EPTI understand if you don't like it as a game, I just don't understand why you'd rag on Riot for trying to promote it.
League Of Legends going to be added to MLG Raleigh - Page 6
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Zdrastochye
Ivory Coast6262 Posts
I understand if you don't like it as a game, I just don't understand why you'd rag on Riot for trying to promote it. | ||
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Scio
Germany522 Posts
On July 10 2011 08:51 Cel.erity wrote: That's completely false to say the viewership was "inflated". Riot encouraged its players to watch a huge eSports tournament featuring their game, oh no! Vile corruption! They're actually trying to get people interested in competitive gaming! And just so you know, the most popular LoL streamers still get more viewers than the most popular SC2 streamers, without the aid of Riot. Still, objectively, SC2 is and will always be the bigger competitive game. Its fanbase is built around competition, whereas LoL has a bigger fanbase but they are primarily casual. LoL will never overtake SC2 as the main attraction, even if their stream gets more views. SC2 will always have bigger prize money and more name power. Well but isnt that player streaming thing like that because there are just less LoL pros overall who stream their games?? I mean i could be totally wrong but if u add up all the people watching Sc2 pros and compare that number to all the LoL Stream viewers then u should see that Sc2 has way more people watching player streams. Again im not that much into LoL but it seems they just got less players streaming so the viewers concentrate on those few streams. | ||
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taLbuk
Madagascar1879 Posts
People are grateful for nothing these days, especially on the internet. | ||
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G0dly
United States450 Posts
but with competitive LoL in the mix, I may need a third monitor =D | ||
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PandaBlunt
United States292 Posts
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DyEnasTy
United States3720 Posts
On July 10 2011 07:08 Shagg wrote: Sorry just have to say it may have been ok when it was Halo 3 but in Reach the bloom effect makes the gun fights just RNG and makes you either win by spamming and getting lucky over the guy who fired perfectly or the spammer losing the fight. Dont see how that adds any competetive elements to the game :/ thats like comparing a build order win/loss in Starcraft 2. It isnt just about pacing shots or spamming them. Sure that can be the case. But theres a level of talent when/where you choose to engage your opponent. Ive seen amazing players with great DMR control lose a medium range fight to the pistol cause he was in a disadvantageous position but wouldnt/couldnt retreat. | ||
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dicey
142 Posts
On July 10 2011 06:54 Greatness wrote: Played LoL for 10 minutes. Then I deleted the game. Good for you. It takes more than 1for a team-game, which some people tend to forget. Which likely are the same people to say it's a skillless game, because they lack the possibility to (easily) decide the outcome of a match on their own, where 9 other people are involved. Try it for good with friends and realise properly where the skillcap is. Probably most important thing about viewers is not the quantity but the type of viewership. LoL probably will be the game to bring girls to the eSports scene. When was the last time you heard a girl playing SC2, even in a teamgame with other streamers - not to mention pros. Just gonna say it's not rare for LoL. On a similar note, LoL has a massive playerbase in Europe, where nobody is really aware of HoN and from what I can tell, few have played Dota. For an American event, MLG is probably fond of expanding their viewership more. Edit: On July 10 2011 09:26 Scio wrote:Again im not that much into LoL but it seems they just got less players streaming so the viewers concentrate on those few streams. Well you're comparing a more than 10 year-old franchise to a 1 year-old (bit more?) game? Even for that LoL still gets comparable amounts of viewers and is likely to have about the same overall player count, if not higher than SC2. | ||
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
On July 10 2011 09:43 dicey wrote: Good for you. It takes 5 people for a team-game, which some people tend to forget. Which likely are the same people to say it's a skillless game, because they lack the possibility to decide the outcome of a match on their own, where 9 other people are involved. Try it for good with friends and realise properly where the skillcap is. Probably most important thing about viewers is not the quantity but the type of viewership. LoL probably will be the game to bring girls to the eSports scene. When was the last time you heard a girl playing SC2, even in a teamgame with other streamers - not to mention pros. Just gonna say it's not rare for LoL. On a similar note, LoL has a massive playerbase in Europe, where nobody is really aware of HoN and from what I can tell, few have played Dota. For an American event, MLG is probably fond of expanding their viewership more. just an aside on the girl note 60% or so of the SC pro gaming fanbase in korea is girls. It just takes attractive players and time. | ||
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-Cyrus-
United States318 Posts
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
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tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
On July 10 2011 06:54 Greatness wrote: Played LoL for 10 minutes. Then I deleted the game. In those ten minutes, 50 other people started LoL and loved it. It's a good game and probably a better game in its genre than SC2 is in its own. As a spectator game, SC2 is still far more enjoyable but as a game to play, LoL is much more fun than SC2 imo. It is always more fun to win with your friends. If that wasn't true, nobody would ever join guilds in MMOs. | ||
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Chairman Ray
United States11903 Posts
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tyCe
Australia2542 Posts
On July 10 2011 09:44 dacthehork wrote: just an aside on the girl note 60% or so of the SC pro gaming fanbase in korea is girls. It just takes attractive players and time. That's because the pop culture in Korea at the time heavily involved BW, just like how the pop culture in Asian circles these days heavily involves MOBAs like DotA and LoL. | ||
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laugoatse
Germany40 Posts
On July 10 2011 09:43 dicey wrote: Good for you. It takes more than 1for a team-game, which some people tend to forget. Which likely are the same people to say it's a skillless game, because they lack the possibility to (easily) decide the outcome of a match on their own, where 9 other people are involved. Try it for good with friends and realise properly where the skillcap is. Probably most important thing about viewers is not the quantity but the type of viewership. LoL probably will be the game to bring girls to the eSports scene. When was the last time you heard a girl playing SC2, even in a teamgame with other streamers - not to mention pros. Just gonna say it's not rare for LoL. On a similar note, LoL has a massive playerbase in Europe, where nobody is really aware of HoN and from what I can tell, few have played Dota. For an American event, MLG is probably fond of expanding their viewership more. Edit: Well you're comparing a more than 10 year-old franchise to a 1 year-old (bit more?) game? Even for that LoL still gets comparable amounts of viewers and is likely to have about the same overall player count, if not higher than SC2. well it's actually true that LoL is pretty damn easy compared to DotA and/or HoN. the fact that denying is not possible makes me hate this game already. but i guess LoL will attract a huge amount of viewers since it has a lot more players/followers than the other DotA-ish games, and this is great for MLG and esports in general. | ||
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Khaymus
United States750 Posts
I know they want to expand the game base...but YUK | ||
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Grimjaw
178 Posts
Riot have their hearts in the right place, but it goes without saying that hero balance in the game as well other technical aspects are holding it back and they are going to punch themselves in the face when they realize that just maybe that 43rd Teemo skin wasn't the best time investment and it gives more time for DOTA to prepare. | ||
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Leeoku
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On July 10 2011 09:26 Zdrastochye wrote: Are people that insecure about the future of SC2 that they wouldn't want a single viewer to watch LoL when a game of SC2 is going on? Yes. | ||
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Earll
Norway847 Posts
(As a sidenote this was also a pretty big problem for WCG, where players could not be in the teams they usually are in because there were both canadians and americans for example in the team, and WCG works on some sort of nation vs nation sort of thing.) | ||
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Bona Fide
United States70 Posts
[LoL|SC2] is inferior to [DotA|SCBW], I have no idea why it's getting so much attention. I mean, they've basically dumbed down the original and there's no skill involved. Things like [no more creep denying|multiple building select] have made it so easy to be good. And you have things like [Flash|auto-mine] making it so much more forgiving for ADD players. | ||
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