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LoL takes #1 E-sport spot in Korea - Page 28
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Opeasy
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lichter
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
Good for LoL that it is doing great. Hopefully it will continue to do so and act as a gateway for other people to watch even more games. | ||
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rabidch
United States20288 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:44 Fionn wrote: Well that's a pretty gigantic mis-translation by Kotaku. Again, this just makes the article even more unfounded. LoL is the more popular game, but e-sport? Who knows. I want to see actual ratings from the OGN shows and see if the thousands of fans continue showing up to the games. I want to see the LoL players and teams get fanclubs/supporters such as Brood War and even SC2 has in Korea. The article itself is a bad piece of writing that mis-translated the main freaking point it was trying to make. The reason it's the #1 e-sport in Korea is because of the gigantic prize pool and the guy who wrote the article was off by a $1,500,000 dollars. That's not to say it won't be very soon because it's obvious it is damn popular in PC Bangs, but the article really doesn't say anything new and the only point it does make is wrong. that's kind of funny... well it is an opinion piece | ||
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LlamaNamedOsama
United States1900 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:38 Fawkes wrote: yeah man...like not good...right? why the hell is it not good for esports? just because the game you favour isn't #1 anymore? In my view, I think it's problematic that a game like LoL would be the frontrunner of e-sports because it has less appeal to those outside of gaming. Sure, LoL has a larger casual player fanbase, but the credibility of esports in expansion is its ability to reach beyond the player-base into the broader mainstream population. Starcraft is just better as a spectator sport. Many LoL players I know readily acknowledge that it's not really interesting to watch. For one, the basic concept of two armies, resources, and destruction of opposing armies in SC2 is incredibly intuitive, whereas the AOS (or MOBA, but I refer the old WC3 terminology :3) notion of "lanes" of automatically spawning creep, towers, and champions is not so intuitive. Second, Starcraft is just better at visually representing skill. Whether it is an incredibly marine split, or even the sheer speed of FPVODs, it is much more distinguishable to the ordinary person. Third, LoL encounters the same issues of CS in its 5v5 formatting, where its difficult to truly observe all the happenings in a game where there are often 10 multiple different instances of players that compose the overall game. [Edit]: lol at the failure of the kotaku article, where having the largest singular instance of cash prize suddenly makes something the biggest esport... | ||
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Zerksys
United States569 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:25 DwD wrote: Source for Dota2 not going to be free to play? I'm pretty sure they haven't said anything? Yeah you're right actually. I don't know that it will not be free to play. Sorry I was mistake, but if you go look at a bunch of dota 2 forums, many people are saying that it will probably not be free to play upon release. | ||
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Dark_Chill
Canada3353 Posts
On March 14 2012 20:37 Aunvilgod wrote: If I got it right in LoL you just control one charakter? This game is supposed to be challenging? Okay, was reading through, saw this comment. Not sure if anyone else responded to this yet, but anyways: This just in, ssbm is a games that offers no challenge because you only control one character (facepalm x10) | ||
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TwilightStar
United States649 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:41 Two_DoWn wrote: Because if you play enough games you hit your true rating. LoL players have a concept of "Elo Hell" where they think they are the greatest thing sinced sliced bread and the only reason they are not 2k Elo is because they constantly get players who are terrible. Trust me, it doesnt work like that. There are hundreds of examples of players deliberatly tanking their rating then going straight back to it. From my experiences in Solo Queue, in 50% of the games, I'll get a team that I can work with, but in the other 50%, my team feeds, regardless of what I am able to do to assist them,. | ||
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daemir
Finland8662 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:46 Wuiph wrote: The last LoL tournament was won by a team being undefeated. I guess it had been incredible luck because even casuals reach the low skill ceiling of this game? Not only that, but the previous offline tournament (IEM Kiev) they only dropped a map and that was in the finals... 16-1 run in 2 consecutive IEMs. | ||
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Pulselol
Canada1628 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:49 Dark_Chill wrote: Okay, was reading through, saw this comment. Not sure if anyone else responded to this yet, but anyways: This just in, ssbm is a games that offers no challenge because you only control one character (facepalm x10) Also: You control only 1 character in every FPS game, does this make every FPS incredibly easy as well? Sometimes I swear people don't think when they post on these forums. | ||
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daemir
Finland8662 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:50 TwilightStar wrote: From my experiences in Solo Queue, in 50% of the games, I'll get a team that I can work with, but in the other 50%, my team feeds, regardless of what I am able to do to assist them,. And the true pros like SaintVicious was dropped to 0 ELO and carried his way back to 2k+ because he simply is that good. He managed to get teams working with him and he is just a fantastic player that was able to carry 4 people on his back through what other's would call "elo hell" where you are always the amazing star but the team drags you down harr harr. | ||
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unnar
Iceland211 Posts
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Bladeorade
United States1898 Posts
I was high master SC2 and am only 1500 in LoL and I switched over in September. There is far more to LoL than mechanics and being good at one game does not necessarily translate to the next. I hope LoL becomes the new game it is far more fun and interesting than SC2 | ||
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0kz
Italy1118 Posts
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HivMagnus
Sweden18 Posts
If lol is like soccer, Starcraft is like Tennis. Its impossible to tell what sport or game that is hardest It´s very indvidual. | ||
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Two_DoWn
United States13684 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:53 daemir wrote: And the true pros like SaintVicious was dropped to 0 ELO and carried his way back to 2k+ because he simply is that good. He managed to get teams working with him and he is just a fantastic player that was able to carry 4 people on his back through what other's would call "elo hell" where you are always the amazing star but the team drags you down harr harr. Actually he just went Sword of the Divine and Leviathan every game, no communication needed. He won like 5 straight games when his team had a leave as well. He didnt have to communicate, he just straight bossed people. Still remains the single greatest stream experience there has ever been. I was so sad when they fixed his Elo | ||
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Kznn
Brazil9072 Posts
Yes, Riot does everthing right. They support their game with stream links on the front page of the game, tournament support, player support. but..but... it just doesn't feel right.. I'm just sad. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:47 LlamaNamedOsama wrote: In my view, I think it's problematic that a game like SC2 would be the frontrunner of e-sports because it has less appeal to those outside of gaming. Sure, SC2 has a larger casual player fanbase, but the credibility of esports in expansion is its ability to reach beyond the player-base into the broader mainstream population. BW is just better as a spectator sport. Many SC2 players I know readily acknowledge that it's not really interesting to watch. For one, the basic concept of two armies, resources, and destruction of opposing armies in BW is incredibly intuitive, whereas SC2 is bad. Second, BW is just better at visually representing skill. Whether it is an incredibly marine split, or even the sheer speed of FPVODs, it is much more distinguishable to the ordinary person. Third, SC2 is bad. [Edit]: lol at the failure of the kotaku article, where having the largest singular instance of cash prize suddenly makes something the biggest esport... Fix'd. See? I can turn any vague and unconvincing argument by just replacing a few words and a sentence. \o/ | ||
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Ho0ps
United Kingdom216 Posts
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Wildmoon
Thailand4189 Posts
On March 15 2012 00:54 Bladeorade wrote: I think it's funny people saying LoL is easier than SC2 while SC2 is one of the easiest competitive games. I was high master SC2 and am only 1500 in LoL and I switched over in September. There is far more to LoL than mechanics and being good at one game does not necessarily translate to the next. I hope LoL becomes the new game it is far more fun and interesting than SC2 Other than BW I don't know what game is harder than SC2 and being high master doesn't mean you are that good at SC2 at all. | ||
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couches
618 Posts
E-sports. You're rocking your own boat complaining about it. | ||
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