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United States37500 Posts
On October 18 2012 04:52 TheKefka wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:47 NeoIllusions wrote:On October 18 2012 04:36 GoShox wrote:We had something like a PC bang open up here where I live at in America, but it costs $5 per hour.  It's a neat place but it just adds up over time. Really excited for the future of LoL  "pc bang" in America just doesn't work, lol. The pricing is not exactly appealing to gamers. I'd much rather setup a LAN at a friend's place, etc. It's funny how we refer to them as LANs still just for the heck of it heh
Technically, it is a LAN. We'd all have to log into PvP.net obviously since there is no LAN client.
On October 18 2012 05:01 Antyee wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene? http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=374749
Pro Scene sticky halps too. >_>
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On October 18 2012 04:34 tylervoss4 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:18 VoidMaster wrote: Great to hear you are liking LoL :D. Just curious, how much does an hour of gaming cost in ''Pc bangs''? I ask this becouse here we do have something similar and an hour is about 1.50 $ and 5.5$ for 6 hours. pc bang is like $1 /hr and cheaper if you buy bulk hour in your pc bang card. but srsly, it doesnt matter its so cheap. anyoen can afford it in korea, since its so accesible lol. these pc bangs make money from drinks/cup noodles and various snacks.
Well that would explain how LoL became so popular. Being a free game (ok i spent like 200$ for skins), having friends play it, a big tournament like S2 finals breaking records, and on top of that the service pc bangs provide there, I'm really excited to see how big it can actualy become.
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On October 18 2012 05:04 VoidMaster wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:34 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:18 VoidMaster wrote: Great to hear you are liking LoL :D. Just curious, how much does an hour of gaming cost in ''Pc bangs''? I ask this becouse here we do have something similar and an hour is about 1.50 $ and 5.5$ for 6 hours. pc bang is like $1 /hr and cheaper if you buy bulk hour in your pc bang card. but srsly, it doesnt matter its so cheap. anyoen can afford it in korea, since its so accesible lol. these pc bangs make money from drinks/cup noodles and various snacks. Well that would explain how LoL became so popular. Being a free game (ok i spent like 200$ for skins), having friends play it, a big tournament like S2 finals breaking records, and on top of that the service pc bangs provide there, I'm really excited to see how big it can actualy become.
Korea LoL also has a slightly different model when compared to the western servers. There's some sort of promo if you play in PC bangs that can help you get skins easier or something iirc.
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On October 18 2012 05:10 Frolossus wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 05:06 JBright wrote:On October 18 2012 05:04 VoidMaster wrote:On October 18 2012 04:34 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:18 VoidMaster wrote: Great to hear you are liking LoL :D. Just curious, how much does an hour of gaming cost in ''Pc bangs''? I ask this becouse here we do have something similar and an hour is about 1.50 $ and 5.5$ for 6 hours. pc bang is like $1 /hr and cheaper if you buy bulk hour in your pc bang card. but srsly, it doesnt matter its so cheap. anyoen can afford it in korea, since its so accesible lol. these pc bangs make money from drinks/cup noodles and various snacks. Well that would explain how LoL became so popular. Being a free game (ok i spent like 200$ for skins), having friends play it, a big tournament like S2 finals breaking records, and on top of that the service pc bangs provide there, I'm really excited to see how big it can actualy become. Korea LoL also has a slightly different model when compared to the western servers. There's some sort of promo if you play in PC bangs that can help you get skins easier or something iirc. i know logging in from a pc bang gets you a level 30 account with all champs dunno about skins and rp though
Right, that's what it was. I knew it was easier for them to get access to something but forgot whether it was champ or skin unlocks.
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hoping that taekbang leessang make a team and then win every game 4v5 rofl
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On October 18 2012 05:06 JBright wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 05:04 VoidMaster wrote:On October 18 2012 04:34 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:18 VoidMaster wrote: Great to hear you are liking LoL :D. Just curious, how much does an hour of gaming cost in ''Pc bangs''? I ask this becouse here we do have something similar and an hour is about 1.50 $ and 5.5$ for 6 hours. pc bang is like $1 /hr and cheaper if you buy bulk hour in your pc bang card. but srsly, it doesnt matter its so cheap. anyoen can afford it in korea, since its so accesible lol. these pc bangs make money from drinks/cup noodles and various snacks. Well that would explain how LoL became so popular. Being a free game (ok i spent like 200$ for skins), having friends play it, a big tournament like S2 finals breaking records, and on top of that the service pc bangs provide there, I'm really excited to see how big it can actualy become. Korea LoL also has a slightly different model when compared to the western servers. There's some sort of promo if you play in PC bangs that can help you get skins easier or something iirc. i know logging in from a pc bang gets you a level 30 account with all champs dunno about skins and rp though
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can u shed light on why LoL is taking over korea rather than dota? I never played dota so I wouldn't know. Maybe get alil into dota2 vs LoL in terms of spectator-ship and competitiveness.
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United States47024 Posts
On October 18 2012 05:17 Mystic_Starcraft wrote: can u shed light on why LoL is taking over korea rather than dota? I never played dota so I wouldn't know. Maybe get alil into dota2 vs LoL in terms of spectator-ship and competitiveness. DotA not that big in Korea historically, much bigger in China.
LoL was in the right place at the right time to become the next big thing in Korea, with the big void in E-sports left by the fall of BW, that SC2 was simply inadequate to fill. At the relevant time, DotA 2 wasn't (and still isn't) close enough to being a finished product. It also wasn't marketed that much/at all in Korea to my knowledge.
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On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene?
Its hard to follow korean scene if you are not korean since they are all in korea. (www.inven.co.kr) But, in the future as there are more international events and more korean teams rise to the top, things will be easier to follow. But yea, there are many korean teams forming atm. Startale recently just formed 2 teams. Team red and team blue, just like azubu blaze and azubu frost. so 10 people under the same roof.
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you can watch high elo streamers from korea on afreeca the same way as broodwar right now.
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LoL is boring and you only need 20-30 apm to play it at a high level.
I can pick up LoL at any time and have a chance to beat my brother who plays at 1700 elo, but he can't pick up sc2 and have any hope at beating me.
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On October 18 2012 05:20 tylervoss4 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene? Its hard to follow korean scene if you are not korean since they are all in korea. (www.inven.co.kr) But, in the future as there are more international events and more korean teams rise to the top, things will be easier to follow. But yea, there are many korean teams forming atm. Startale recently just formed 2 teams. Team red and team blue, just like azubu blaze and azubu frost. so 10 people under the same roof.
Hm interesting, so the Gom teams pick up LoL as well, nice. I wonder why teamliquid doesnt provide content for LoL the same way as they do for dota2. I bet there are a lot of people here who would help creating the content. neo whats up wioth that? LoL getting picked up by tl some time in the future?
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On October 18 2012 05:31 Jermman wrote: LoL is boring and you only need 20-30 apm to play it at a high level.
I can pick up LoL at any time and have a chance to beat my brother who plays at 1700 elo, but he can't pick up sc2 and have any hope at beating me.
troll? Oo
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On October 18 2012 05:17 Mystic_Starcraft wrote: can u shed light on why LoL is taking over korea rather than dota? I never played dota so I wouldn't know. Maybe get alil into dota2 vs LoL in terms of spectator-ship and competitiveness. dota in beta
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United States37500 Posts
On October 18 2012 05:32 Djin)ftw( wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 05:20 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene? Its hard to follow korean scene if you are not korean since they are all in korea. (www.inven.co.kr) But, in the future as there are more international events and more korean teams rise to the top, things will be easier to follow. But yea, there are many korean teams forming atm. Startale recently just formed 2 teams. Team red and team blue, just like azubu blaze and azubu frost. so 10 people under the same roof. Hm interesting, so the Gom teams pick up LoL as well, nice. I wonder why teamliquid doesnt provide content for LoL the same way as they do for dota2. I bet there are a lot of people here who would help creating the content. neo whats up wioth that? LoL getting picked up by tl some time in the future?
Lack of man power for the most part. Our staff is composed of 5 users. We're working on getting our Worlds Review out by this weekend.
And there's no talk about LoL getting picked up by TL any time soon. The Reds prefer DotA2 over LoL and they slowly getting into gear with official coverage of DotA2.
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It's sad, as it could help a lot with korean scene review to have TL focused on LoL as well.
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On October 18 2012 05:37 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 05:32 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 05:20 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene? Its hard to follow korean scene if you are not korean since they are all in korea. (www.inven.co.kr) But, in the future as there are more international events and more korean teams rise to the top, things will be easier to follow. But yea, there are many korean teams forming atm. Startale recently just formed 2 teams. Team red and team blue, just like azubu blaze and azubu frost. so 10 people under the same roof. Hm interesting, so the Gom teams pick up LoL as well, nice. I wonder why teamliquid doesnt provide content for LoL the same way as they do for dota2. I bet there are a lot of people here who would help creating the content. neo whats up wioth that? LoL getting picked up by tl some time in the future? Lack of man power for the most part. Our staff is composed of 5 users. We're working on getting our Worlds Review out by this weekend. And there's no talk about LoL getting picked up by TL any time soon. The Reds prefer DotA2 over LoL and they slowly getting into gear with official coverage of DotA2. Don't overwork yourselves! We know it's coming soon, and it's gonna kick ass.
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On October 18 2012 05:37 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 05:32 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 05:20 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene? Its hard to follow korean scene if you are not korean since they are all in korea. (www.inven.co.kr) But, in the future as there are more international events and more korean teams rise to the top, things will be easier to follow. But yea, there are many korean teams forming atm. Startale recently just formed 2 teams. Team red and team blue, just like azubu blaze and azubu frost. so 10 people under the same roof. Hm interesting, so the Gom teams pick up LoL as well, nice. I wonder why teamliquid doesnt provide content for LoL the same way as they do for dota2. I bet there are a lot of people here who would help creating the content. neo whats up wioth that? LoL getting picked up by tl some time in the future? Lack of man power for the most part. Our staff is composed of 5 users. We're working on getting our Worlds Review out by this weekend. And there's no talk about LoL getting picked up by TL any time soon. The Reds prefer DotA2 over LoL and they slowly getting into gear with official coverage of DotA2. i was going to say i think the people that run tl prefer dota2, but as the koreans in the first few posts of this thread mentioned, once you actually try LoL you realize there is a good game there. good to have you guys also.
there is a reason LoL has become the dominant force in pc games. everytime im like eh i think i might be done playing lol they get me back with some insanely smart decision. like i love jungling, but the way junglers currently work doesnt appeal to me. lo and behold i see they are remaking the jungle again for season 3 and adding new items for junglers. aight, im back. the constant balance tweaks also are very welcome. i mean blizzards glacially slow patch process is mind-boggling.
tl will eventually have a more dedicated LoL news and review section, i have no doubt of that. i bet that we wont have to scramble to get the season 3 championships stream added to the list on the right. and the way the season 3 regular season is going to play out is seriously AWESOME. i cant wait.
we think LoL is big now, i think it is just beginning.
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United States37500 Posts
On October 18 2012 05:41 Lysteria wrote:It's sad, as it could help a lot with korean scene review to have TL focused on LoL as well. 
We aim to have a better international coverage in S3, I promise. TheYango was brought on specially for his insight on the Chinese scene. Chexx and Vlani help out a ton with their consistent new postings about the Korean scene.
If there's anything we, as a subforum, can improve upon, it's to move away from the NA centric view of LoL.
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United States37500 Posts
On October 18 2012 05:46 Vaporized wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 05:37 NeoIllusions wrote:On October 18 2012 05:32 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 05:20 tylervoss4 wrote:On October 18 2012 04:58 Djin)ftw( wrote:On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:On October 18 2012 04:47 Djin)ftw( wrote: Come now, that a couple of Ex-Slayers players move to LoL is just the beginning. There is no way that the Kespa-teams wont jump on the bandwagon when LoL is that popular. I am sure that a lot of players already play it besides SC2. As soon as KHAN, SKt1, KTF etc. create LoL teams, a lot of these SC2 players will join. Sc2 is just not popular in South Korea and I highly doubt that HotS will change that.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of Blizzard though. After the disappointing SC2 and the clusterfuck that is D3 I'm curious as to what will happen in the future. Incidentally, KT already does have a LoL team, and CJ's had one for a little while now. what seriously? Man... is there some coverage of the korean scene? Its hard to follow korean scene if you are not korean since they are all in korea. (www.inven.co.kr) But, in the future as there are more international events and more korean teams rise to the top, things will be easier to follow. But yea, there are many korean teams forming atm. Startale recently just formed 2 teams. Team red and team blue, just like azubu blaze and azubu frost. so 10 people under the same roof. Hm interesting, so the Gom teams pick up LoL as well, nice. I wonder why teamliquid doesnt provide content for LoL the same way as they do for dota2. I bet there are a lot of people here who would help creating the content. neo whats up wioth that? LoL getting picked up by tl some time in the future? Lack of man power for the most part. Our staff is composed of 5 users. We're working on getting our Worlds Review out by this weekend. And there's no talk about LoL getting picked up by TL any time soon. The Reds prefer DotA2 over LoL and they slowly getting into gear with official coverage of DotA2. i was going to say i think the people that run tl prefer dota2, but as the koreans in the first few posts of this thread mentioned, once you actually try LoL you realize there is a good game there. good to have you guys also. there is a reason LoL has become the dominant force in pc games. everytime im like eh i think i might be done playing lol they get me back with some insanely smart decision. like i love jungling, but the way junglers currently work doesnt appeal to me. lo and behold i see they are remaking the jungle again for season 3 and adding new items for junglers. aight, im back. the constant balance tweaks also are very welcome. i mean blizzards glacially slow patch process is mind-boggling. tl will eventually have a more dedicated LoL news and review section, i have no doubt of that. i bet that we wont have to scramble to get the season 3 championships stream added to the list on the right. and the way the season 3 regular season is going to play out is seriously AWESOME. i cant wait. we think LoL is big now, i think it is just beginning.
lol... the stream update on the right is my fault. I'm the only one on LoL staff that has access and I'm a tad slow in remember to update the calendar. :3 I'll get better at it!
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