On September 22 2016 06:08 nafta wrote: That could easily be fixed with some format changes like only 1 split and a couple of more tournaments between the regions but Riot thinks that KR bopping kids would be worse.
This has always been the most backward thinking, IMO. If you're concerned about regional disparities in skill, isolating every region from each other competitively only serves to exacerbate that. Cross-contamination and exchange of information benefits weaker teams the most and the strongest teams the least, so if you're concerned about one region being vastly better than others, the best way to fix this issue is to simply let all the regions play each other more.
On September 22 2016 06:08 nafta wrote: That could easily be fixed with some format changes like only 1 split and a couple of more tournaments between the regions but Riot thinks that KR bopping kids would be worse.
This has always been the most backward thinking, IMO. If you're concerned about regional disparities in skill, isolating every region from each other competitively only serves to exacerbate that. Cross-contamination and exchange of information benefits weaker teams the most and the strongest teams the least, so if you're concerned about one region being vastly better than others, the best way to fix this issue is to simply let all the regions play each other more.
Except western teams don't give a shit since they only have to be best in their region to get that sick sponsorship $$$
I have to share these two bits from Day9's Mostly Walking series: Day9's rant about the item system in DotA 2, immediately followed by Bill explaining the history of Dota.
On September 22 2016 07:14 TheYango wrote: They would give more of a shit if they actually had to regularly compete with foreign teams to actually win anything and maintain visibility.
It's the isolation that promotes laziness and stagnation.
Obviously isolation just creates more of a difference over time (unless the game gets artificially dumbed down even more with patches) but we have had quite a lot of whining about koreans winning everything from casual viewers in league and just look back to wol sc2 lol (stopped watching after so can't comment if it stopped but highly doubt it). Riot has always been focused on that demographic so it makes sense on some level at least.
On September 22 2016 06:08 nafta wrote: That could easily be fixed with some format changes like only 1 split and a couple of more tournaments between the regions but Riot thinks that KR bopping kids would be worse.
This has always been the most backward thinking, IMO. If you're concerned about regional disparities in skill, isolating every region from each other competitively only serves to exacerbate that. Cross-contamination and exchange of information benefits weaker teams the most and the strongest teams the least, so if you're concerned about one region being vastly better than others, the best way to fix this issue is to simply let all the regions play each other more.
Except western teams don't give a shit since they only have to be best in their region to get that sick sponsorship $$$
Too bad there is barely any money in League in the west unless you got that VC caysh.
On September 22 2016 08:53 Eppa! wrote: Paladins is actually pretty fun though
I was following developement for a while because I really liked Smite and some of the HiRez personalities. Early on it was really neat and a very unique game but later on it felt like they started developing towards Overwatch, which is a bit sad. Still looks different enough to give a shot, though.
On September 22 2016 08:53 Eppa! wrote: Paladins is actually pretty fun though
I was following developement for a while because I really liked Smite and some of the HiRez personalities. Early on it was really neat and a very unique game but later on it felt like they started developing towards Overwatch, which is a bit sad. Still looks different enough to give a shot, though.
From the small bits I've seen, it looks incredibly like Overwatch
On September 22 2016 08:53 Eppa! wrote: Paladins is actually pretty fun though
I was following developement for a while because I really liked Smite and some of the HiRez personalities. Early on it was really neat and a very unique game but later on it felt like they started developing towards Overwatch, which is a bit sad. Still looks different enough to give a shot, though.
From the small bits I've seen, it looks incredibly like Overwatch
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