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Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
May 20 2014 17:46 GMT
#40281
On May 21 2014 02:37 Gahlo wrote:
+ Show Spoiler [PKMN:B2-J2] +
Hey!

Just got into Floccesy town and boy so much has happened! I guess I should start with my first battle, since I left it out before. At first I wanted to kick myself when Heung-soo brought out his Snivy. How could I have forgotten and picked into a weak match up!? I'll have to find something to train that will be strong against it. That's fire, right?

Anyway, I decided to go all out, hoping to put him on the back foot. Despite early resistance, the Snivy just stared back at us for most of the fight and I'm not really sure what's going on. When Yuwott got in the final blow, Bianca called out that it was a critical hit. What a finish!

I was shown around the pokemart, given pokeballs(enough to finish off a team!), new shoes to replace the ones I ran the soles off at school, and lastly a potion before I was on my way to route 19. I caught a Purrloin(Purrple) and a Patrat(Praelle)! I think I may be allergic to cat pokemon, so I don't know if I'm going to use it. I searched around some more, but that's all I found.

Anyway, I can barely keep my eyes open so I'm gonna stop typing now.

Til next time!

(If he asks questions, you can answer them.)

Nice, keep it up.

Is this a pure Nuzlocke? What rules are you using?
It's your boy Guzma!
AsmodeusXI
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States15536 Posts
May 20 2014 17:46 GMT
#40282
On May 21 2014 02:40 Hot_Bid wrote:
In addition to what Naz said I just wanna make a point that the idea of "TL hates LoL" really is kind of ridiculous.

Everyone who has played StarCraft has at some point in their lives made a "LoL is easy" joke but every time I'm asked seriously about this topic I always criticize the SC fans and players who hate on another game that people enjoy. Simply because I personally don't play a game does not mean I hate it or don't respect it or the scene it has created.

Also, it may go without saying but I would love nothing more than to have a TL LoL site that is successful and great. However, after long discussion and a lot of thought about it, we've decided we can't do it right now. A lot factors go into this decision and a lot of them are outside our control, but in summary, considering these factors, we do not feel we have the capability to pull off a standalone TL LoL site the way we want to, with the impact and success we would like.

Does anyone actually believe that despite publicly stating that nobody on TL staff actively or irrationally hates on LoL that we'd just secretly spite-kill a TL LoL site if we had the capability of doing one? Who wouldn't want a successful standalone LoL site? Do you really believe we hate LoL so much that we'd give up ad money and traffic and success and a potentially great community? It's a bit ridiculous right?


I'm just sorry you even felt the need to address such stupid commentary. T_T
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36399 Posts
May 20 2014 17:47 GMT
#40283
On May 21 2014 02:44 caelym wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2014 02:37 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
On May 21 2014 02:12 xes wrote:
To follow up on adding other games into streams cross-site, has there been consideration for cross-site community as well? Most of the subforums under the "Community" category are game agnostic and it would make for more streamlined TL engagement to not have to go to separate sites.

For example, the Twitch/Youtube deal discussion is posted three times:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/general/450721-youtube-to-acquire-twitch-for-1bn
http://www.liquidhearth.com/forum/hearthstone/2687-youtube-to-acquire-twitch-for-1bn
http://www.liquiddota.com/forum/general/3289-youtube-to-acquire-twitch

Was this a conscious decision to split the community into sections lead by more recognizable members of the subcommunity?

Also why does LiquidDota have so much better CSS/Javascript swag than the main TL site?

It was definitely a conscious decision to split the games into separate communities. You can read more about that here. LiquidDota was created only recently so everything is up to date according to our latest thoughts and preferences. We're working out the bugs there currently and over time hope to take a good look at TL to see which things can be used here as well.

I've always felt the cross contamination of different games was an attractive quality of TL. Being able to discuss General forum topics with fans of other games made it feel like I was part of a bigger community.

Ideally we want this to stay, we'll try to make it work but it won't be easy the way TL's databases are set up.
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
caelym
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6425 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-20 17:51:12
May 20 2014 17:49 GMT
#40284
Yea... no rational person thinks "TL hates LoL". Also TL leadership is totally correct in the fact that we can't support a standalone LoL site. Outside of tournament threads, we have only 3 or 4 active threads.
BlackPaladin
Profile Joined May 2010
United States9316 Posts
May 20 2014 17:51 GMT
#40285
Since my question wasn't answered I'll repost it:
Why don't you make LoL streams by default show under "other games," and then you can customize it by selecting "show LoL streams" where it actually organizes them into a specific LoL group on the sidebar? Then you can do this with any other big name games you add as well (including hearthstone, DotA, etc). That way by default only the Starcraft streams show on TL, and all other game streams are put under "other games," but customizable, that way you can keep a standardized site look. However the regulars who love TL and have been here for years can still then customize their sidebar so it organizes them in specific groups like "LoL streams," "Hearthstone streams," "DotA streams," etc. (Obviously this is for the main site specifically)

I don't mind the standalone sites, but I come to TL. If I wanted to look up specific things on DotA, hearthstone, etc, I'd obviously go to the standalone sites, but as for streams, they should at least be able to be customized on the main site and all should be listed. Obviously liquidhearth for example would still only show hearthstone streams, but those streams should still show up on the TL sidebar as "other games" unless you customize it to, for example, "show hearthstone streams," then it can organize them into a "Hearthstone" section. This should be able to be done for any game.

TL to me isn't merely a site, it's a community. When you split the community into separate sites, that's not inherently a bad thing. However, streamers are a large part of the community, and streams are a completely different thing from the actual coverage. Streamers don't even always only stream a single game. Separating the coverage is one thing, but completely separating even streamers from the site seems unacceptable from a community perspective.
"Your full potential does not matter if you do not use all 100% of it."
Zess
Profile Joined July 2012
Adun Toridas!9144 Posts
May 20 2014 18:01 GMT
#40286
Do you guys have data points on how many TL users actually care about the community aspect and watch multiple games? I feel that there is a lot of bias here because most of the users from here have been long time TL members or lurkers from pre-2008 and we tend to watch any major esports tournament that's being streamed.

I imagine most of the users are apathetic if not completely antagonistic towards knowing that other esports exist.
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Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-20 18:14:03
May 20 2014 18:13 GMT
#40287
On May 21 2014 02:40 Hot_Bid wrote:
In addition to what Naz said I just wanna make a point that the idea of "TL hates LoL" really is kind of ridiculous.

Everyone who has played StarCraft has at some point in their lives made a "LoL is easy" joke but every time I'm asked seriously about this topic I always criticize the SC fans and players who hate on another game that people enjoy. Simply because I personally don't play a game does not mean I hate it or don't respect it or the scene it has created.

Also, it may go without saying but I would love nothing more than to have a TL LoL site that is successful and great. However, after long discussion and a lot of thought about it, we've decided we can't do it right now. A lot factors go into this decision and a lot of them are outside our control, but in summary, considering these factors, we do not feel we have the capability to pull off a standalone TL LoL site the way we want to, with the impact and success we would like.

Does anyone actually believe that despite publicly stating that nobody on TL staff actively or irrationally hates on LoL that we'd just secretly spite-kill a TL LoL site if we had the capability of doing one? Who wouldn't want a successful standalone LoL site? Do you really believe we hate LoL so much that we'd give up ad money and traffic and success and a potentially great community? It's a bit ridiculous right?


it is really easy though
its just not easy to be good at
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
May 20 2014 18:17 GMT
#40288
On May 21 2014 03:13 Slayer91 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2014 02:40 Hot_Bid wrote:
In addition to what Naz said I just wanna make a point that the idea of "TL hates LoL" really is kind of ridiculous.

Everyone who has played StarCraft has at some point in their lives made a "LoL is easy" joke but every time I'm asked seriously about this topic I always criticize the SC fans and players who hate on another game that people enjoy. Simply because I personally don't play a game does not mean I hate it or don't respect it or the scene it has created.

Also, it may go without saying but I would love nothing more than to have a TL LoL site that is successful and great. However, after long discussion and a lot of thought about it, we've decided we can't do it right now. A lot factors go into this decision and a lot of them are outside our control, but in summary, considering these factors, we do not feel we have the capability to pull off a standalone TL LoL site the way we want to, with the impact and success we would like.

Does anyone actually believe that despite publicly stating that nobody on TL staff actively or irrationally hates on LoL that we'd just secretly spite-kill a TL LoL site if we had the capability of doing one? Who wouldn't want a successful standalone LoL site? Do you really believe we hate LoL so much that we'd give up ad money and traffic and success and a potentially great community? It's a bit ridiculous right?


it is really easy though
its just not easy to be good at

Ooh kill em
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
May 20 2014 18:19 GMT
#40289
i wasn't joking at all
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-20 18:20:04
May 20 2014 18:19 GMT
#40290
Neither was I
Cast off your chains
Overthrow the oppressors.
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
kainzero
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States5211 Posts
May 20 2014 18:26 GMT
#40291
On May 21 2014 03:13 Slayer91 wrote:
it is really easy though
its just not easy to be good at

what's the difference?

if the objective of this game is to defeat your opponent, then the difficulty should be determined by your opponent, not by mechanics.
Gahlo
Profile Joined February 2010
United States35172 Posts
May 20 2014 18:38 GMT
#40292
On May 21 2014 02:46 Requizen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2014 02:37 Gahlo wrote:
+ Show Spoiler [PKMN:B2-J2] +
Hey!

Just got into Floccesy town and boy so much has happened! I guess I should start with my first battle, since I left it out before. At first I wanted to kick myself when Heung-soo brought out his Snivy. How could I have forgotten and picked into a weak match up!? I'll have to find something to train that will be strong against it. That's fire, right?

Anyway, I decided to go all out, hoping to put him on the back foot. Despite early resistance, the Snivy just stared back at us for most of the fight and I'm not really sure what's going on. When Yuwott got in the final blow, Bianca called out that it was a critical hit. What a finish!

I was shown around the pokemart, given pokeballs(enough to finish off a team!), new shoes to replace the ones I ran the soles off at school, and lastly a potion before I was on my way to route 19. I caught a Purrloin(Purrple) and a Patrat(Praelle)! I think I may be allergic to cat pokemon, so I don't know if I'm going to use it. I searched around some more, but that's all I found.

Anyway, I can barely keep my eyes open so I'm gonna stop typing now.

Til next time!

(If he asks questions, you can answer them.)

Nice, keep it up.

Is this a pure Nuzlocke? What rules are you using?

Nah, I'm homebrewing it. Not going into the details of it.
Cixah
Profile Joined July 2010
United States11285 Posts
May 20 2014 18:48 GMT
#40293
1 Hour into Transistor and this game is amazing. Story amazingly told, the music actually makes the game feel really good (just like bastion), The combat is pretty repetitive, but still fun.
Hug The Goat! Hug the Goat! Hug the Goat!
Requizen
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States33802 Posts
May 20 2014 18:51 GMT
#40294
NO SPOILS PLZ

So hype to play/stream later
It's your boy Guzma!
ketchup
Profile Joined August 2010
14521 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-20 19:03:34
May 20 2014 18:52 GMT
#40295
On May 21 2014 02:30 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2014 01:53 ketchup wrote:
On May 20 2014 20:57 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
The community is only one part of the variables involved with starting a standalone site. News coverage, Staff, Riot esports coverage, existing presence of large community sites, not having a Liquipedia, timing (better to come in early like we were able to do with Hearthstone), and other factors all play an important role as well. We do recognize there is a tight community here but we don't think it translates to standalone site opportunities the way this was the case for other games.


Nazgul,

Around the time TL introduced that you would be officially covering DotA2, the LoL blurb on the article was fairly dismissive of LoL on TL. A lot of times that TL gets mentioned on reddit for an article the TL LoL staff did, this transition into DotA2 is referenced, and the dismissive tone is set from there on. If I have my timeline correct, Season 2 World Championships for LoL were also coming up shortly after this article. This period of time was so perfect for TL to get a foot into LoL. This is a long time ago now, but it always confused me how it was handled. Would you change how you handled LoL back then or not? I know this is a long time ago, but there is definitely still room for TL to get into LoL. The only thing stopping progression has been TL staff.

To add on to the above, there is still no "good" forum for LoL yet. There are various sites that cover LoL, but nothing that attempts to build on the community aspect. The official LoL forums are not really taken care of too well to develop it, or at least there is no real moderation there. Reddit's /r/LeagueofLegends is the closest thing, and it doesn't build the same type of community that TL can. I believe sincerely that there are still people looking for a community that TL LoL can offer, but that a lot of what TL staff have chosen to do has worked against growing TL LoL. These new changes seem like a pretty huge step backwards. Again, if I look at his from an outside perspective, you get a feeling that it dismisses LoL on TL. Any new user that might wander into TL from an article that TL LoL put out will probably wonder why TL LoL is under "other games" section. You would think that with how large the game itself is, it would be natural for it to be on a section of it's own.

Lastly, speaking of LoL articles, why were they never spotlighted before? I don't understand how anyone would think that LoL articles/staff did not want to be spotlighted on TL. This makes absolutely no sense to me at all no matter how much I think about it. I know the quality was there. The amount of effort put in to the articles is easily seen. From what I recall, there were a few articles that were translated into Korean. This was so cool to hear about for me, because it was always TL who translated from various Korean news sites, but TL LoL actually got the reverse to happen! I find the lack of care given to TL LoL by TL just off putting, and honestly, it's not really difficult to see why TL LoL has staff issues. I don't know of any person that does not want to be acknowledged for their effort.

To put it simply, TL has shown that it is fairly dismissive of the TL LoL staff/community. I sincerely wish you would change this, but I'm probably just hoping for something that will not happen. It's not really a surprise that TL LoL gets put back into the other games section, and I can understand why you think it fits what you see TL as being. I just don't think it's the correct choice when considering what TL means to many of us. I don't think I'll leave the TL LoL forums as long as they exist with the community we have, but it really does suck to see how stubborn TL has been with LoL any time it comes up. This is all coming from someone who is barely involved in TL LoL, so I cannot even imagine how TL LoL staff/writers must be feeling.

I apologize for the length that this turned out to be

For the full answer on whether or not it was a mistake I could probably fill a book.

We've recently gone through a whole period of realization where we have started to feel adding Dota to TL was a mistake. Not because the game isn't worth it, but because TL wasn't equipped for multi-gaming. I have to refer to my blog again that explains this more in depth. Dota resonated incredibly well with our community yet it didn't lead to growth. Our coverage was great, our Dota community was great, yet people from the outside still saw us as that StarCraft site. So with what we have learned about this I definitely think it would have been a mistake to add LoL to the frontpage. Based on what we experienced with Dota we don't think that would have lead to a great position in the LoL community. If two games lead to this many issues three games would have been worse.

TL basically did nothing but BW for nearly 10 years. We didn't care which game was bigger we just liked what we were doing. When SC2 came out we took a similar approach and especially when SC2 blew up and TL was in a great spot we thought it was good to keep everything on TL. The thought of a standalone Dota site didn't even cross our mind back then. If I had to point out a mistake it would be that we were late to realize standalone sites dedicated to games were a better option to forming and shaping communities than keeping everything on TL. If we had figured that out in the early stages of League's popularity maybe it could have been possible.

The short answer is no I don't think it was a mistake not to add LoL. It would have been too much for TL to handle and additionally in that period there was a lot of fear and dislike among TL SC2 fans. However we have made mistakes such as not thinking about standalone sites in the earlier stages of LoL's popularity.



I thank you for this answer. I'm not fully trying to convince you that this change is bad because I understand what you see TL as. I can see why you feel the way you do, but it's different from the TL I imagine. That's okay. The problem comes in with how people who aren't involved see TL LoL as. Again from the outside perspective, a new user on TL looking for LoL will be really confused. Why is LoL listed under "Other Games", and why is it so differently formatted from the other games there? The bottom line comes down that a lot of these changes promote an environment on TL as a whole of "This community does not belong here" for TL LoL. This environment is not a good thing for anyone, and it doesn't help that there is animosity from certain fans of SC2/DotA2 towards LoL. It gives them more reason to feel their hate is justified by seeing LoL further demoted or now put down in the "other games" section.

On May 21 2014 02:40 Hot_Bid wrote:
In addition to what Naz said I just wanna make a point that the idea of "TL hates LoL" really is kind of ridiculous.

Everyone who has played StarCraft has at some point in their lives made a "LoL is easy" joke but every time I'm asked seriously about this topic I always criticize the SC fans and players who hate on another game that people enjoy. Simply because I personally don't play a game does not mean I hate it or don't respect it or the scene it has created.

Also, it may go without saying but I would love nothing more than to have a TL LoL site that is successful and great. However, after long discussion and a lot of thought about it, we've decided we can't do it right now. A lot factors go into this decision and a lot of them are outside our control, but in summary, considering these factors, we do not feel we have the capability to pull off a standalone TL LoL site the way we want to, with the impact and success we would like.

Does anyone actually believe that despite publicly stating that nobody on TL staff actively or irrationally hates on LoL that we'd just secretly spite-kill a TL LoL site if we had the capability of doing one? Who wouldn't want a successful standalone LoL site? Do you really believe we hate LoL so much that we'd give up ad money and traffic and success and a potentially great community? It's a bit ridiculous right?


First, I think saying TL hates LoL is an obvious exaggeration. I just don't understand how you can fault the people who are going to say that. It's inevitable considering how TL has responded to LoL at times. It very well feels like there are many people on TL staff who are indifferent about it, some who dislike it, and even fewer who actually want it around on TL. Again, there is(was?) a real dismissive aura around TL in regards to LoL, and it's not something I'm just randomly making up.

Secondly, If a standalone site is the goal for TL some time in the future, the question then turns into a "when"? You were able to release LiquidHearth while it was still technically in beta. DotA 2 similarly was officially supported by TL while it was still in open beta technically(dota 2 was officially released in June/July 2013, the article I linked in my previous post was about TL officially support for DotA2 in August 2012). LoL has been around for 5 years now. TL LoL has been around for a similar amount of time, but has had no real consideration or proper support from TL. Will it ever happen?

If you want to make a serious attempt at TL LoL site, why not recruit people now? Make your interest known around the scene while you are making changes to TL so you gain people for the future. Make it known that TL is serious about creating TL LoL standalone, and go from there. Make it known on various sites(such as reddit) that you are looking seriously at this, and would welcome help/criticism. What is occurring now is that TL LoL will stay a fairly isolated section due to TL's prior decisions. As I pointed out above to Nazgul, by putting LoL back into "other games", it further isolates LoL as being something that isn't "TL" and is something "less". What we have now is essentially "we are thinking about it", but no real action shown to the public that it might be a real possibility.

I can understand why TL LoL would not have staff/resources to make a standalone site work currently, but I would like to make it clear that it didn't have to be this way. There are real issues with how TL has handled TL LoL, but there is still a demand for a site like TL in the league of legends community. As mentioned, /r/leagueoflegends is not good enough, and the official forums have chosen to mimic reddit in their new community section. There has been no site yet which fulfills what TL offered in the old days, and what TL could offer now.
Cixah
Profile Joined July 2010
United States11285 Posts
May 20 2014 19:05 GMT
#40296
Selfie doing working and losing Robot Soniv points. Should be an ezpz week.
Hug The Goat! Hug the Goat! Hug the Goat!
ketchup
Profile Joined August 2010
14521 Posts
May 20 2014 19:07 GMT
#40297
On May 21 2014 04:05 Cixah wrote:
Selfie doing working and losing Robot Soniv points. Should be an ezpz week.


Please, that jankos with the 0.29 points is the real star.
Slayer91
Profile Joined February 2006
Ireland23335 Posts
May 20 2014 19:08 GMT
#40298
On May 21 2014 03:26 kainzero wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2014 03:13 Slayer91 wrote:
it is really easy though
its just not easy to be good at

what's the difference?

if the objective of this game is to defeat your opponent, then the difficulty should be determined by your opponent, not by mechanics.


it takes more effort to win a 15 round boxing match than it does to win a LoL game
im talking how difficult it is to play the game
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
May 20 2014 19:18 GMT
#40299
On May 21 2014 03:52 ketchup wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +

On May 21 2014 02:30 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 21 2014 01:53 ketchup wrote:
On May 20 2014 20:57 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
The community is only one part of the variables involved with starting a standalone site. News coverage, Staff, Riot esports coverage, existing presence of large community sites, not having a Liquipedia, timing (better to come in early like we were able to do with Hearthstone), and other factors all play an important role as well. We do recognize there is a tight community here but we don't think it translates to standalone site opportunities the way this was the case for other games.


Nazgul,

Around the time TL introduced that you would be officially covering DotA2, the LoL blurb on the article was fairly dismissive of LoL on TL. A lot of times that TL gets mentioned on reddit for an article the TL LoL staff did, this transition into DotA2 is referenced, and the dismissive tone is set from there on. If I have my timeline correct, Season 2 World Championships for LoL were also coming up shortly after this article. This period of time was so perfect for TL to get a foot into LoL. This is a long time ago now, but it always confused me how it was handled. Would you change how you handled LoL back then or not? I know this is a long time ago, but there is definitely still room for TL to get into LoL. The only thing stopping progression has been TL staff.

To add on to the above, there is still no "good" forum for LoL yet. There are various sites that cover LoL, but nothing that attempts to build on the community aspect. The official LoL forums are not really taken care of too well to develop it, or at least there is no real moderation there. Reddit's /r/LeagueofLegends is the closest thing, and it doesn't build the same type of community that TL can. I believe sincerely that there are still people looking for a community that TL LoL can offer, but that a lot of what TL staff have chosen to do has worked against growing TL LoL. These new changes seem like a pretty huge step backwards. Again, if I look at his from an outside perspective, you get a feeling that it dismisses LoL on TL. Any new user that might wander into TL from an article that TL LoL put out will probably wonder why TL LoL is under "other games" section. You would think that with how large the game itself is, it would be natural for it to be on a section of it's own.

Lastly, speaking of LoL articles, why were they never spotlighted before? I don't understand how anyone would think that LoL articles/staff did not want to be spotlighted on TL. This makes absolutely no sense to me at all no matter how much I think about it. I know the quality was there. The amount of effort put in to the articles is easily seen. From what I recall, there were a few articles that were translated into Korean. This was so cool to hear about for me, because it was always TL who translated from various Korean news sites, but TL LoL actually got the reverse to happen! I find the lack of care given to TL LoL by TL just off putting, and honestly, it's not really difficult to see why TL LoL has staff issues. I don't know of any person that does not want to be acknowledged for their effort.

To put it simply, TL has shown that it is fairly dismissive of the TL LoL staff/community. I sincerely wish you would change this, but I'm probably just hoping for something that will not happen. It's not really a surprise that TL LoL gets put back into the other games section, and I can understand why you think it fits what you see TL as being. I just don't think it's the correct choice when considering what TL means to many of us. I don't think I'll leave the TL LoL forums as long as they exist with the community we have, but it really does suck to see how stubborn TL has been with LoL any time it comes up. This is all coming from someone who is barely involved in TL LoL, so I cannot even imagine how TL LoL staff/writers must be feeling.

I apologize for the length that this turned out to be

For the full answer on whether or not it was a mistake I could probably fill a book.

We've recently gone through a whole period of realization where we have started to feel adding Dota to TL was a mistake. Not because the game isn't worth it, but because TL wasn't equipped for multi-gaming. I have to refer to my blog again that explains this more in depth. Dota resonated incredibly well with our community yet it didn't lead to growth. Our coverage was great, our Dota community was great, yet people from the outside still saw us as that StarCraft site. So with what we have learned about this I definitely think it would have been a mistake to add LoL to the frontpage. Based on what we experienced with Dota we don't think that would have lead to a great position in the LoL community. If two games lead to this many issues three games would have been worse.

TL basically did nothing but BW for nearly 10 years. We didn't care which game was bigger we just liked what we were doing. When SC2 came out we took a similar approach and especially when SC2 blew up and TL was in a great spot we thought it was good to keep everything on TL. The thought of a standalone Dota site didn't even cross our mind back then. If I had to point out a mistake it would be that we were late to realize standalone sites dedicated to games were a better option to forming and shaping communities than keeping everything on TL. If we had figured that out in the early stages of League's popularity maybe it could have been possible.

The short answer is no I don't think it was a mistake not to add LoL. It would have been too much for TL to handle and additionally in that period there was a lot of fear and dislike among TL SC2 fans. However we have made mistakes such as not thinking about standalone sites in the earlier stages of LoL's popularity.



I thank you for this answer. I'm not fully trying to convince you that this change is bad because I understand what you see TL as. I can see why you feel the way you do, but it's different from the TL I imagine. That's okay. The problem comes in with how people who aren't involved see TL LoL as. Again from the outside perspective, a new user on TL looking for LoL will be really confused. Why is LoL listed under "Other Games", and why is it so differently formatted from the other games there? The bottom line comes down that a lot of these changes promote an environment on TL as a whole of "This community does not belong here" for TL LoL. This environment is not a good thing for anyone, and it doesn't help that there is animosity from certain fans of SC2/DotA2 towards LoL. It gives them more reason to feel their hate is justified by seeing LoL further demoted or now put down in the "other games" section.

On May 21 2014 02:40 Hot_Bid wrote:
In addition to what Naz said I just wanna make a point that the idea of "TL hates LoL" really is kind of ridiculous.

Everyone who has played StarCraft has at some point in their lives made a "LoL is easy" joke but every time I'm asked seriously about this topic I always criticize the SC fans and players who hate on another game that people enjoy. Simply because I personally don't play a game does not mean I hate it or don't respect it or the scene it has created.

Also, it may go without saying but I would love nothing more than to have a TL LoL site that is successful and great. However, after long discussion and a lot of thought about it, we've decided we can't do it right now. A lot factors go into this decision and a lot of them are outside our control, but in summary, considering these factors, we do not feel we have the capability to pull off a standalone TL LoL site the way we want to, with the impact and success we would like.

Does anyone actually believe that despite publicly stating that nobody on TL staff actively or irrationally hates on LoL that we'd just secretly spite-kill a TL LoL site if we had the capability of doing one? Who wouldn't want a successful standalone LoL site? Do you really believe we hate LoL so much that we'd give up ad money and traffic and success and a potentially great community? It's a bit ridiculous right?


First, I think saying TL hates LoL is an obvious exaggeration. I just don't understand how you can fault the people who are going to say that. It's inevitable considering how TL has responded to LoL at times. It very well feels like there are many people on TL staff who are indifferent about it, some who dislike it, and even fewer who actually want it around on TL. Again, there is(was?) a real dismissive aura around TL in regards to LoL, and it's not something I'm just randomly making up.

Secondly, If a standalone site is the goal for TL some time in the future, the question then turns into a "when"? You were able to release LiquidHearth while it was still technically in beta. DotA 2 similarly was officially supported by TL while it was still in open beta technically(dota 2 was officially released in June/July 2013, the article I linked in my previous post was about TL officially support for DotA2 in August 2012). LoL has been around for 5 years now. TL LoL has been around for a similar amount of time, but has had no real consideration or proper support from TL. Will it ever happen?

If you want to make a serious attempt at TL LoL site, why not recruit people now? Make your interest known around the scene while you are making changes to TL so you gain people for the future. Make it known that TL is serious about creating TL LoL standalone, and go from there. Make it known on various sites(such as reddit) that you are looking seriously at this, and would welcome help/criticism. What is occurring now is that TL LoL will stay a fairly isolated section due to TL's prior decisions. As I pointed out above to Nazgul, by putting LoL back into "other games", it further isolates LoL as being something that isn't "TL" and is something "less". What we have now is essentially "we are thinking about it", but no real action shown to the public that it might be a real possibility.

I can understand why TL LoL would not have staff/resources to make a standalone site work currently, but I would like to make it clear that it didn't have to be this way. There are real issues with how TL has handled TL LoL, but there is still a demand for a site like TL in the league of legends community. As mentioned, /r/leagueoflegends is not good enough, and the official forums have chosen to mimic reddit in their new community section. There has been no site yet which fulfills what TL offered in the old days, and what TL could offer now.

They don't want to "make a serious attempt at a TL LoL site" because they disagree that there is a profitable place/need for one in the community. This is probably largely due to a lack of interest in the community, the people who make the big decisions just like dota better. why not LoL?: "we believe that Dota 2 should be the game we add to our coverage. It "fits" TL's style, and it's very popular among our staff, who play and watch the game as well as visit sites like r/dota2" and it's their site. The reason the old boys arn't writing / creating / promoting content for league is because they don't prefer it. Everyone who wants to create content for LoL on teamliquid can. Of course they don't actively hate on LoL. They can't see all the league bashing around the nose they are looking down at it, propagating ideas like starcraft players prefer dota. they only take away our options when its more important that everyone sees the same "dedicated look" for some reason. like in case someone who changed the default layout forgets to log in and when they cant find a subheading they might get confused and navigate away before remembering how to log in or that they customized their sidebar. That's the only reason i can think of taking the option out... can't risk it.
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