Det har sedan en tid tillbaka diskuterats om att esport skulle bli en del av Olympiska Spelen, men nu verkar OS-kommittén ha fått kalla fötter. I en intervju med AP säger Thomas Bach, ordförande i OS-kommittén, detta:
“We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination. So-called killer games. They, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot therefore be accepted.”

Bach verkar vara medveten om det aningen motsägelsefulla tankesättet med spel då man redan tävlar i diverse våldsamma sporter under OS och säger även detta:
“Of course every combat sport has its origins in a real fight among people. But sport is the civilized expression about this. If you have egames where it’s about killing somebody, this cannot be brought into line with our Olympic values.”