League of Legends season 2 $5 million Prize pool - Page 3

On August 15 2011 23:00 klops wrote:


that has nothing to do with what i said. not to mention i know because i watched it.

i'm saying if they have as much money as we now think they do, where is a non 3rd party spectator mode?

On August 15 2011 23:01 Essbee wrote:
lol at people speaking about graphics. If anything, League of legends has the type of graphics where you can see what's going on compared to HoN for example. Imo LoL graphics are the best for all the games of this style (and all the games for that matter).

Seriously graphics making a game? Brood war? StarCraft 2 on low? LoL? Quake and CS 1.6? These are not games with ground-breaking graphics and still are the most popular. Graphics are for kids (or teens), no offense but veteran gamers knows that graphics doesn't matter. It's all about the gameplay. I seriously never played a bad game and pretend to have fun just because of the graphics. Sorry but that makes no sense.

On August 15 2011 23:04 Muki wrote:
Valve threw out 1 000 000 $ just to build some hype. They probably didn't intend to set a new trend.

Riot on the other hand is so nervous about DotA 2, they think throwing more money at a tournament means it'll make their game better. It's obvious DotA 2 will offer a better experience, and they don't realise it's not primarily the prizepool that matters but how well they organize the community.

While Blizzard hasn't been very active either, the SC2 community for example is very autonomous and built it's esports scene pretty much from the ground up, without 1 mil $ tournaments, and see, the competitive scene and it's followers' spirit are great.

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.

On August 15 2011 23:01 PrideNeverDie wrote:
5 million dollars
no pause button so matches are decided by disconnects

On August 15 2011 23:01 Essbee wrote:
lol at people speaking about graphics. If anything, League of legends has the type of graphics where you can see what's going on compared to HoN for example. Imo LoL graphics are the best for all the games of this style (and all the games for that matter).

Seriously graphics making a game? Brood war? StarCraft 2 on low? LoL? Quake and CS 1.6? These are not games with ground-breaking graphics and still are the most popular. Graphics are for kids (or teens), no offense but veteran gamers knows that graphics doesn't matter. It's all about the gameplay. I seriously never played a bad game and pretend to have fun just because of the graphics. Sorry but that makes no sense.

On August 15 2011 23:17 Jakkerr wrote:
I don't think Riot should be scared of Dota2 at all.
The game is probably gonna cost ~$50USD, I dunno about you guys but I'm not gonna pay that money for a MOBA game, we all saw what happened to HoN who pretty much did the same.
Also the leaked screenshots of Dota2 don't look impressive at all.
But i'll draw my conclusions after the tourney this week.

On August 15 2011 23:19 Cevari wrote:
I'm curious, does LoL have any kind of tournament scene outside these events directly sponsored by the developer and if it does what kind of money moves in those tournaments? Just wondering because despite how enormous $5 million in prizes is, it's not actually in a different scale of magnitude when compared to the entire sc2 competetive scene since release. A very fast guesstimate derived from sc2earnings.com would put the total prize money distributed in sc2 competetions over this past year and a bit at somewhere around $2 million. And there's no reason to believe that figure won't go higher this coming year imo.

The sc2 scene is just extremely different in structure. I expect Riot to be organising more events than in the past but it feels like they're still keeping the numbers relatively low, so what I see happening is a lot more centralised scene with the top teams competing at pretty much every event, instead of the extremely decentralised sc2 scene. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up for debate, though for the spectator it's probably a good thing since it limits tournament overflow and creates storylines that are relatively easy to keep track of. From a business point of view I can't imagine it's a good thing the entire scene is sustained by the developer though. Afaik Blizzard accounts for a fairly marginal piece of the sc2 prize money pie at least for now, with almost all of the money coming from sponsors. This seems the better option to me.