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Why does every thread that mentions LoL NEED to turn into a LoL vs HoN vs Dota2 thread? Seriously, cut it out.
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On August 16 2011 00:46 ondema wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2011 00:37 Logo wrote:On August 16 2011 00:31 Mikejonez wrote:
I am glad that Riot is supporting their title and esports in general with some serious $$, setting the bar high...
Very cool that a free-to-play business model can afford expenditures like that Actually I find it incredibly sickening. If they have $5mil laying around then it's because they've milked so much money from their customers through runes, new heroes, ip/xp boosts, and other grinding elements that they have a ton of disposable income. Lol is actually one of the most expensive games on the market, but people are just so easily fooled by F2P or willing to grind that they overlook the costs. Personally no matter how big it gets I won't watch or support LoL competition because I really really don't like their style of F2P. HoN's I don't like either, but I find it more acceptable given that a free account playing a free hero is the same as a legacy account playing the same hero right from the start. Is it not a good thing that they are willing to give 5 million of the money that they have "milked" from the players back to them through having a robust season? The concept of F2P didn't start with LoL and it won't end with it. Judging a game based on its model is a pretty flawed view. The real issue is LoL's priorities lie with the casual players as they've openly stated over and over. No replays, pause and spectator mode make the game a joke competitively and if they don't add them soon (i.e. significantly before the release of DotA2) LoL will be completely forgotten as a competitive esport.
I don't get why people are so upset about Riot "milking" customers, and giving back to the community. Let's be honest, it's a business, they just happen to want people to play their game, if people like the game they can spend $$$ on it, if not they can walk away. Of course Riot wants to make money, I'm sure they are super super happy with the success.
If I made a new hero every 2 weeks, and that hero guaranteed me so much $$$, not sure on number, why would i ever stop doing it. Also the number of heroes is not super high yet, both Hon and Dota have lots of heroes.
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I'll stick by the fact that you have a sub-forum. You should use it if you don't want threads like this.
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somewhat related:
dota2 isnt publicly released yet right? and theres a dota2 tournament already??
someone enlighten me please :/
watching LoL tournaments is actually pretty entertaining..looking forward tos eason 2!
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I understand that some people don't like the game, but the comments in these LoL threads always make me wonder if a lot of you guys were abused by RIOT when you were children or something.
Did they run over your dog? What has the game done to warrant so much hate?
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On August 15 2011 22:39 Goshawk. wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 22:37 Senx wrote:
Silly people thinking valve were actually going to outdo riot games in the esport department.. I dont think people realize how much spare money this company has to throw around.
GG no re valve. Valve has 1 million in one tournament Riot has 5 million over a year over a world wide LoL scene.
LoL is bigger than basically all Valve games put together currently.. The point is, this is good for esports, so it is worthy effort by riot.
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SO MUCH MONEY OMFG
why can't sc2 have this type of monetary support :<
good to see all around though
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This news is good for Esports so I see absolutely no problem with it.
Plus, from my experience, Riot is quite efficient when it comes down to help Esports. I ran a LoL tournament 5 months ago, i mean a little tournament, then i contacted them to help me having a prize pool and they almost instantly gave me some Riot Points (== LoL money) to spare for my prize pool.
So I hope the best for LoL, as I hope the best for HoN and Dota2, after all, it's all good.
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WELP, guess it's time to start playin' ranked games and get a team going.
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what I want to know is when will season 2 actually start
it's been "about to start" since the end of sc2 season 1
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On August 16 2011 01:31 Klaca wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 22:39 Goshawk. wrote:On August 15 2011 22:37 Senx wrote:
Silly people thinking valve were actually going to outdo riot games in the esport department.. I dont think people realize how much spare money this company has to throw around.
GG no re valve. Valve has 1 million in one tournament Riot has 5 million over a year over a world wide LoL scene. LoL is bigger than basically all Valve games put together currently.. The point is, this is good for esports, so it is worthy effort by riot.
please be a troll, please be a troll, please be a troll *troll baited*
CS Series, HL Series, Portal Series, L4D Series, TF Series
Wait, bigger how, eSports wise? Because 1.6 is still going strong, not to mention once CS: Global Offensive is ready for retail things are going to go haywire.
I think that we should thank Riot for contributing this to the eSports community with a small smile and just walk away. This news is of little to no relevance to Valve.
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On August 16 2011 00:46 Judicator wrote:
Uh future for HoN and LoL which are 2nd tier (don't even bothering trying to argue this, they both had chances to take over as THE title for the genre but haven't) games maybe.
LoL is 1st tier. It has taken over. HoN is a sinking ship, and anyone who thinks they're on the same level in terms of a future is a delusional fanboy. To think that LoL won't compete with DotA2 at all is just stupid because LoL has the MOBA market by the balls right now.
On August 16 2011 00:46 Judicator wrote:
Let me ask you something, how dynamic is LoL metagame at highly organized and competitive levels?
It's a game that constantly gets patched so it fluctuates. It's feeling a bit stale right now, but as much shit as people give Riot's balance team, I actually have faith in them to pull it together and fix the problems that are currently plaguing to the game as they have managed to do this several times in the past when we were plagued by different shitty metagame shifts. Hopefully the addition of DotA 2 will light a fire under their ass to settle down on the new feature development and focus on having a stable and deep competitive metagame, but it's also silly to think that top level play is fully optimize right now when people aren't driven to create new strategies by tournaments that are worth the time to figure out how to break what everyone else is doing.
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i wanna see this money actally get paid out....
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On August 16 2011 01:42 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:
what I want to know is when will season 2 actually start
it's been "about to start" since the end of sc2 season 1
Apparently End of August. So not long to go. After PAX?
Big patches coming up soon, with Dominion to start aswell with season 2. i think...
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Wow, just WOW!
That's a lot of money !
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On August 16 2011 01:46 Gantzie wrote:Show nested quote +On August 16 2011 01:42 KiLL_ORdeR wrote:
what I want to know is when will season 2 actually start
it's been "about to start" since the end of sc2 season 1 Apparently End of August. So not long to go. After PAX? Big patches coming up soon, with Dominion to start aswell with season 2. i think...
Yeah. Officially, it's end of this month. Riot still wants to do their fair share of publicity tease at Gamescon and PAX before shutting S1/starting S2.
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I'm still confused on why everyone is so goddamn sure DotA2 is going to be such hot shit. There already was a DotA remake, which was/is a moderate success. Why should DotA2 be any different?
Is it just because Icefrog is developing it? Equating a single developer with awesomeness doesn't hold water in my book.
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On August 16 2011 00:46 NeoIllusions wrote:
Isn't DotA2 expected to be f2p as well...?
Is Valve following Riot's shitty business model then?
i seriously hope this isnt the case. Playing HoN pre and post free to play there have been a serious increase of people trolling and ruining games as they have unlimited accounts since free to play was implemented. Especially in a MOBA game where it only takes 1 person to trap you in a ruined game for an hour.
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I totally respect riot for putting money up for esports. I just think their game is for scrubs.
It's a very expensive way to keep the competitive scene of LoL at full strength, I just hope it pays off for them.
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