> Football also has the advantage of a fixed rule set.
I'd tend to agree that video games are ensuring they can never stick around by constantly throwing the rules in the garbage.
But if you're going to claim that soccer is 2000 years old, you can't also claim that it has a fixed rule set. It changes at a slower pace. The slower pace of change is an improvement over video games. But it still changes. There is not even continuity between an attested 2000-year-old game and soccer.
I'd tend to agree that video games are ensuring they can never stick around by constantly throwing the rules in the garbage.
But if you're going to claim that soccer is 2000 years old, you can't also claim that it has a fixed rule set. It changes at a slower pace. The slower pace of change is an improvement over video games. But it still changes. There is not even continuity between an attested 2000-year-old game and soccer.