yeah, they're very very different games with different requirements, and not only you're giving billions to a corp, you risk snubbing other companies and lose out on potential sponsorships and licensing deals
it seems like the only way you could ever do it fairly would be to have a generic genre game made specifically for the competition that you give the teams x years to practice on before the actual competition
anyway the other thing is, even if they did make a new game for it, i also feel like they'd have to make a new one every time so that there isn't an unfair advantage in how much time players have had to practice on the game?
as patches do severe change up how esports games are played, while things like mandating helmets, banning doping, or the like doesn't really alter the core sport.
that being said i feel like the official olympics game(s) could get away with having really basic blocky graphics as long as the game works really well
meanwhile, most people in the chess and go and poker communities don't really have that. like I think I saw an argument for chess to be in the Olympics a while back, but that's all I can recall
but actually there's nothing wrong with just comparing it to chess. chess has its own international tournament with its own superstars and its own high-profile battles - bobby fischer was a cold war hero in his own way, after all
i think that's gonna be my comeback whenever this topic comes up around me, haha. "chess isn't in the olympics and they don't have a complex about it."
Princess Emily
: I'm pretty glad you commented with this. Like I said, I remember hearing an argument about it a while back, but I wasn't sure how widespread it was, and assumed it wasn't as big as the gamer e-sport thing
though there is still an interesting conversation to be had about social legitimacy, why groups crave it, and how they go about achieving it, re: games and the Olympics. It just extends beyond gamers.
I will say that I want to see esports get into the Olympics in my lifetime but not American football, just to see them lose their fucking minds about that
no non-athletic game feels valid unless they're an olympic sport, i guess