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I think that’s not seeing the forest for the trees. There’s nothing special about Fortnite. It’s in fashion and it will pass out of fashion. When auto racing,
by cgriswald 6y ago
I think that’s not seeing the forest for the trees. There’s nothing special about Fortnite. It’s in fashion and it will pass out of fashion.
When auto racing, chess, or any other number of long-lived competitive not-primarily-physical activities are in the Olympics then we can start thinking about video games. And then we ought to think about the games which have lasted a long time as competitive activities on their own while consistently bringing in new blood. Fortnite is a flash in the pan compared to, say, CounterStrike. I think, maybe 50 years from now, after some very physical VR game takes the world by storm in the next couple of decades and demonstrates staying power, we’ll have a serious contender.
We JUST got skateboarding...
- chrisseaton 6y agoI thought the problem was that there 'you can't have records'? When we point out many events have no records, now the problem is something else? Seems like you're just picking whatever out of the air to object to it. If we want a sport to be extant for a hundred years before it's considered (seems pretty reasonable to me), why not explicitly say that rather than looking for proxies?