Laziness on Riot or just hate?

Pixel Bukkake·7/25/2014, 11:36:03 PM·1 votes·2,481 views

Oki Riot I'm starting to really get upset with you guys and actually quite offended because in hardly any of your videos you put in LMQ are they not on the same Level as everyone else? What is the reason behind this is it because you guys are too lazy to get a translater or something because this is complete discrimination to LMQ you interview every team after their games except LMQ you have interviewed them only a handful of times. To me I find this quite racist because it seems because they are a full chinese team you don't want them here and this is your way of showing that. I'm very offended because every team gets their say so in videos except LMQ in almost all your videos even your most recent one this needs to change. you cant just keep leaving out the best team in NA because they are chinese. Doubt most people will agree with me on this but lets be real we need fairness and you

15 Comments

RiotCedriel7/26/2014, 4:33:50 AM10 votes

I'm not sure what I expected when I read the title of this thread, but what have we as Riot done to warrant accusations of racism or hate out of the blue like this? Do you feel that it's a more effective way of getting our attention / an answer to your query, or do you genuinely believe that we as a company would want to sabotage an LCS team?

Sir ArmaMalum7/25/2014, 11:55:05 PM7 votes

Why don't we ask the team themselves if they are feeling discriminated against or otherwise offended before we start laying down claims of racism and hate. Are there any tweets, social media or other areas we can confirm that LMQ feels left out?

Orian Grao7/26/2014, 12:50:02 AM2 votes

Before accusing RIOT of being lazy about translators, maybe you should ask why a translator is needed in the first place. LMQ plays in the NA server, they should at least put an effort to actually use the language of the server. If anyone is being lazy, it is them.

And before you say it, no I don't have any prejudice here. I actually really enjoy watching LMQ play, just like I enjoy watching SKT T1 and all the other teams in the LCS, OGN, etc. I just feel it is a little disrespectful that a team representing the American server can't actually speak English.

As for the interviews, have you considered the players them selves don't like speaking publicly? They are from a different culture, maybe RIOT is simply being respectful of the Team's wishes. Don't jump to conclusions or make inflammatory insinuations so foolishly.

12tales7/26/2014, 1:28:07 AM1 votes

Including a translator would drastically increase the amount of time you'd have to spend on an interview to cover the same ground. Maybe Riot's decided that they don't have the time between matches to interview LMQ adequately, or don't want all of their interviews with LMQ to be super shallow and brief.

If you really want to see them interviewed, check out ongamers.

Also, [obligatory 'That's Racist!' meme]

PhoenixUnreal7/27/2014, 11:41:58 PM1 votes

****Quite honestly, I feel that it's disrespectful, maybe even discriminatory, that they came here. They said that they "expect[ed] to end up near the top," which to me sounds like they assume that our region isn't as high performing as LPL, GPL, or OGN. The fact that a team can migrate to NA because they assume that we will not challenge them as thoroughly slightly offends me. Many people look down on North America as the slum of pro gaming, and I do not think we deserve that. We work hard, and I support Dignitas, Cloud9, Team Solo Mid, CounterLogic Gaming, CompLexity, Curse, and even Evil Geniuses.

I do not support LMQ as much as others in NA because it feels like they have no loyalty to their own nationality. Appearances mean a great deal subconciously to us as a species, and it doesn't make a team look good when they drop out of their league to join ours.

**You may ask: Why support EG then? ** The answer is that the LCS is actually a joint operation. EULCS and NALCS are two halves of the same coin; same rules, same governing body, same fans.

If TSM or any other LCS team moved to another league, I would give them the same treatment; it has nothing to do with country of origin, rather, everything to do with loyalty
to country of origin.

Also, attacking Riot is unwarranted and ineffective. They're great guys and they work hard to get a game to us that we can enjoy.