[Patch 1.0.0.130: Volibear] General Discussion - Page 72

On December 03 2011 05:25 gtrsrs wrote:

is pretty much my argument
this is my plea for you to stop posting (permanently?) for at least a while




to "feature" is to give prominence to. you can't give prominence to everyone. then it wouldn't be a "feature"
in terms of who they picked, how is that not fair? shushei is a manner player on (the best?) a top team in the world that has won many tournaments. again i point to my liquor store analogy. why would we put "Bitch" wine (a real brand) in our center display? that's insulting to our company's image. why would riot in their right minds want to display the game as a bunch of 16-year-old spoiled fucktard ragers when they could pick someone with a distinguished record and attitude?



streamins is PLAYING A FUCKING GAME. IT'S NOT A JOB.


and how they will continue to do so, what's the problem?


ok? what's your point? severity gaming is un-corporate-sponsored and this weekend we're all traveling to a LAN event that is not in any of our own homestates. i'm gonna burn a couple hundred bucks on gas, not to mention equipment, food, team t-shirts (^_^), etc. we might not even win the whole thing and i'll be out a couple hundred bucks.

what's that? i have a 40-hour a week job that allows me to pay to do these things? As do ~92% of american adults? you mean streamers could potentially do other things besides play the game to make money? GASP


you just seem to have this mindset that there are only X viewers possibly available in the world, and any of them switching streams is a tragedy and traitorism to hotshotQQ. i've got some interesting facts for you bro: there are new players playing LoL every day and new people tuning into streams every day. there are people who watch a stream one time and never go back (i've watched hotshot's stream once, i've watched dyrus's stream once. on those two days their viewer count was +1. i've never watched either since. OH NO THEY'RE LOSING MONEY AND VIEWERS FUCKING RIOOOOOOOOOT). when you see hotshot has 7000 viewers, it's not that he has 7000 people that do nothing but watch him all day. you don't seem to understand that people can come and go from streams, which is not a particularly hard concept to grasp.

riot featuring shushei is a way to draw more people into watching streams; especially watching streams of players they want new players to emulate. there's a summoner's code that hotshot pretty much breaks every single rule of on a constant basis. why would riot want to say "hey kids you need to play by the rules... here's a video of one of our best players not playing by the rules and not being punished!"


also you should probably get a job because you have a severely flawed view of "losing money." "losing money" is when your expenses exceed your profits, or your outflow exceeds your income, or you pay a higher value for something than what it is worth. you "lose money" when you buy a new car and drive it off the lot because it instantly depreciates in value and you can never sell it for what you bought it for. you "lose money" when you start a business that costs $1million to start, and then you only make $500,000 in profits in your first year and have to shut down. you "lose money" when you drop your wallet down the sewer and an alligator eats it.

you DON'T "lose money" when you are making $100/day at your lemonade stand and then your neighbor opens up a lemonade stand and you start making $95/day. you are not LOSING $5 a day, you are MAKING $95/day. this is a pretty basic concept. now apply it to hotshot. he pays probably $150/month for internet, and (assuming he didn't get it from sponsors) might have paid $3000 dollars total for his rig. he makes ~$2000 dollars a day or whatever from streaming. if that number gets cut in half, he's not LOSING $1000/day. he's still making $1000/day which is way more than anyone should ever make for being a self-entitled whiny bitch playing a video game. he might be making less but it's still a lot

guess what else? when i leave my house i usually turn on a stream of a viewer i like (smash, kyuubicake, loci, etc). that way i'm "supporting" them without really watching. you know what else? i can open 2 tabs in firefox and "watch" 2 streamers at the same time.

it feels like 90% of the time you just post shit to post. everyone else here thinks about their posts before they hit that big post button. you should try it sometime


PS and what's more, why do you even give any fucks about how many viewers hotshotgg has? how does it effect you in any way? what have you ever done to support any streamer? how much money have you donated to the streamers that you like? isn't that essentially what you're bitching about? that money is being "stolen" from them by riot? so put YOUR money where your mouth is and either (a) stop playing LoL (which supports riot, THE BAD GUYS HERE), or (b) donate to the streamers you like. problem solved and you can feel good about yourself. you constantly say that riot should hire you instead of matt marcou, and while it's true that he's pretty inept, i'm pretty sure riot would cease to exist within 6 months of hiring you