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So here it begins.....
I am part of the influence of current LoL boom bandwagon that is happening in Korea. (I don't live in Korea tho :/ )
The Korean server of LoL launched slightly less than 1 year now.
There is a huge community of people who play LoL, It is the most played game in Korea. This is noticable if you go to "PC bang", you will see group of 5 friends playing LoL, from middle school to university students. It's safe to say that this is just as big as Starcraft:BW was since the whole gaming network is covering and trying to make this the mainstream.
Example, OGN which is the korea's biggest gaming network that has hosted tournaments and televised SC:BW games for a decade before it switched to LoL.
This network is on full force to make LoL the next SC:BW.
It doesn't shock me that some of current pros playing SC2 are transitioning to LoL.
(Go read Slayers shinenigaz in the SC2 main forum)
This game is fun and not lonely to play.
I am happy this game is getting big in Korea. There was literally no game that was catching Korea's long lost e-sport SC:BW nostalgia. I am pleased that korea is once rejuvanized by LoL.
To be honest, I always thought LoL was a bad game and chidish and lacked skills. This is because I was a Dota player for a long time. However, after trying the game for a day and getting used to the differences, this game is super fun and competitive.
I won't go into LoL vs Dota but, as of now, Koreans are joining LoL and I am one of them. The community base in Korea is growing more and more as people pick up and spread through word of mouth (Korea is a small country you know !)
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Pretty much everything you said here I completely agree with, from the Korean LoL BOOM, to my satisfaction of it replacing BW as the next big esport (instead of SC2), and how just like you, I was once a DotA maniac who thought LoL was just a dumbed down noober-version of DotA, and was proven very wrong after a bit of trying it out.
I haven't followed any gaming event in the past years like I use to in BW, until I started watching the OGN The Champions and the World Finals.
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LoL is a good example of accessibility done right - much like UMvC3, which let terrible players feel like they're in control through a much easier combo system. And like Marvel, the easier system hides exquisitely deep gameplay at high levels. Pretty easy to see LoL as a noob game (or to see UMvC3 as a noob successor to Marvel 2), but when you really play both games, you find out quickly how wrong that perspective is.
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This thread hurts me to see, but it's correct; SC2 is a huge step backwards. The lack of support interface-wise killed it versus the awesome job Riot did.
I didn't even play BW, but I can see the insane awesomeness that it once was, and I wish I had the chance to really get into it.
GG SC2? 
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United States37500 Posts
On October 18 2012 04:11 reikai wrote:This thread hurts me to see, but it's correct; SC2 is a huge step backwards. The lack of support interface-wise killed it versus the awesome job Riot did. I didn't even play BW, but I can see the insane awesomeness that it once was, and I wish I had the chance to really get into it. GG SC2?
No one sensible in this subforum would predict or even hope that SC2 would falter. For now, the movement of 3 ex-SC2 players from a defunct team indicates nothing about how HotS will pan out.
What the cold, hard truth is, is that Blizzard needs to pick things up. Not even from an eSports perspective (what is very important to most of us at TL) but the basics like interface, networking, and reliability.
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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.
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It's so great, LoL is fucking great and the scene has some huge possibilities as an e-sport. It's also the only game where non koreans could become serious contenders and maybe build a really international competitive scene.
But there is something that is getting boring. It's sad and ridiculous to see LoL players in the SC2 general trying to argue that LOL is better than SC2. I don't understand why people feel the urge to make it seems like the game they play is "the" better game. I'm glad LoL is getting bigger and bigger, but let's not start getting cocky please. There is enough place for various games in the e sport familly.
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Too bad that Riot lacks any ethics whatsoever.
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If only TL backed up LoL in the same way as Koreans do:<
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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.
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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
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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.
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On October 18 2012 04:14 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +On October 18 2012 04:11 reikai wrote:This thread hurts me to see, but it's correct; SC2 is a huge step backwards. The lack of support interface-wise killed it versus the awesome job Riot did. I didn't even play BW, but I can see the insane awesomeness that it once was, and I wish I had the chance to really get into it. GG SC2? No one sensible in this subforum would predict or even hope that SC2 would falter. For now, the movement of 3 ex-SC2 players from a defunct team indicates nothing about how HotS will pan out. What the cold, hard truth is, is that Blizzard needs to pick things up. Not even from an eSports perspective (what is very important to most of us at TL) but the basics like interface, networking, and reliability.
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.
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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.
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On October 18 2012 04:47 NeoIllusions wrote:Show nested quote +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
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On October 18 2012 04:50 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +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?
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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?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=374749
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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?
CJ played in the OGN Summer tournament but didn't make it out of their ro16 groups. KT recently announced 2 teams about a week ago.
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