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iloveav
Poland1480 Posts
Blizzard "gained" profit when you bought the game, now it will reduce "costs" if you stop playing it so they can lower their server numbers or migrate them to something that gives profit (WoW comes to mind). Its a different way to make money. In the last year i almost totally moved to free to play games. It just does not seem interesting to buy games that seem to be made for you to get bored of them soon. | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23335 Posts
On March 08 2012 01:02 Thaniri wrote: When I see for IEM that there is 120k viewers for League, and 30k for Starcraft, it sort of bothers me. I know that the viewer count is massively inflated by having it in the client of League, but what is going on? Every friend I have who plays League does not watch competition because it is boring to watch or they would rather play. Yet every Starcraft player from bronze to grandmaster seems to know and care about our pro scene and we pull in 30k viewers. Doesn't it feel like cheating by Riot to have the stream in the client? Because it feels to me that one would log in, go AFK and the viewer count is filled with non-viewers. Or I could be completely full of crap and my friends who play League (ranging from casual to mega tryhard again) are just part of a minority in League. It's simple, fun, free, easy to watch. Chess is much more unpopular than sports likes soccer or basketball. | ||
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HwangjaeTerran
Finland5967 Posts
Well maybe the elitists and hardcore people have truly become a minority on TeamLiquid in the past few years. | ||
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theBALLS
Singapore2935 Posts
On March 08 2012 01:48 matiK23 wrote: I get your point, I guess, but are you really comparing Starcraft to educational documentaries? ok maybe Glee vs Breaking Bad would be a better comparison, but the point is, not many people are able to appreciate more intellectually stimulating entertainment. | ||
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RonNation
United States385 Posts
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MaGariShun
Austria305 Posts
Just look at what numbers fighting games pull and they are considered niche and its pretty much only north america playing them (or at least watching the streams) With HotS that will probably change for a while and everyone will pick up the game again for a few months. LoL on the other hand is a casual game almost everyone plays or has played at some point. It's just natural that it has more viewers. You watch what you can relate to. | ||
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lundell100
Sweden232 Posts
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Crais
Canada2136 Posts
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ZeromuS
Canada13393 Posts
On March 08 2012 01:17 Nikon wrote: So is League of Legends, yet a lot of people get mad at it for no reason, right here on this site. C'est la vie. I don't get mad at it for no reason. I dislike the terrible community at the lower levels for people who are trying to get into the game. Its very difficult to feel like you are improving as well when no matter how well you try to play the individuals who grief the game and feed the enemy make the game much less enjoyable. I know I need to find people to play with but its difficult and thats why I don't really enjoy LoL anywhere near as much as SC2. Even when I was in practice league and bronze I always felt like people were able to be nice and offer help more often than not. I could improve myself and see the fruits of my labour but this is not the case in LoL when others basically ruin the experience. Unfortunately for me its the community in game that made it bothersome. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25558 Posts
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
Same shit can be said about SC2. I find it boring to play and to watch, yet that miserable game has more stream viewers than BW. In my eyes the SC2-BW relationship is equivalent to Dota-LoL: one is original, everybody agrees that is harder and requires larger amount of skill. The other is just a simplified copy (that tries so hard in the wrong way to not be the same), that appeals to the masses and has newer shinier graphics and was made looking to profit on the previous title. Happens that people like different things, some like a game more than others, and apparently more people would rather play and watch LoL than SC2. Deal with it man... Ah, LoL is also free, that helps a lot. Noob-friendly version: More people prefer LoL over SC2, even if in your individual opinion SC2 deserves more viewers. Deal with it. | ||
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RolleMcKnolle
Germany1054 Posts
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
Was it hard to understand? I can simplify the previous post to make it more noob-friendly. | ||
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RolleMcKnolle
Germany1054 Posts
On March 08 2012 01:14 IronMan3 wrote: Because SC2 is not Brood War and it sucks And your tone is not appreciated either. Noone was offensive before u started it | ||
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taitanik
Latvia231 Posts
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UmiNotsuki
United States633 Posts
That, and... well, it was just IEM, right? If I'm not mistaken that's pretty much the biggest event there is for LoL, but if you compared those numbers to OUR biggest even (Code S) then I'd bet it'd be a lot closer. | ||
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Zorkmid
4410 Posts
On March 08 2012 01:02 Thaniri wrote: When I see for IEM that there is 120k viewers for League, and 30k for Starcraft, it sort of bothers me. I know that the viewer count is massively inflated by having it in the client of League, but what is going on? Every friend I have who plays League does not watch competition because it is boring to watch or they would rather play. Yet every Starcraft player from bronze to grandmaster seems to know and care about our pro scene and we pull in 30k viewers. Doesn't it feel like cheating by Riot to have the stream in the client? Because it feels to me that one would log in, go AFK and the viewer count is filled with non-viewers. Or I could be completely full of crap and my friends who play League (ranging from casual to mega tryhard again) are just part of a minority in League. You imagine some sort of SC2 eSport audience volume dominance which doesn't exist. What I bolded is absolutely untrue. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25558 Posts
On March 08 2012 03:34 taitanik wrote: thats like asking in LoL forums doesnt it feel weird that theres viewers who watch starcraft I can't speak for everyone here but I think there are plenty of us who are fans of both-- I think we have a big LoL community here on TL, and if you stop by the teamspeak you'll see people playing. Both are quite fun games :D I would like to see blizzard support esports like riot does-- that would be great. | ||
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EternaLLegacy
United States410 Posts
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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