Riot Responds to LCS streaming Policy
http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1sa59j/update_on_the_lcs_streaming_policy/
Update on the LCS Streaming Policy (self.leagueoflegends)
submitted 16 minutes ago by RiotMagus
Hey everyone, There’s been a ton of discussion around our LCS team contracts, which stipulated active LCS players couldn’t stream a variety of other games. First, background on why we did this: there’ve been instances of other game studios trying to buy access to League fans by using (or trying to use) LCS teams/players to promote their competing games on stream. The way we chose to deal with this was clearly an overreach. It hit our goal of preventing companies from advertising through LCS players, but it also encroached on pros’ ability to have fun and entertain viewers during long Challenger queues – and we realize that’s not cool. After reading all of your comments and having a LOT of internal debate over the last 24 hours, we’re going to be changing the LCS team requirement to something that more closely matches our intent. While under contract to the LCS, teams and players can’t accept sponsorship from other game companies to promote other titles. Besides that, they are free to stream any games they want. I'll be hanging around to answer questions if you guys have any. Thanks for helping us make a better decision on this.
Thank you for responding to your community and deciding a better course of action to prevent what you actually wanted to stop in the first place. Next time can you please post an official response to your own forums (at least the community beta?)
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