I appreciate your fair view on this topic in some parts, and I can assure you that even the crown prince himself loves video games. see here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ILklFSD5iXw
So even now in Saudi we start hearing about new companies and Saudi games coming to Steam this year. So it is not an attempt to polish Saudi Arabia's image and its human rights record. And, just like in the World Cup in Qatar, they prohibited drinking alcoholic beverages during the game matches, and everybody was happy, even considering one of the safest World Cups ever for women and fans in general. About the rainbow, we see even in the USA and many other countries, a lot of people refuse to force these rainbow agendas on their people and their children, so trying to make it a human rights issue is ridiculous. It's simply respecting other countries' religions and cultures.
And Concord failure is not far from remembering and many other games that force their rainbow agendas on players, and if you can't see these games and why they failed, I don't know what to say.
If you just realize that we are a young population and as you said, about 75% of Saudi people are 35 and under so it's not strange to see the World Cup for gamers in an event like Riyadh season.
About the Newcastle accusation, the latest numbers show that Saudi making a lot of money by investing in football. So it's real investing, not polishing Saudi image.
This is why I beleive in our forign minister when he said: if Saudi arabia did anything, people go skeptical about it and have to critisize it, it's damn if you do, damn if you don't. So we will do what we see is right and what represents us.
I appreciate your fair view on this topic in some parts, and I can assure you that even the crown prince himself loves video games. see here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ILklFSD5iXw
So even now in Saudi we start hearing about new companies and Saudi games coming to Steam this year. So it is not an attempt to polish Saudi Arabia's image and its human rights record. And, just like in the World Cup in Qatar, they prohibited drinking alcoholic beverages during the game matches, and everybody was happy, even considering one of the safest World Cups ever for women and fans in general. About the rainbow, we see even in the USA and many other countries, a lot of people refuse to force these rainbow agendas on their people and their children, so trying to make it a human rights issue is ridiculous. It's simply respecting other countries' religions and cultures.
And Concord failure is not far from remembering and many other games that force their rainbow agendas on players, and if you can't see these games and why they failed, I don't know what to say.
If you just realize that we are a young population and as you said, about 75% of Saudi people are 35 and under so it's not strange to see the World Cup for gamers in an event like Riyadh season.
About the Newcastle accusation, the latest numbers show that Saudi making a lot of money by investing in football. So it's real investing, not polishing Saudi image.
This is why I beleive in our forign minister when he said: if Saudi arabia did anything, people go skeptical about it and have to critisize it, it's damn if you do, damn if you don't. So we will do what we see is right and what represents us.
Thank you George
Rami Almalki
Saudi Arabia
Good summary of the situation. Thanks
Interesting write up, I had never heard of this tournament before