something that is clearly designed around killing people.