EPTIt made a rather casual game like Dota even more casual.
But oh well to each their own i guess
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mdma-_-
Nauru1213 Posts
It made a rather casual game like Dota even more casual. But oh well to each their own i guess | ||
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Perkins1752
Germany214 Posts
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Sycrus
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:36 mdma-_- wrote: I never got how LoL ever got popular. It made a rather casual game like Dota even more casual. But oh well to each their own i guess Dota's actually everything but casual... Wow, the posters on this thread. It's like SCBW should be the only game in the world. EDIT: And to all haters hope you saw that | ||
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Phenny
Australia1435 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:36 mdma-_- wrote: I never got how LoL ever got popular. It made a rather casual game like Dota even more casual. But oh well to each their own i guess DoTA / HoN have rather high learning curves, LoL altered the game to remove a fairly significant part of that which drew in a lot of casual players/fans. As much as I dislike LoL as a game for this reason, I still love that it is broadening esports. | ||
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Acritter
Syria7637 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:36 mdma-_- wrote: I never got how LoL ever got popular. It made a rather casual game like Dota even more casual. But oh well to each their own i guess Some people like casual. Everyone you're gonna meet on TL is pretty intense, so it's a kind of alien perspective to us, but there are a lot of people that just enjoy dicking around when they play games. I have a bunch of friends who play LoL, and I know that if I played the game and took it seriously I could crush them in it (just like I crush them in every game I take seriously), but I don't because it's not worth my time. They have fun messing around, though, and I respect that attitude towards play. Now I feel kind of bad, because every time I mix with casuals in games I tend to kill the game for them. | ||
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Novalisk
Israel1818 Posts
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Angra
United States2652 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:36 mdma-_- wrote: I never got how LoL ever got popular. It made a rather casual game like Dota even more casual. But oh well to each their own i guess They advertised it as a free game and have a pretty good marketing strategy, of course it's going to be insanely popular as a "free" game. :p Imagine how much more popular SC2 would be if you could download and play it online for free. | ||
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Tachion
Canada8573 Posts
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Woony
Germany6657 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:46 Novalisk wrote: I love LoL, but something's definitely fishy about that viewer count. It's not fishy... Riot's videos get like 1,5 million hits in two days. LoL had 70k+ viewers before... | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
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PrimeTimey
Canada369 Posts
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Enox
Germany1667 Posts
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Tomken
Norway1144 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:55 Woony wrote: It's not fishy... Riot's videos get like 1,5 million hits in two days. LoL had 70k+ viewers before... ..... Of course it's fishy when their new youtube vids get instant 300k in one hour. | ||
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Woony
Germany6657 Posts
On June 18 2011 22:00 Tomken wrote: ..... Of course it's fishy when their new youtube vids get instant 300k in one hour. Because you can cheat youtube viewer numbers as a third party company?? | ||
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hifriend
China7935 Posts
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:58 PrimeTimey wrote: They have the stream embed on their website, their website traffic hits are ridiculous: Alexa Traffic Rank Reputation Global 1,640 -- with that said, just because they have tons of people watching from an embed on their website doesn't make the game a legitimate eSport. I can't watch this stream for more than two minutes. The approval of teamliquid.net poster PrimeTimey is what qualifies games as legitimate ESPORTS | ||
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PrimeTimey
Canada369 Posts
On June 18 2011 22:01 hifriend wrote: um LoL, cs 1.6, css, quake always get a lot more viewers than sc2 CS - No CSS - No Quake - No | ||
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PrimeTimey
Canada369 Posts
On June 18 2011 22:01 floor exercise wrote: The approval of teamliquid.net poster PrimeTimey is what qualifies games as legitimate ESPORTS The game is casual, its free to play, very few professional organizations sponsor League of Legends teams, the game has no online events and very few LAN events. Just because you can get tons of people turning into a stream doesn't legitimize anything. *Edit: Never mind the fact the game doesn't even have a spectator mode so you can't watch games be played -- how can that be considered an eSports title? | ||
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Woony
Germany6657 Posts
On June 18 2011 21:58 PrimeTimey wrote: They have the stream embed on their website, their website traffic hits are ridiculous: Alexa Traffic Rank Reputation Global 1,640 -- with that said, just because they have tons of people watching from an embed on their website doesn't make the game a legitimate eSport. I can't watch this stream for more than two minutes. It's not on autoplay so you have to actually watch it to count as a viewer. Also your opinion matters fuck about whether a game is a a 'legitimate eSport'. You don't like a game and abuse the E-sports term to act like your dislike has any objective background. What the hell is 'E-Sport' anyways? E-sport is good people playing a game and getting paid for it and people watching these good players play. Everything else is subjective bullshit. | ||
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