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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On September 19 2016 21:06 Requizen wrote: Dunno about esports but the game itself is still growing according to the numbers. almost certainly china driven. game is definitely declining in NA. | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On September 20 2016 02:19 PrinceXizor wrote: almost certainly china driven. game is definitely declining in NA. You would think, but I've seen more league related apparol than anything else at events and even nerd shops ect. It wouldn't surprise me that growth has slowed, but to be declining might not be wholely correct. | ||
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
On September 20 2016 02:25 Cixah wrote: You would think, but I've seen more league related apparol than anything else at events and even nerd shops ect. It wouldn't surprise me that growth has slowed, but to be declining might not be wholely correct. this is the right of it. declining growth != declining population | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
Music Monday - more Robert Delong because this track is freaking tight | ||
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
On September 20 2016 02:25 Cixah wrote: You would think, but I've seen more league related apparol than anything else at events and even nerd shops ect. It wouldn't surprise me that growth has slowed, but to be declining might not be wholely correct. I think its a shifting demographic, Most people have quit Dota/LoL but its probably still gaining people form the younger crowd. | ||
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Doctorbeat
Netherlands13241 Posts
Good feels though, time for some happy music :D This is a real fun poppy electro album. Has some real solid hits on it. | ||
yamato77
11589 Posts
The esports scene is really suffering, however, due to Riot's mismanagement. In the same time frame, its stipends for LCS teams have stagnated and the game has experienced a number of patch-timing issues that adversely affect the results of some of the most important tournaments. All the while, the cost associated with acquiring a spot in the league and running an LCS-level team has skyrocketed, with revenue streams drying up left and right due to the unfair treatment team sponsors receive from the company. The only people benefiting from Riot's current arrangement is themselves, they can write off any balance sheet deficits in the operation of LCS as money well spent on advertising their game and marketing their content to their loyal viewer/playerbase. Obviously the dynamic goes a bit deeper than this but this is the gist of what has happened in the past few months as information from (sometimes former) LCS owners and team sponsors becomes public. | ||
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nafta
Bulgaria18893 Posts
On September 20 2016 05:38 yamato77 wrote: Riot claims a current active monthly playerbase of 100+ million people. Still up from 2014's released numbers of 67 million monthly. League of Legends is not dying, at least not yet. The esports scene is really suffering, however, due to Riot's mismanagement. In the same time frame, its stipends for LCS teams have stagnated and the game has experienced a number of patch-timing issues that adversely affect the results of some of the most important tournaments. All the while, the cost associated with acquiring a spot in the league and running an LCS-level team has skyrocketed, with revenue streams drying up left and right due to the unfair treatment team sponsors receive from the company. The only people benefiting from Riot's current arrangement is themselves, they can write off any balance sheet deficits in the operation of LCS as money well spent on advertising their game and marketing their content to their loyal viewer/playerbase. Obviously the dynamic goes a bit deeper than this but this is the gist of what has happened in the past few months as information from (sometimes former) LCS owners and team sponsors becomes public. Not just the competitive scene. Higher level of play in general. All of my friends who still play appear to agree on this for the moment. Especially considering that the season is coming to a close it should be more active than usual. Maybe a lot of the top players that haven't quit are boosting. That could be a decent explanation. | ||
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Ketara
United States15065 Posts
A year ago Riot was like the Messiah of esports and could do no wrong. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On September 20 2016 06:36 Ketara wrote: I wonder what's gone on with their competitive scene manager that's been so bad? A year ago Riot was like the Messiah of esports and could do no wrong. They probably started believing this themselves. And there's your problem. | ||
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nafta
Bulgaria18893 Posts
On September 20 2016 06:37 Requizen wrote: They probably started believing this themselves. And there's your problem. Pretty sure this wasn't a recent development lol. More like riot in a nutshell since forever. The sad thing is it is kinda true. | ||
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Eppa!
Sweden4641 Posts
Monte and others a complaining about Riot not making the scene into some crazy laissez faire laissez passer environment for risk capitalists (which already dominate) to invest into teams where as League actually has a lot of ethics compared to shit show that is dota. However there are some bad things about the Riot show like patch schedule and forced meta maybe management of employees are included here but its the US so I can't talk about that. Riot actually has relatively healthy scene while there are some missteps its comparatively very good compared to issues we have seen in other esports. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/skins/star-guardian-2016#guardiansFP | ||
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phyvo
United States5635 Posts
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sung_moon
United States10110 Posts
On September 20 2016 07:34 Gahlo wrote: Good lord this page, they went all out. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/skins/star-guardian-2016#guardiansFP Sailor Mars was always the best. | ||
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
Please guys, tell this man how foolish he is. | ||
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killerdog
Denmark6522 Posts
On September 20 2016 13:58 GhandiEAGLE wrote: Lord Tolkien is trying to tell me that $75 for Mechs vs Minions is anything but an absolute steal for that price. Please guys, tell this man how foolish he is. Did you tell him that it comes with ONE HUNDRED minions? | ||
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