INTERVIEW – Fabien “Neo” Devide, the boss of the largest French e-sports club, took the time to draw up – for Le Figaro – an exhaustive picture of his discipline.
From an economic point of view, what is your view of the situation of esports today, as well as its recent evolution?
Fabien Devide: I think the observation is pretty much the same as a year ago. The new development is the Gulf countries that are starting to position themselves in the sector, as they do in almost all major disciplines. I think that today, there is a big desire and a strong appetite for soft power that is pushing these countries to invest massively. I think that this is perhaps what is changing the landscape a little and giving it another perspective. Afterwards, I think that it is still a somewhat immature business, outside of the best teams in the world. That is to say that there are always clubs that disappear, that access to funds is more and more limited. But game publishers understand this and are setting up other sources of income, levers that are more and more stable. On some games, we also have…
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