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So can we all agree that Riot favors E-sports moreso than common fans?

GenoXx·11/3/2015, 9:18:18 PM·1 votes·186 views

Just wondering because it sure seems like it's favoritism on their part.

Examples: They feature games from higher Elos. Wouldn't it be fair to feature a random game that goes on? Not every player can reach the Platinum and Master tiers. Why is it that they are the only ones featured? Another example is how they only make skins for high elo people. I find this extremely unfair. If a person wants a skin from the Victorious skinline, it should be available for anyone willing to pay for it.

And the most recent one where they put of the Harrowing Holiday specials this year because of worlds. It's kinda pointless to make harrowing and legacy skins available after the week of Halloween. It sure does seems like favoritism. I think it would be great not only feature high elo people everytime some new perso decides to try out league. Only to be shown "How great tier1 elo is."

2 Comments

MisterHealYoGirl11/3/2015, 9:38:16 PM1 votes

Games from higher ELOs are more likely to be enjoyable to watch. Nobody wants to watch fifty minutes of Master Yi trying to solo baron; the strategic play at higher skill levels is just more fun to watch. Same reason that more people watch the Super Bowl than Pop Warner.

I think you meant 'make skins only for high ELO players', not 'only make skins for high ELO players'. I think it's nice, actually, I'm bronze as hell, but I think that if people have put in the effort to be higher ranked than me, they deserve some kind of reward. Since the entire rest of the League system is based around spending money on the game, I like that Riot is making skins available regardless of your capacity to buy them. The point of the Victorious skin line is that they're detached from the rest of the system: they can ONLY be attained by skill, and I think that that's a good thing.

I have more mixed feelings about the Harrowing fiasco. I think it's odd to divorce seasonal events from their seasons, but considering that the alternative was to either diminish the importance of the world championships or to have the Harrowing be completely ignored, moving the online event is a lot easier than moving the physical one. Overall, I think that there were some major failures of communication (Riot could have been a lot more specific about what was going on with the Harrowing, and the event has been somewhat disjointed so far), but the idea wasn't awful.

TurquoiseYoshi11/3/2015, 9:44:39 PM1 votes

Because nobody really wants to watch a random match. I want to watch a match where I can improve my skills, not a match where I can make myself feel better that everyone does what I do wrong.

30% of the playerbase is not a small portion, nor is it too small for a ranked reward. It's called a reward because you have to earn it with your own time and skill.

The Harrowing I can kinda understand, but we still got Shadow and Fortune, and we got bios for the Shadow Isles champions, as well as the Shadow Isles themselves.

There isn't a ton of favoritism other than some esports stuff, but even there, you can technically avoid it altogether if you want and still have a full League experience.