FOOTSIES is a game about developing a neutral game.
With so many sliding into my dm's to find out what I think about "Sony" buying EVO I will eschew my Punxsutawney Phil style of posting to directly respond to the question here and get it out of the way.
"I wish Riot games luck with this strat."
Let me explain, Sony buying EVO is calm, it's fine. Sony has actually been in bed with EVO since a bit after it was a small thing in Folsom called "Battle of the Bay." The only people facing an existential crisis over Sony's involvement are other game companies with fighting games. That awkward moment when your opp becomes your boss. Except for Nintendo, their game is infested with child molestors (come on, we gotta talk about it at some point), for them, this is the way out.
The real news here is the other new owner of EVO, "RTS." Don't bother looking RTS up, it doesn't actually exist outside of name. It's simply a shell company for a talent agency called "Endeavor," which is also a shell company for William-Morris, the biggest talent agency in Hollywood.
Ok, so why would a Hollywood agency buy stock in the poorest, grimiest, most ratchet corner of gaming? Surely there are more lucrative options than the hive of scum and villainy that is the FGC. Fortnite prints money, so does League of Legends, why not invest in those. That's the thing tho, they just did.
You won't find this news in the news but "RTS" also has a major stake in Riot games (peep the oh so subtle hint in the acronym of "RTS,") who also just so happen to have a fighting game in development.
And it's all happening to solve the problem all dare not speak:
That gaming is segregated.
One side refers to themselves as the "PC Master Race" the other is openly referred to as "Ghetto Games." Any game that tries to put a group of people who enjoy saying racist things in a room with people who enjoy beating up people who say racist things is DOA, in more ways than one. So what do?
Well, if you have enough money you buy the largest event you can find, control the narrative by announcing you are "cleaning it up" by kicking out the "undesirables," and throwing money at those you decide are valuable to preform and keep the others in line. Old school gentrification, with a 21'st century digital twist. Same old playbook. Yawn.
But this is the important part to remember, these corps are bad guys, but not "the" bad guy. This is all happening because "Mr. Wizard" misused his power to prey on children, and lost his land. This cancer of abuse in the community is the "bad guy," and will be until it's gone. If this development helps, i'm more than ok with it. Fuck the old ways.
Anyway, that's my two-bits, now leave me alone. And yes I know you think it's all tin foil bullshit but it's been ten years of you being confidently wrong yet here we are, so help me help you understand it's not about you and I'm not Bagger Vance. Rip TB Rip TC Rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
