[News] SPL and KeSPA's Upcoming Reform - Page 14

On July 05 2013 01:15 geokilla wrote:
Wolf mentioned on Twitter that his is going to be bad for League of Legends in the long run. Any reason why?

On July 05 2013 01:14 starslayer wrote:

.... whats that even mean i said if the team that join play sc2 that would be cool but it doesnt say that so im not getting my hopes up

On July 05 2013 00:09 SidianTheBard wrote:
Great news. If Dota2 wasn't supported by Valve, who everybody loves, it would already be a dead game. Glad SPL & Kespa were smart and picked up the better MOBA game. Maybe it's time for TL to actually pick up and fully support League?

On July 05 2013 01:10 Thinasy wrote:


"you really need to get your facts straight", you do realize you cant buy runes with IRL cash right? also you are able to buy champions with ingame-cash, so if anything you are the delusional one here atm.

On July 05 2013 01:19 N.geNuity wrote:
its actually very easy to know how LoL got big in korea: n00bs said chaos (korean dota) was too hard and bw was too hard so they went to LoL (turn on eng subs)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81sFuQC-JRc#t=2m38s

which this short little series (3 episodes) also explains how LoL was totally a conspiracy by OGN in korea

all of them:
+ Show Spoiler +

On July 05 2013 01:02 StarStruck wrote:




They fail to realize that a LoL PL would eat up a lot of TV/coverage time as well. OGN already has their own league (this has been said several times already-- not our fault if those choose not to read a few of the responses in the thread for post cred), so it does actually impact the SC2 coverage to a certain extent in Korea.

On July 05 2013 01:55 Pr0wler wrote:

Yeah, but the OP says nothing about SC2 at all. Now we can make assumptions that it may affect SC2 in some way, but I still don't think it should be in this forum. When we have a news article that says "SC2 tv time cut in half because of LoL PL" it's place is here, but this one should be in LoL forum.
Now this thread is full of LoL bashing, SC2 bashing, BW bashing etc, etc...

On July 04 2013 19:24 ZAiNs wrote:

Haha, only because Riot is paying them.

On July 05 2013 01:09 canikizu wrote:

Tencent bought Riot in 2011 for $400M, which was not actually that big of a shit ton, HoN was already a sinking ship by then because all the bad decision S2 made.

Riot use player's money to pump back to the game, increase the game quality, organize the tournaments, I don't see how that's bad, should them just keep all the money and only do $1M tournament a year like Valve?

On July 05 2013 01:27 StarStruck wrote:


More like society is leaning more towards games that are easy to get in and out of from a noncompetitive level. LoL is a very social game (both a good and bad thing -- hopefully you play with a lot of friends!). Remember when we ripped apart Blizzard when they first announced SC2. We spoke about everything from auto-mine, to MBS, etc. all that jazz. Times are always going to change and f2p/mobas have been doing pretty darn well for quite some time. It's a completely different market though and they have to worry about other things. Fortunately pirating isn't on their to-do list.

On July 05 2013 02:05 Eishi_Ki wrote:



Can you explain to me exactly how a game being social can be in ANY way classed as a bad thing?

On July 05 2013 02:09 StarStruck wrote:


Reported for feeding; reported for harassement; reported for being an unskilled player; players talking as if they know their shit; people failing to communicate or show any teamwork. I think you get the idea. There's just a lot of negativity when it comes to gaming chat in general. ;/ I think you get the idea. Not all your online social interactions with people are going to be positive.

I'll give you one example from one of the last times I played. My buddy and I were trying something new and innovative bot lane in a normal game and a few guys weren't to thrilled about it. The dialogue that ensued was pretty darn entertaining hohoho. LoL can be a lot of fun when your playing with a lot friends. It's way more fun than going solo cue, but you'll always run into a few negative Nancies eventually.

On July 04 2013 14:25 ssg wrote:
Kespa was successful because they held a monopoly on BW talent. They are less so, but still very successful now because they have half the SC2 talent.


LOL at them for thinking they can just incorporate LoL.

On July 05 2013 02:54 ACrow wrote:

Sorry for being anecdotal, but it is an example for StarStruck's point:

A few weeks ago, I tried out Dota to build an informed opinion about MOBAs, I played a little more than 30 games, before I uninstalled it - frustrated. Obviously I didn't play very well as I just started out and just read a few guides on how to play support (I'm pretty sure though there were also a lot of people playing a lot worse than I, but who am I to judge). I was always very open about being new, asked for advice on how to do stuff better. Needless to say, I was flamed a lot, was seemingly reported (at least I got the message that I would not receive any battle points and being in low priority queue); there were tons of people completely ignoring team mates, talking in Russian, Spanish or French - when politely asked to communicate at least rudimentarily in English, a lot of profanities were voiced.

There were of course a few exceptions to the rule, players that would help out, were nice etc, but overall I'd say my impression of the MOBA community is worse than let's say that of CoD, which says a lot. I won't touch that game until friends of mine persuade me, DOTA was far from a pleasant experience for me. I enjoyed the actual gameplay somewhat, but far less than real RTS and not enough to put up with all that added shit. Sometimes it felt as I wasn't playing Dota but the blame game.

On July 05 2013 03:02 J.E.G. wrote:
why is this in sc2 general

On July 05 2013 01:18 Gevna wrote:

Who are you kidding ? I've played like 500 games of lol, and I don't even have 1/3 of the total pool. You can't have access to the full game without going by the cashshop.