EPTI Don't Understand the Viewer Count for LoL - Page 5
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Randomaccount#77123
United States5003 Posts
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MooMooMugi
United States10531 Posts
It's simply a more popular game with a relatively low skill cap | ||
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
On March 11 2012 02:14 MooMooMugi wrote: Was 260k+ at the last IEM tourny at Kiev It's simply a more popular game with a relatively low skill cap it's also a much more global game than SC2 LoL penetration into markets like Asia are much deeper than SC2's due to LoL being F2P and LoL being a less intimidating game to play than SC2 | ||
JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
We got 260k for Hanover too. Too bad we couldn't get to 333,333 for Carmac to do a cosplay at the next IEM. | ||
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FoeHamr
United States489 Posts
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Thaniri
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Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
On March 11 2012 05:26 Megaliskuu wrote: Do players streaming LoL get a ton of viewers? Or is it just these events. The most popular LoL streams (maybe 5-10) average 10-20k and they're on pretty much everyday. There are maybe around another 10-20 streamers with ~1-3k viewers? As to the difference between IEM and IPL, I think it's due to a European influence. There is a large playerbase in EU and the IPL events so far have been NA only. We'll see how well IPL4 does since there is 1 EU team playing there. Today's IPL event is also a small showmatch with very little advertising (compared to Liquid playing in TB's tournament). | ||
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Sovern
United States312 Posts
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NonFactor
Sweden698 Posts
And OP, you are kidding yourself if you think being logged in to the client counts a view. This is a myth created by bitter / butthurt Dota/SC2 players. Also, the stuff about European influence is also true. IEM had teams from NA, EU and even Asia, obviously making it more popular than IPL. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25551 Posts
On March 11 2012 07:43 NonFactor wrote: And OP, you are kidding yourself if you think being logged in to the client counts a view. I'd actually like to see blizz have an embedded-in-the-client stream thing like what R1CH has set up here: http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/R1CH/NydusNetwork/ Just because it would give exposure to tournaments and streamers. Even if it wouldn't count for "views", it'd increase the interest in esports. That's something I think Riot does very well-- it's a smart company. | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
why is it bad to have more people interested in observing professional level gaming? it doesn't matter what game it is when people all over the world are being exposed to the professional esports scene. it should also be noted that for the regular daily player streams, riot also goes out of their way to promote some of the streamers as "featured streamers" for a few weeks at a time. the featured players attract 5-6 times the number of viewers they got before being featured by riot. | ||
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xuanzue
Colombia1747 Posts
i said it because in the last 2 weeks we had seen MLG arena, ASUS, GSL finals, and IEM, then maybe people is just oversaturated, meanwhile that lol tournament is any kind of event that is not seen often. | ||
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JBright
Vancouver14381 Posts
On March 11 2012 10:16 xuanzue wrote: when was the last 'LoL' major tournament? i said it because in the last 2 weeks we had seen MLG arena, ASUS, GSL finals, and IEM, then maybe people is just oversaturated, meanwhile that lol tournament is any kind of event that is not seen often. Officially, the last major LAN event for LoL was the OGN Invitational in February but there were only 2 international teams (CLG and World Elite). The last truly international LAN would be IEM Kiev while the last major NA and EU tournament were Curse Invitational (Feb 11-25) and Kings of Europe (Jan 28-31), respectively. | ||
NeoIllusions
United States37500 Posts
Then next one is IPL4. LoL definitely does not have the frequency of tournaments like SC2 does. Edit: JBright ninjas. Last online was Curse LoL Invitational. | ||
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RoboBob
United States798 Posts
I think a lot of it comes down to Riot's awesome marketing. Its obvious that online gaming is transitioning away from big box products towards microtransactions. Blizzard dropped the ball on that one, but it will get a shot in the arm after each expansion comes out. Another thing that helps LoL is that even though its a tough game to spectate, they put a TON of effort into their spectator mode to minimize that pain as much as possible. | ||
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mrGRAPE
Singapore293 Posts
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
Nobody in their right mind would disagree with me when I say that unfortunately, there are more Snookies than Newtons. | ||
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ImDrizzt
Norway427 Posts
On March 08 2012 01:37 theBALLS wrote: Why do more people watch Jersey Shore than an Attenborough documentary? LoL!! | ||
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ImDrizzt
Norway427 Posts
Maybe that helps as well, sc makes you feel x10 worse or something lol | ||
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